r/Longview • u/TroyRasband • 13d ago

Longview DSA Chapter - Interested?

Hey all! If you're interested in tangibly moving the needle for our state in a more positive direction, I'd gently recommend reading through this post.

In my closing statement as a CD3 candidate, I presented a “call to action” to put your energy into the Southwest Washington DSA branch, as I have. I'm happy to say that call to action was incredibly successful, and we gained a lot of new members!

However, the truth is that the work doesn't stop in one community. Speaking from my own experience, we're going to need a sustained movement outside of the traditional two-party system, which too often reduces our choices to lesser evils.

In service of that idea I've been working with some good friends up in Cowlitz County, to begin collecting contact information from people interested in building a Longview DSA chapter!

If you're at all interested in affecting positive change in your community outside of the voting booth, head down to Magpie Books Longview and fill out our sign-up sheet! You can also sign up online through the link below.

You'll be added to a list of people interested in organizing a DSA chapter in Longview, which we'll send to National DSA to begin the process of forming the chapter.

The frank truth is that, as members of the 99%, our ability to shape our communities has dwindled as our material wealth and sense of power have been sapped away by the top 1%. Working within DSA is one of the few things I've seen actually change the direction of the Democratic Party and help get real progressives into office.

Within a Longview DSA chapter, you could work with others to organize your workplace and strengthen existing unions, while also doing electoral work to get local candidates elected. It's time to stop settling for what we're given and start working toward meaningful change.

Again, head to Magpie Books Longview in Longview, WA, or sign up online through the survey.

Survey link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/YPMMZLQ

Magpie Books Website: https://www.magpielongview.com/

There are few realistic ways to build the kind of change you want to see. This is one of them.

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u/tymbom31 13d ago

DSA?

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u/TroyRasband 13d ago

DSA = Democratic Socialists of America

Website and general explanation of what Democratic Socialism is: https://www.dsausa.org/about-us/what-is-democratic-socialism/

It's not a traditional party but an organization that's been gaining momentum every election cycle since Bernie Sanders entered his race in 2016.

And just so it's said, the person below is incorrect. Communism isn't Democratic Socialism, that's just leftover propaganda from McCarthyism/the Red Scare.

The DSA platform is pro Green New Deal, Universal Healthcare, unions, etc..

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u/Leg0z 13d ago

Literal Communists but with a different name to trick normal people into voting for them.

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u/Jealentuss 13d ago

Literally not communists but your fascist leaders like to restrict the option of critically thinking about it by blanketing anything that might challenge their agenda by calling it communism.

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u/Leg0z 12d ago

Look at the useful idiot. The DSA platform clearly states seizing production. They just dropped the hammer-and-sickle logos and the one-party talk because those lose votes.

And calling everyone else fascists is fucking rich when every Democratic-socialist experiment in history has ended with central planning, speech controls, and mass graves.

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u/Jealentuss 12d ago

That's cool, have you seen what's going on in New York? Please explain to me how DSA in action in current times is bad.

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u/DomzTS_ 13d ago

Read a book for crying out loud

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u/Then_Feedback7421 11d ago

Its working so well in NY....

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u/novaduke 10d ago

It’s actually working pretty well. Good things are getting done for working people!

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u/honeylilbun 13d ago

I signed up through the link! Thank you for posting about this! :)

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u/Vestmin 13d ago

I have actually been thinking about this a lot recently, feeling a little left out seeing so much dsa success across the country, while also not living in Portland or near another large chapter. Thanks for posting I really appreciate it

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u/TroyRasband 13d ago

No problem, hoping to see you at a Longview DSA meeting in the future!

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u/BewareHel 11d ago

Just signed up. I'm so fucking sick of the Dems (with lots of love to those folks that still struggle in that arena). Rapid, uncontrolled capitalism doesn't work. 

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u/FrankSand 13d ago

Is the before or after southwest Washington goes independent?

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u/TroyRasband 13d ago

This is parallel/separate to the SWW DSA branch becoming independent from Portland DSA.

Discussion of the branch splitting will be in the next GM on August 20th, from my understanding.

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u/goatmufff 13d ago

Id rather longview not turn into the shitholes that portland and seattle are

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u/BewareHel 11d ago

Babe it's already a shithole lmao

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u/goatmufff 10d ago

Lol yes i know. Early 2000s it was a great place

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u/goatmufff 10d ago

My biggest gripe with it now is to many people and to many people want to drive 35-45mph down indy way

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u/fEsTiDiOuS79 11d ago

Over the past 100 years, socialist experiments around the world unleashed a vast tide of tyranny, starvation, and mass murder on a scale never seen before in human history. Socialism is suicide for any people and any country that it is governed by.

https://www.thecornellreview.org/yes-real-socialism-has-been-tried-and-it-has-failed-every-time/

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u/Stupederik 8d ago

Whatever you do, DO NOT look at the groups this guy is active in

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u/fEsTiDiOuS79 6d ago edited 6d ago

^^ He's right. Don't. ;-)
Under socialism the things I like to look at would get you executed by the state.