Democracy

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

H. L. Mencken,

City Journal’s Stu Smith wrote an excellent piece about the recently updated DSA platform. It’s as extreme as one would suspect of a group that still believes that true socialism has yet to be tried.

Smith wrote that its radicalism “gives a glimpse into how the equivalent of the DSA’s board of directors—some of whom have appeared to moderate—actually think about politics.”

They explicitly want to overthrow the Constitution to create what they call “real democracy.”

This isn’t the old “free and fair regular elections” democracy that most Americans have grown fond of, it’s more of the “two wolves and a sheep deciding what’s for dinner” type democracy that the Founders fretted about.

To summarize, the platform called for replacement of “the president and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress,” the abolition of prisons, the Department of War, the Electoral College, and amnesty for all illegal aliens.

The Democratic Socialists of America Just Adopted a Radical New Platform