Why do Republicans insist on making DSA sound so fucking cool?
I came into the comments to see if this was satire. That’s a fucking great ad for DSA.
Saw an attack ad against Abdul here in MI yesterday, that honestly made me want to vote even more for him by pointing out how ‘dangerous’ he is to establishment.
“The children these days are still afraid of the communism, yeah? Just paint them as commies, that’ll solve 'em.”
The majority of people are afraid of things they are told to be afraid of. Education dispels the fear. That’s why the GOP loves the poorly educated.
lol there’s been a couple of great interviews with the leaders of the DSA attempting to explain their policies
“oh no we don’t mean that we mean, err something, err, whatever i can make up right now”
at least try to make the policies on your website make some sense so your people don’t look like clowns when asked about them
I think DSA spokespersons candidates like Mamdani have actually done a wonderful job at explaining their policies, idk what you’re on about.
ah yes let’s just look at that record of socialist wins when they’re not masquerading as regular dems
oh is a big fat zero
that’s the real threat of a good time we’re looking forward to
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
Even for people that think that they are against democratic socialism, there’s no way they read this and think that’s a bad thing. This reads like something that’s used to promote DSA rather than fear monger. It’s out of character for Republicans to slander something so softly without any sort of hate rhetoric or other blasphemy.
Really, who can read this and say, yea, I want the power to stay with the wealthy and not be with the people other than wealthy people? I would have guessed this were satire if I just saw it in passing.
Maybe they’re actually trying to boost it because they think it will create a civil war among democrats? The same way dems boosted Trump over previous conservatives.
Oh man, I hope they do the hell out of this.
Feel free to listen to their Fox News attacks on AOC. Their audience has been trained to automatically hate her and anything she does, so they can present her platform straightforwardly and without fear of losing their audience.
Hassan Piker is another guy that often gets criti-praised.
Tineye only reveals a couple of hits on imagur. This isn’t an official image coming from the Republican party, but a mock-up done privately.
Anyone thinking this is real (“dOnt TheaTeN mE wiTh a gOOd tIMe”, “They’re trying to scaremonger”) is a fucking moron. Republicans are evil and often stupid, but not stupid enough to word an ad like that. They’re well aware that “corporations and wealthy owners” has a negative connotation and “workers and the public” has a positive one. Please be more skeptical.
You heard Mike Johnson campaigning for the DSA in front of the whole country, right? Using scary Boogeyman language to describe perfectly reasonable and honorable things?
No, I didn’t hear that. Did he try to spin it in his favor with his word choice? Because that would be the opposite of what this post is doing.
No, he literally spelled out their platform, eXcEpT HE juSt pREtenDeD iT sOUnDEd sPpPpooOoOooOOky!
Yeah it’s highly satirical, but I don’t doubt some of MAGA will think it legit. How they react though…
I know a lot of conservatives because I work at a national company and have to deal with these cucks. But this message would absolutely align with them and make them pro Democratic socialists.
They aren’t friends with billionaires. They’re complaining about gas prices and food prices like all of us. They are sick of our taxes going to war.
“…replace capitalism with democratic socialism…”
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
The details are academic unless we can get them in power. One step at a time. We all need to pull together.
I have no idea why they just don’t call themselves ‘FDR Democrats.’
If you use the term ‘Socialist’ you give the GOP an easy way to attack. “Socialist? You mean like North Korea?”
Because it doesn’t matter. They’ll just call you commies anyway. They even call neolibs commies. Words don’t mean anything to these people and the goal is the same regardless of what you call it. They don’t want us taking their power away from them. They’ll do whatever they need to do to stop that.
First off, FDR’s New Deal was notorious for excluding non-white folks, and even gave rise to the racist practice of redlining. As such, this name would be a total non-starter in DSA circles.
But yes, I have also wondered whether a different name would be better at attracting new adherents to the cause. My thought was perhaps ‘Social Democrats’, since 1) most DSA electeds platform on soc dem policies, and 2) it would avoid the scary ‘s’ word altogether.
However, I raised this in an online discussion with a DSA member the other day and he said that social democracy is basically the foundation that the future transition to socialism builds off from. So it wouldn’t make sense to call themselves something else because a socialist replacement of capitalism through democratic means remains their ultimate goal.
The DSA dosent even know what it wants? They’re literally campaigning and endorse capitalist who owns rental rental properties, but won’t endorse actual socialist.
Well, here’s my take: I don’t know for 100% sure exactly what the US looks like if all the DSA goals are met. But I know what it looks like now, and I know that at least MOST of what they’re proposing sounds pretty damned useful.
If DSA can win, I suspect some of the more fringe stuff might not make it as-is. But the things most people actually support - wealth equality, social safety nets, universal healthcare, livable wages and mayve even universal income… we can agree on enough basics that I feel confident we can work out the rest.
Yes
Yes! Yes! A million times yes!
Yes, but message is too stuffy. Just say,
“Billionaires, who are predators, stole the world. They made life terrible for everyone without a private jet and now we want to take it back for all of you, because we are also you.”
It’s pretty clear that they, whom ever that might be, is already trying to split the democratic vote. Stay focused my people.
If this is real, then its the best advertisement the DSA could have
Yes. This is what I want.
