Thread by @GregoryMcKelvey

DSA being focused on Bernie Sanders presidential campaign is really harmful for a lot of chapters. Here in the south it’s really getting in the way of important work we needed to be doing. It’s just frustrating that everyone thinks of us as a Bernie org.

Being thought of as the Bernie organization could be cool in the places that being DSA most of its money but not in the places where capitalism and white supremacy are having the greatest impact on peoples lives.

*bring*

Like it’s helpful in cities like NY or Philly or LA I guess. And in small towns where they are just looking for something to do I see the benefit. In Portland, DSA is doing so much that if doesn’t impact them. But in the south, this shit hurts.

We are trying to build and reach out to our community which frankly does not support Bernie Sanders. National doesn’t seem to care how awk it is for us to try and build with advocates in our area when they think of us as Bernie Bros.

Not just that, but now the Bernie Supporters continue to flock to our organization viewing it as a home for their politics which is not the demographic we are trying to build in Atlanta.

We have a lot of work to do in relation to freedom of choice, criminal reform, immigration, healthcare, ecosocialism and so much more. Now we show up to that and people write us off as the Bernie Bros. Having an influx of Bernie people joining doesn’t help either.

And I say all this as someone who was a delegate for Bernie and dedicated 2 years of my life to him. It’s possible I’ll vote for him but we need to be organizing around issues right now not people. I’m so fucking frustrated.

I have so much work to do as chair and I’m so fucking sick of hearing “but what about Bernie?”

Is Bernie even coming to Georgia? God damn.

Also, I should disclose that I prefer Warren. I don’t think she’s an anti capitalist but I think she will be a better president. I don’t vote for president for purity or I would vote for the communist party every time.

Radical change doesn’t come from the White House. So radicals shouldn’t be focused on getting a man in there.

Yet, it is important to realize that presidential politics is where most people engage in politics so I’m not saying we should ignore it. Maybe a grading system?

Now all the white dudes in my mentions saying it’s actually great for any org to have an influx of white people not realizing what that does for marginalized people. White leftists are racist too.

Oh hey and just to piss y’all off some more. Believing that presidential politics is radical is what makes YOU a liberal. Also, focusing on a presidential candidate isn’t radical. Wypipo I swear.