They love to use that specific picture of him too. They probably think it makes him look angry and middle eastern. It caught his eyebrows at the perfect angry-looking angle.
Too bad for them he’s charismatic as fuck everywhere else. And, you know, does stuff to help people.
I am feeling pissed, and Mamdani is matching my feelings here.
That’s propaganda for you.
And most of that minority are going to end up liking the results of his actions as time goes on.
The propaganda is coming from the reader that failed to read beyond the headline and spread misinformation.
Hey boss, this poll says 60% of people support democratic socialists. How are we gonna reword this?
Boss: just flip the stat and make the sentence negative
Imagine reading the article instead of just the headline.
Imagine expecting me to look up an article from a screenshot.
You vastly underestimate how lazy I am.
True, parroting misinformation is much easier and more gratifying.
Currently socialism to these guys = Not having a corrupt government ran by special interest.
This is what they are afraid of. Not socialism coming to town but a government that actually works. The corrupt media is pushing bullshit to benefit the wealthy class so the people don’t come for their golden goose.
Many of the best things in America are Socialist: Public schools, libraries, museums, fire departments, municipal parks/playground, state parks, national parks, highways, bridges, monuments, etc.
Many people are far more afraid of the WORD Socialist, than actual Socialist concepts. Socialism and Communism have become far too closely associated, to the point of being synonyms, and the Dems have to change that perception.
That’s just one key part of their messaging game that they have take control of. The Conservative Propaganda Machine does a great job of not only controlling their own messaging, but the Dems have always allowed them to define Democratic concepts as well. It’s long past time when the Dems flip the tables, and take control of their own messaging, and start defining MAGA as treasonous, corrupt, racist, and pedophilic, and depraved.
They recognize the wave of wave of
democratic socialismsocial democrats and fight it tooth and nail.We do not have a free press.
I remember cnn the “commie news network” giving insanely hard interviews to Kamala, and then they have Mike Johnson on and say “some people have concerns over you saying the election was stolen” and he says “well there was substantial evidence for it and (conspiracy #1 2 and 3).” “interesting, people have been complaining about…”
0 push back, because they fell for the lie that the media is too hard on the right, so even bringing up that he thinks the election is stolen is being harsh somehow.
Why did you replace democratic socialism for social democrats?
Those are different things, and this is specifically about the DSA…
The DSA is a big tent within a big tent. The Democratic Party is essentially the opposition party to MAGA. If you’re against Trump then the Democratic Party is the only option you have.
That said, some of its platform ideas like universal healthcare and restoring consumer protections (so we control for things like crypto scams and surveillance pricing) are pretty popular. Abortion access enjoys a popularity of about 60%.
I don’t know the number of people who want a higher minimum wage, but it’s above majority, especially since the affordability crisis, and doubly so now that SNAP and Medicaid have been slashed.
Republican scaremongers call anything they don’t like communism or jihad because they only deal in blood libel and buzzwords. See They’re eating the dogs.
Also, evidently, bike lanes are woke and DEI.
Centrist Democrat scaremongers like to bring up the more left-leaning (actually left-leaning) platform issues like abolish the prisons and abolish the police.
These are serious issues, but even the DSA doesn’t pretend it will be easy to sell that to the general public. Before ICE we knew that police have become a nationwide problem, and the presence of law enforcement is more likely to turn a non-violent situation violent than it is de-escalate it. The John Oliver segment on Killology sheds light on the issue. Right now, that’s just been buried by the actions of ICE.
And we know that state and federal prisons have been squalid and inhumane for a long time, not improved at all since the rise of the prison industrial complex during the Reagan administration. Private prisons are even worse, and we’re now seeing the extreme version of that in immigrant detention centers by GEO Group and Core Civic.
But again, these are extreme issues and the Republicans are more likely to end birthright citizenship and women’s suffrage sooner than DSAs are going to make inroads in abolishing prisons and law enforcement.
Our society needs radical solutions to serious problems. I would focus on things like wealth taxes, Healthcare, and climate action, but I’m willing to risk breaking a few eggs to elect someone that wants to make an omlette.
How do you recognize the “big tent” leanings of the DSA when the Red Star Caucus seems to only grow with more influence and actively promote cutting ties with the democratic party. https://redstarcaucus.org/platform/
Red Star will Make DSA a political home for people radicalized by both the Trump administration and the failures of the Democratic Party, Solidify our position as a site of struggle for trans and immigrant communities under attack, Forge closer ties with abolitionist and anti-imperialist groups in the vanguard of the working class, Build an independent electoral base in the working class, Cut ties with the Democratic Party, and End empty endorsements that trail “left-wing” candidates.
What does it mean when Hasan Piker says China is the closest model we have to establishing socialism? https://www.instagram.com/reels/DRes2BNiiY3/ That’s not democracy at all. That’s not balanced working conditions. China is a lot of factories powering American capitalism.
These are the fringes of the DSA that seem to grow and drive me out.
Cutting ties with the Democratic party would be folly. After the Whigs perished and the Democratic Republicans split, we’ve not seen a third party overtake the principles, and that includes Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Progressives. That includes Ross Perot’s independent run, which was pretty darned convincing.
But as Alexandria Occasio Cortez observed, the Democratic party is struggling to raise the minimum wage. Long-term goals like abolishing prisons or abolishing the Senate are not likely to come up in the foreseeable future, even if they are able to secure the House, Senate, Presidency and SCOTUS. Heck, implementation of universal healthcare (which is popular throughout the US) is going to be a process that will take many years, even if it doesn’t get sabotaged by Republicans the way the ACA did.
Also, centrist Democrats have some extreme ideas. They generally want to do the things that serve their lobbyist masters, so maximizing intellectual property law, overregulating social media so that newer, smaller platforms can’t compete with the big ones in place, blocking kids from accessing the internet, deregulating landlords and so on.
