I think the “Democratic Party” is a brand on the surface, and a donor base at it’s core.
The core can’t be co-opted by DSA. If they’re successful in co-opting the brand, the corporate donors will leave.
The brand might be able to be co-opted, though. I dislike the brand as much as any other Hexbear, but other people do like it (🙄), so it isnt the worst electoral strategy to leverage it until it starts to crumble. Even if most of the donor base leaves, there will still be a fair amount of momentum left for “DSA Dems” to regroup and remain an electoral force, not to say it would be easy.
Behind the scenes, the reason DSA needs the Dems is because of all the data they have on voters and the infrastructure that comes with that data. The issue is they’re not building their own infrastructure to hold onto that data. If the uniparty finds a way through laws or other means to strip DSA from using it, the electoral strategy is pretty much gone.
entryism as heist, not as takeover, might have some legs.
the uniparty uses ballot access to control 3rd parties so if you want to establish a record of governance you have to waste a bunch of effort getting on the ballot at all or you can get 40% of the vote for free by associating with a bourgeois party and then Lieberman it.
I think the “Democratic Party” is a brand on the surface, and a donor base at it’s core.
The core can’t be co-opted by DSA. If they’re successful in co-opting the brand, the corporate donors will leave.
The brand might be able to be co-opted, though. I dislike the brand as much as any other Hexbear, but other people do like it (🙄), so it isnt the worst electoral strategy to leverage it until it starts to crumble. Even if most of the donor base leaves, there will still be a fair amount of momentum left for “DSA Dems” to regroup and remain an electoral force, not to say it would be easy.
Behind the scenes, the reason DSA needs the Dems is because of all the data they have on voters and the infrastructure that comes with that data. The issue is they’re not building their own infrastructure to hold onto that data. If the uniparty finds a way through laws or other means to strip DSA from using it, the electoral strategy is pretty much gone.
entryism as heist, not as takeover, might have some legs.
the uniparty uses ballot access to control 3rd parties so if you want to establish a record of governance you have to waste a bunch of effort getting on the ballot at all or you can get 40% of the vote for free by associating with a bourgeois party and then Lieberman it.
The DSA is building this infrastructure. Their National Tech Committee has people working on it.
Good to hear. I’ve been trying to spread the word for a while.