People keep saying this but the "extreme left" in the US isn't even that extreme. One one side you have conspiracy theory poisoned neo-Nazis and Christian nationalists and on the other... people who want affordable healthcare.
She does seem like an actual leftist I'll give you that. But rhetoric doesn't count for much, what has she actually done that's radical?
I can only judge from her Wikipedia page but under political positions it says "Her platform has included universal healthcare, stronger tenant protections, funding programs for children instead of funding war, abolishing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), banning large super PACs from elections, and prohibiting members of Congress from trading stocks." And she opposes Israel. I'm sorry but that doesn't read as extreme to me. Maybe abolishing ICE.
What has AOC done that's "far left," or Mamdani? They can say what they want but none of these people actually threaten the status quo of American capitalism and imperialism, which (in my mind) anything worth calling "far left" must do to be valid. Bear in mind the standard on the other side is an attempted coup with a gallows on the Capitol lawn. BLM at least took over a police station and started a separatist autonomous zone. That's what "far left" looks like. Not "we need rent control."
Actual far left movements like BLM and Occupy get co-opted and undermined before they even have a chance of affecting change. If any of these people even so much as glance towards the White House they'll be crucified by the Democrats, because the biggest problem with leftism in the US is that the only even ostensibly "leftist" party with any real power hates the left almost as much as the right does.
I wish the DSA luck but I expect absolutely nothing of value from them. Wake me up when they're hanging billionaires from lampposts and then tell me about the "extremism" on both sides.
Not unravelling. Refocusing. The peasant ideology will always dominate, until it takes the species down with it.
MAGA was a bubble that has just begun to pop. The new bubble is the Democratic Socialist Party taking over NYC and soon the Senate and Congress.
The vacillation between extremes, with an apathetic middle who trudges on in dejection of all sides but their own comfortable convenient complicity.
People keep saying this but the "extreme left" in the US isn't even that extreme. One one side you have conspiracy theory poisoned neo-Nazis and Christian nationalists and on the other... people who want affordable healthcare.
What do you think of Darializa Avila Chevalier‘s rhetoric? She’s very extreme.
She does seem like an actual leftist I'll give you that. But rhetoric doesn't count for much, what has she actually done that's radical?
I can only judge from her Wikipedia page but under political positions it says "Her platform has included universal healthcare, stronger tenant protections, funding programs for children instead of funding war, abolishing US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), banning large super PACs from elections, and prohibiting members of Congress from trading stocks." And she opposes Israel. I'm sorry but that doesn't read as extreme to me. Maybe abolishing ICE.
What has AOC done that's "far left," or Mamdani? They can say what they want but none of these people actually threaten the status quo of American capitalism and imperialism, which (in my mind) anything worth calling "far left" must do to be valid. Bear in mind the standard on the other side is an attempted coup with a gallows on the Capitol lawn. BLM at least took over a police station and started a separatist autonomous zone. That's what "far left" looks like. Not "we need rent control."
Actual far left movements like BLM and Occupy get co-opted and undermined before they even have a chance of affecting change. If any of these people even so much as glance towards the White House they'll be crucified by the Democrats, because the biggest problem with leftism in the US is that the only even ostensibly "leftist" party with any real power hates the left almost as much as the right does.
I wish the DSA luck but I expect absolutely nothing of value from them. Wake me up when they're hanging billionaires from lampposts and then tell me about the "extremism" on both sides.
Such radicalism never materializes from a vacuum. All extremes come as an iterative increment until a critical mass compels the middle over a ledge.
Nothing happens without mobilizing and catalyzing the middle. All “sides” know this.