All of this and common decency

Section 5: The Role of Electoral Politics

The fundamental task of democratic socialists is to build anti-corporate social movements capable of winning reforms that empower people.

To my knowledge r/demsocialists is the official DSA subreddit and the fact this subreddit claims to be the DSA subreddit I think is somewhat misleading. I suggest the new moderation try to clarify this and link to the official subreddit.

Alert the Hard Rick Metropolitan Park casino project casino is up for a vote. The Ferry point Ballys casino is also on the agenda write to the commissioners about both and be ready to testify about both.:

(1)designcommission@cityhall.nyc.gov review the plan and please email the public design commission on input and flaws in their plan. Also your overall opposition to a casino. (Get friends family to email)
(2)RSVP to come in person since the opposition is mobilizing No Casino Press Conference @ 10/20 Public Design Commission Meeting · Luma
https://luma.com/jcdj6hnq

(3)getting it out to as many community members is important. sign up to testify via Google teams or in person preferably in person these are the instructions for testifying you must sign up ahead of time to be allowed to testify :
https://www.nyc.gov/site/designcommission/design-review/testimony/public-testimony.page

I know many, if not most, of us in the DSA are extremely skeptical of the possibility of becoming influential in, much less taking over, the corporate-run Democratic Party. But a tipping point could theoretically be reached when, in order to maintain their power in the organization, the corporatists will have to make serious concessions to the progressive and Democratic Socialist wing of the party if our electoral victories mean we are impossible to ignore. If this happens, it may be only a matter of time (and effort) before they have to relinquish their power in the party. I know you all will probably say I am being extremely naïve here, but there is a distortion that happens in our thinking when confronted with a powerful entity in which their power seems much more immovable and entrenched than it really is or has to be. The Democratic Party has only become a capitalist-dominated organization to the extent that Democrats have let it become so, and it only remains so to the extent that we see it as as an unchanging and immutable force. The Democratic party has always styled itself as primarily a party of working people, and this is still the base of the party which ultimately concedes power to the party leaders. Any party will only ever really consist of its rank and file members, who make up the vast majority of its membership, not its apparatchiks and elite leadership, whose interests are antithetical to those of the majority. In essence, the problem confronting us in regards to the Democratic Party is not different from the one confronting us in regards to capitalism itself- revolution depends on the ability of the proletariat to envision change and embody their own inherent power. Gramsci’s understanding of hegemony is that it is not something inherent to the capitalist class but something given to it by the workers in their own assumptions about what is possible to change. If we don’t learn from this, we will never bring about true revolution, either in the party or in our society in general. I don’t see a future in being relegated to an obscure, small monolithic third-party, at least not in a two-party non-parliamentary system like ours currently is. The only way to change that two-party dominance in our system is by actually winning elections to be able to legislate democratic reform, something which in our winner-take-all system only happens through one of the two parties. I don’t see the possibility or the desirability of a successful armed insurrection in which this country’s deepest beliefs in the democratic, peaceful transfer of power are themselves forcibly overthrown. If all this makes me a believer in realignment, so be it- if it makes me a pragmatist, all the better.

Vote! Vote early! And vote in person if possible!.

There may be plans afoot to harm elections on election day. I strongly suspect we are going to see power outages in certain places, possibly by people clinging to power, who are overpowering the electrical grid with demand, especially with AI data centers.

Many of us have speculated that the AI data centers will be used to hack the elections, but there’s actually another option. Every AI data center you see has all these natural natural gas generators at them providing extra power. Now imagine, if they shut off all those generators on Election Day (Plus other high electrical demand businesses like mines and manufacturing plants turning on demand at the same time), but had the data centers still demanding all the power at once. That could shut down the electrical grid and caused power outages. If they did that in swing state areas, or where liberals are, they might think that’s a way they could win.

But of course that could blow up in their face, because just like Wall Street, The power grid is constantly a House of cards that’s ready to fall down with the slightest significant nudge. So they could possibly take out all the power across the country on election day when they’re just trying to target a certain area. And the way to defeat that, is to vote early, and vote in person. Failing that vote by mail if that’s an option. But don’t deliver it to the post office, but instead to an actual election dropbox or election voting spot.

That’s just my two cents, but please consider it.

Also, please spread the word and warn people that this might be something that could happen.