She’s less principled and less polished than Mamdani, but the WI Democratic party is on the verge of being dominated by fairly radicalized social democrats if people like her keep building the movement. The state legislature has a small but growing socialist caucus (obviously not the revolutionary kind) and “normal” Democrats don’t seem to undermine them the way other state parties do. The culture of Wisconsin gives me a lot of revolutionary pessimism, so I’ll take what I can get
Wisconsin is also the home of “sewer socialism” and the 2011 teachers strikes, and adjacent to MN, all of which offer mild optimism. The EEUU will never do “cool socialism”, but I think a socialish future is possible. I think it would weaken the USian bourgeoisie and their ability to meddle overseas.
wisconsin politics was cool like 100 years ago and there’s enough old liberals who are within two generations of those guys that the impulse to punch left isn’t as strong as elsewhere, but on the other hand you get Scott Walker and Tommy Thompson coming out of the state.
fuck the tavern league all my cousins hate the tavern league.
i will say, i also was not impressed with her insistence that kamala harris would be markedly better on Palestinian genocide during the presidential election season. (and mark pocan was belligerently trying to pass kamala off as being significantly more opposed to the genocide than she ever was, which is neither here nor there, but i find him sickening in his dogged loyalty.) i don’t think these sewer socialists are bad or anything, i think she could even do a lot of good, i just find the enthusiasm about such candidates to be misguided and overcaptured into a movement around “one really cool person” and we know that this always results in the “one really cool person” being distinctly unprincipled in critical moments with no real means of accountability. idk, i’ll keep trying to be charitable towards her, we’ll see how things progress.
She’s less principled and less polished than Mamdani, but the WI Democratic party is on the verge of being dominated by fairly radicalized social democrats if people like her keep building the movement. The state legislature has a small but growing socialist caucus (obviously not the revolutionary kind) and “normal” Democrats don’t seem to undermine them the way other state parties do. The culture of Wisconsin gives me a lot of revolutionary pessimism, so I’ll take what I can get
Wisconsin is also the home of “sewer socialism” and the 2011 teachers strikes, and adjacent to MN, all of which offer mild optimism. The EEUU will never do “cool socialism”, but I think a socialish future is possible. I think it would weaken the USian bourgeoisie and their ability to meddle overseas.
wisconsin politics was cool like 100 years ago and there’s enough old liberals who are within two generations of those guys that the impulse to punch left isn’t as strong as elsewhere, but on the other hand you get Scott Walker and Tommy Thompson coming out of the state.
fuck the tavern league all my cousins hate the tavern league.
i will say, i also was not impressed with her insistence that kamala harris would be markedly better on Palestinian genocide during the presidential election season. (and mark pocan was belligerently trying to pass kamala off as being significantly more opposed to the genocide than she ever was, which is neither here nor there, but i find him sickening in his dogged loyalty.) i don’t think these sewer socialists are bad or anything, i think she could even do a lot of good, i just find the enthusiasm about such candidates to be misguided and overcaptured into a movement around “one really cool person” and we know that this always results in the “one really cool person” being distinctly unprincipled in critical moments with no real means of accountability. idk, i’ll keep trying to be charitable towards her, we’ll see how things progress.