And then there’s the stuff that the Republican party is actively working to do, like securing a permanent Republican majority across federal branches of government, hobbling elections, stripping non-whites of rights, stripping women of rights, making Protestant Evangelical Christianity a national religion, replacing income tax with tariffs and so on.
So no, I wouldn’t be too worried about the Red Star Caucus becoming too powerful and dominating US politics. And if, by some time-travel meddling, it did, it couldn’t possibly be worse than the mess we’re in right now.
The majority people believe in universal healthcare with government funding, but it’s pretty much 50/50 split if that means single payer or blend of private and public options or subsidies. https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/12/10/most-americans-say-government-has-a-responsibility-to-ensure-health-care-coverage/
Personally I’m for single payer, but I recognize that’s not a popular opinion and only represents the opinion of 30% of the USA.
This is why I find it hard to believe DSA is big tent. They have very specific ideas that they misrepresent their minority as a majority popular opinion (like single payer), and seem to have purity tests within their ranks. I don’t see big tent when I look at the DSA. There’s individuals within the group I like, but I’m realizing those are more exceptions. The Bernie Sanders era is gone, and I’m not sure where to find that kind of progressive political platform these days.
It’s frustrating hive mind tactic I see more online that if centrist democrats have a disagreement with the DSA, the DSA supporters cry that they don’t represent the majority. But look at the data and polling, and DSA doesn’t represent the majority either.
I don’t imagine the model we use for UH is going to be a wedge issue, at least not the way the Gaza genocide is. We don’t need something that is a perfect model for each and every citizen, just one that more or less works. ACA was a step forward, albeit was deliberately sabotaged by the Republican party from its inception.
In fact, most policies and social safety nets were not perfect from the beginning. The Constitution of the United States, itself, had to go through an Articles of Confederation phase.
What is going to be tricky is figuring out how to elect to power only people who want to govern in good faith, so that the institutions we erect can be corrected and improved with time. The big failing of feudalism is that the works of ten good kings can be reduced to ash by one tyrant, and even singular good kings are often the exception. As Jamille Bouie observes, we elected a madman knowing who he is and what his intentions are, and that raises some serious questions about the capacity of the American people to self govern, or if stable large human societies are even possible.
The Democratic Party is essentially the opposition party to MAGA.
They’re the opposition party to their own left flank. They don’t oppose MAGA.
I’m all for these changes - my fear is that a large population will want it all NOW! and if there isn’t significant change in 2 years then it must not work.
I’m afraid of this too. Biden was able to manage our economy’s recovery for COVID-19 better than any other industrialized nation in the world, and Americans voted him out based (allegedly) on the price of eggs and racism.
I no longer trust the US constituency to vote sensibly or responsibly. I don’t know, however, if they are just daft and vote on vibes, or if they’ve been effectively manipulated by the massive oligarch-sponsored far-right propaganda machine that dominates social media and television viewership. It could be a combination of both, but it doesn’t matter. Either way, it looks like the US is fucked, since we have no short-term countermeasure for either.
And to be fair, our ultra-wealthy are vastly rich, more so than the plutocracy has ever been in history. What they’re doing now to the US, they’ll be able to do to the rest of the developed world. And it’s already been softened up by decades of neoliberal policy.
There are clear signs that the mainline democratic party (the centrists or establishment Democrats) are captured and are a controlled opposition. Most recently Hakeem Jeffries in an interview threw progressives and DSA under a bus, implying that they are not welcome in the Democratic party because their platform is too extreme. And he counts as Democratic party leadership.
I’m afraid of this too. Biden was able to manage our economy’s recovery for COVID-19 better than any other industrialized nation in the world
As long as you’re a billionaire, sure.
Yoo hoo. Billionaires. We’re coming for you…
Btw most of that “unsupporters” are just indifferent, not even against.
I remember when the media was castigating the 10% or whatever of Bernie voters who said that they would vote for Trump if Bernie didn’t get nominated.
The framing was “There at X number of Bernie bros who are disloyal and will punish the Democrats by voting Trump” instead of “Bernie would take X number of voters from Trump”. Same story, but completely different spin.
We should all be going To our City meetings Pointing at New York and saying there is the proof you can get things done if you want to. Get things done or you’re gone.
Democratic Socialism is where citizens of democracies pay taxes to support their fire departments, military, health care systems etc. They still believe in free markets and your life improving if you work hard/go to school etc. It’s only corrupt politicians and the ignorant that equate social programs with Communism. Americans have been gaslighted by the financial elite to view social programs as a hand out, because the elite receive no profit from them.
mostly boomers, and older people answer polls anyways. they likely ask for political affiliation as a gauge.
To be fair, news media have been dicks before. In the cold war, we were so afraid of USSR that it was difficult to find news critical of the US and its government policies. We have the longstanding existence of an ideological enemy to blame for the push of our Overton window to the right. (Also a propaganda effort by the owner class to do that.)
I was taught about news literacy in the late 1980s in college Logic and Critical Thinking. It became useful in the aughts, when George W. Bush was trying to push going into Iraq after we were sore about the 9/11 attacks, and then later when they wanted to suppress the torture and PMCs and war crimes.
At the time we relied on foreign media, and turned to multiple sources to get the facts straight. In the Trump era, there’s a lot of independent media, sometimes getting raided by FBI or ICE.
When a news source injects a bit of spin in its stories, that’s the management of the news agency telling you who they are.
ETA: Musk buying up Twitter and Bezos directly intervening in the management of WaPo should serve as warnings that the owner class is actively trying to suppress free and fair journalism. We also used to have a lot more investigative stories than we do now.
Share links to stories that tell the truth.
ignoring it will not work, it will only make the tide rise against them while their heads are in the sand.
