_WHAT’S HAPPENING_

The rapidly growing Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is preparing to release an updated policy platform that would dismantle and fundamentally reshape the US government and economy.

The formation of the most extreme agenda in modern American history comes at a time when DSA-endorsed candidates have scored major victories over longtime Democrat incumbents in New York, Colorado, and elsewhere.

_THE FACTS_

  • DSA’s new platform will call for eliminating the Senate entirely and creating an executive branch and judiciary subordinate to Congress.

  • The DSA's existing platform includes a 32-hour work week, a $30 minimum wage, canceling all student debt, eliminating cash bail, and universal rent control.

  • It also demands an "immediate end to all deportations" and extending voting rights to noncitizens and people with criminal convictions.

  • Socialist Melat Kiros, who just ousted a 15-term Democrat incumbent in Colorado, says the Green New Deal is merely a starting point for even more radical climate and energy policies.

  • Kiros also advocates for, as do most Democratic Socialists, abolishing ICE and establishing Medicare for All.

  • New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) remains the DSA's most prominent elected official.

  • Darializa Avila-Chevalier, a DSA-backed candidate in New York's 13th District, argues that border enforcement is rooted in "anti-Blackness and Islamophobia."

  • Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed endorsed "any and all efforts to get people out of jails and prisons" during a 2020 webinar with a prison abolition group.

  • After its recent primary wins, DSA proclaimed that "only socialism can solve decades of capitalist mismanagement in the US."

_OUR TAKE_

El-Sayed in Michigan wants to mass-release prisoners. Kiros in Colorado wants the $93 trillion Green New Deal to be just the beginning. And most of the rest want total amnesty for illegal migrants and an open border.

Make no mistake about what DSA is proposing. Every part of its platform either directly advocates for or gestures toward the complete dismantling of the American constitutional order. Abolishing the Senate, stripping the presidency of real power, and subordinating the judiciary to Congress collapses the separation of powers that has defined American governance for over two centuries.

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Samuel Wagner4 months ago

What is most concerning is that they seem to be either clueless about the outcome/ consequences of their policies or really do not care and only want the destruction of the USA. And of Western Europe.

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Mike Tucker4 months ago

Looking at the DSA candidates, they are mostly Muslim or Islam-supporting. This is how the Islamic invasion is taking hold, and the agenda that DSA is introducing is how the Islamic takeover will succeed.

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Laney B4 months ago

Astute point we cannot ignore

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Dennis Horak4 months ago

It's the frog in the kettle, with each new candidate and one small subtle systematic change after another, it would erode the constitution to almost to mean nothing. It also sounds like how Hitler came to power, one small change after another. And look what happened to Germany.

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Return to Faith4 months ago

Islam is truly as much of a threat as Marxism. Both must be opposed.

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Fred Scott4 months ago

Let's not sugarcoat this Socialism anymore; this is Communism straight from Marx and Lenin! And all those who vote for this are either involved in destroying this nation, or are just plain idiots who have little or no knowledge of history!

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Don G4 months ago

Destruction of our constitution.

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Jim Powers4 months ago

Destruction of freedom and the safety we now enjoy. If they have their way, the US will be reduced to ashes so quickly, the rest of the world won't know what happened. We won't be safe in our own homes, much less going out. Starvation will take hold as people eat from trash trucks (this happened in Venezuela).

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Jorge Rios4 months ago

They have been working on their numbers for decades. The time has come where they will now have the numbers, millions of young Americans brainwashed by their corrupted education system, and now millions of elligals from around the world to vote for their agenda.

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Dale Lytle4 months ago

Everything in their policies is done to destroy the United States. Certainly not to improve life for anyone except themselves. Yes equality for all at the bottom and riches for themselves at top. And death or imprisonment for anyone speaking against them. Dale Lytle

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Michael H.4 months ago

The IGNORANCE of the people behind this movement is the most dangerous part. They want the "Star Trek" vision of life that we are lightyears away from actually having. The younger generations supporting this push for socialism also have no memory of what life was like when the USSR was still around. They have had this euphoric image of a life without burden that will never exists. There is no "right way" to do socialism which is the common misconception of the indoctrinated.

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Paula Miller4 months ago

The gutting of the American constitution. We will lose all personal rights and be subjects of the state.

