They keep knocking their heads against the wall
What’s now known as DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) was founded almost fifty years ago by Michael Harrington as the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee. Its goal has always been to transform the Democratic Party into a social democratic party.
Over the span of the fifty years some of us have said:
(a) hey, it’s irredeemably an establishment party;
(b) you’ll never be welcome within it;
(c) you have little chance of qualitatively transforming it.
An angry dispute erupted among House Democrats on Thursday, with centrist members blasting their liberal colleagues during a private conference call for pushing far-left views that cost the party seats in Tuesday’s election that they had worked hard to win two years ago.
The frustration was evident when moderates who won in Trump districts vented about how the use of some language on the left — such as the word “socialism” — is causing problems with those in middle America.
Even some liberals agreed with their moderate colleagues that the language being embraced by the far left needs to change. Rep. Jared Huffman (D-Calif.), a member of the Progressive Caucus who supports universal health care, said the party needs to stop using the word “socialist” altogether.
“I think Republicans did get some traction trying to scare people on this ‘socialist narrative.’ . . . That was a shrewd play from them,” he said in an interview. “These labels do distract us and divide us in unfortunate ways. . . . What’s the point of embracing a phrase like that? All you do is feed into these fears and bogus narratives.”
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Talking about transformation-not (on the other side) . . .
If the Republican Party now backs away from Trumpism, I could see Donald, Eric, Junior, and Ivanka feeling thwarted and starting a new party (the American Greatness Party). It could be the will of God. And I, personally, am praying for it.
