Interesting. I’m kind of disappointing though that the socialist party in USA groups both democratic socialism and social democrats as they are pretty different things. But the party is maybe so small that it has to do that?
It’s actually not even a real political party, there is no socialist or social-democratic party in the US. IIRC DSA had ~12,000 members when Trump was first elected, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic (and after Bernie Sanders dropped out of the democratic primary) there were 70,000 - 80,000 members. Since Biden’s election, and the 06Jan21 attack there are almost 100,000 now.
Those numbers are still paltry compared to other political groups, but the DSA is trying to build from basically nothing completely grass-roots. They are trying to unify left-leaning groups including democratic socialists and social democrats.
yeah, that’s very little. Or interestingly it would be a lot in Norway. But in USA that is nearly nothing. The thing I don’t like about small parties though is that they make space for like crazy people and extremists.
But it would be pretty great if USA went away from the two-party system. Might help against the polarization a little.