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Selene Kitchens4 months ago

Socialism has never worked in any country that used it or has it now. They are tearing USA down to gain power and we need to fight back. Now!! Maybe that is why America isn’t mentioned in the Bible ending at all. American isn’t America anymore. It became a third world godless country years before the final end times. Selene k.

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Nancy Donahue4 months ago

That is my fear also…

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Jim Ahern4 months ago

And here we go again looking at and framing this matter as it's just "politics as usual".. So first of all we should not remotely be giving any credence to that known as the DSA or any NGO or corrupt Politician associated with them. They are an anti-American and Foundationally antithetical smaller group of radical activists, plain and simple. Hence, by definition, Enemies of the State. That's all that should resonate folks. And they're being allowed to exist by hiding behind the very Constitution that they despise. Can you think of anything more ironic?? It's time to stop treating this as something to deal with on election day, that's not going to solve the problem. It's time for the Powers that Be, the Military/Guard and every American Citizen to sort this affair out head on. This go along to get along, business as usual bs doesn't cut it anymore, that's how we got here...

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Laney B4 months ago

Dismantling the Constitution and all founding principles of the greatest nation ever formed. Deluding the ignorant into believing they are "for the working people". They are for Elitist Power Structure.

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Stefan Cameron4 months ago

What's most concerning? Having to pick one thing of many concerning points, I'd have to say it's the changes to our Constitutional order. That's the end of any hope for liberty in the US, and in the world, right there.

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Alice Sheets4 months ago

Everything is concerning! DSA should be abolished as they are no longer Democrats in any sense of its former self. They hate America and OUR CONSTITUTION! They are now infiltrating our hire forms of Government and this cannot stand.

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Bernie Peer4 months ago

There lack of knowledge about how depraved humans are. 1) letting criminals out will definitely increase crime including murder2) getting rid of the senate means no local representation, just what they deem important. 3) they have no clue that there green new deal will send us into poverty. Where will they get the money for $30/hr, canceling student debts… the young who are voting for this already don’t work. 4) they will not be able to live without air conditioning, trust me from someone who was raised with no air conditioning.

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Terry McCall4 months ago

Destroying our constitution which is the backbone of our justice and social systems.

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Photo Man4 months ago

"What do you think is the most concerning part of DSA’s agenda?" ALL of it!!!! It would be far less work for those DSA idiots to immigrate to literally any Western or Northern Europe country as they literally already are ruled with that socialist/communist/king 'platform'. Better yet, since the bulk of the DSA political candidates are ethnic anti-Judeo believers and do not desire to assimilate to US culture, then they should just immigrate back to their home countries and work to improve living conditions there. Instead of raising hell here. If they do not, then the DSA needs to become their own distinct political party.

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Jim Powers 4 months ago

Ignorance!

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Return to Faith4 months ago

The US must return to God to be able to withstand the Marxist inroads. These people are at best brainwashed and a good number are outright malicious. As noted in a previous Upward News, low voter turnout and aggressive door to door "get out the vote" is helping DSA candidates. We must vigorously oppose DSA.

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Guy M.4 months ago

The most concerning part of the DSA's platform is its platform. It's pure madness from top to bottom and stem to stern. These communists believe that fraud and corruption can be eliminated by changing whose hands the power rests in. They want to purge prisons. It stands to reason they want to defund police as well. They march in the streets and win elections by utilizing our current form of government, and yet they want to dismantle it all. Have they ever read an unrewritten history book? Have they ever researched history themselves, or are they relying solely on what anti-American professors have taught them in the classroom? Do they have no idea that what they are doing has been done numerous times throughout history, and in every single instance, it has ended in disaster, i.e., with the loss of liberties and the freedom to make their own life choices?

Heaven help us. Oh, how I miss the America I grew up in.

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Shaun Hurrie4 months ago

Partnership with/vehicle for Islamism. The DSA"s policies cannot work, but they are a way to allow Sharia into the country & to fundamentally change freedom under the law (based on the Judeo-Christian worldview).

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Bill Roberts4 months ago

The people who are electing these socialist politicians either have no clue as to what socialism will do to their lives or they just don’t care and want change just for the sake of change. They are like sheep who follows evil without any regard to the outcome.

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Sandy Lutyens4 months ago

What is most concerning is that the young people don’t know enough to see that these policies will destroy the country. The liberal education has done a great job of brainwashing our youth

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Dan Mondy 4 months ago

DSA is going to sow chaos with their policies, then take political and Military control to save us from ourselves.

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Greg Berry4 months ago

What part? All of it.