I’m not a Seattle comrade, hell, most of the people I know from the Sawant campaign moved away from Seattle since then. But I have been in some discussions about her with Seattle comrades.

Seattle DSA did not endorse her, and wrt Sawant, at least Sawant never wavered in her support for Palestine, unlike Wilson. I understand her endorsement survey form was incredibly weak, esp wrt support for BDS.

Interestingly, from what I understand, Seattle DSA had to send out a memo to their members threatening disciplinary action after coordinated campaigns by Wilson, and then Sawant, tried to do entryism to gain the chapter’s endorsement. I actually have a copy of an email from Wilson’s husband, who used member lists form Seattle Transit Union, which KW served as director, to join DSA in order to vote for endorsing her. Gotta love politics. MUG organized hard against endorsing her.

Even so, Seattle comrades I have been in touch with who were opposed to SDSA endorsement, still critically supported her and voted for her.

Then again, there is always

It’s a shame, I think there’s a much more interesting analysis to be had, but instead just deranged hand-wringing.

Its so bad I might actually start a substack.

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Under capitalism what is good and makes sense to the workers is bad and makes no sense to the capitalists. Our interests are fundamentally opposed. I’m all for electoral campaigns as a tactic, since it builds engagement and develops consciousness. But the strategy is to build for power, which means a mass movement and a worker’s party.

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Hey recent quitter here too, keep it up! Its been nice having a working brain again, after 2-3 months I feel pretty good! Keep in mind it might take a while to return to baseline, but you’ll get there. I was a daily, almost constant smoker from before covid until several years after, with a few remissions or whatever. I’m really hoping it sticks this time!

Working out can help, flood your system with some natural dopamine and work out excess frustrations. But honestly, you might just need to rest, if possible. The first few days can be very unpleasant. You’ll get your appetite back and start having crazy ass dreams. Get plenty of sleep if you can! Try some brain teaser puzzles or read, working out your brain will help it find a new baseline, and maybe distract you.

Try to limit booze or other substances, IMO a hangover can like lower my willpower to where I decide I have to run to the dispensary. At least until you’re through the woods. Maybe try to schedule a therapy sesh if possible, or hang out with a sober friend, go see a movie.

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What kind of post? I usually comment, and I might want to check some of docs to make sure my facts are straight.

I’m not good at like making up posts but I can write pretty well

Wow, what a trip. Let’s talk about what absolutely, positively, did not happen.

As the editors of Left Voice reminded us, Sawant was a member of the ultra-left Trotskyist group Socialist Alternative, which splintered over the irrelevant question of endorsing Bernie Sanders in 2016.

Whatever Left Voice says about it, the split did not come from a debate over endorsing Bernie. The split came when Sawant’s faction purged a large number of their most active members, including her own campaign manager from her Seattle city council race, from Socialist alternative. Why were they purged? Because they wanted to dual card in DSA. The CWI, which is SAlt’s tradition, stems from the “deep entryism” of the British Militant faction of the labor party in the 80’s. In carrying on with that tradition, a large group of SAlt’s leaders surmised that entering DSA in order to build a Marxist tendency within it, was an important task to combat the reformist nature of DSA. The Sawant faction disagreed and purged them, calling them opportunists, liquidationists, etc.,

The purged faction did join DSA and formed Reform & Revolution caucus, which succeeded, along with other caucuses that emerged around the same time, to establish a left wing majority on the NPC and many central committees. The former SAlt faction published a rather good book on DSA, which gathers views from all over the org and is being used in education programs all over the country.

Like okay, its a criticism of the sectarianism of Sawant, and I agree, she is a sectarian crank. Her campaign was run like a fucking cult, which we discovered when we met a group of very well meaning volunteers for her campaign, who she purged for working with DSA.

But I find it interesting that there is then this long diatribe against Trotskyism which makes up the majority of the article. And I’ve read almost this exact article before, several times in fact: when the purged SAlt faction tried to join DSA. All of the sudden, these DSA rightists become the most stalwart defenders of Stalin. And to be clear, R&R currently has two members on the NPC, and was deeply involved in, not sectarian ultraleft opportunism, but instead, organizing the first NPC majority in 2023, passing the anti-zionism and partyist resolutions in '25 (actually the R&R partyist amendment took a much more confrontational posture toward the Dems, but MUG’s “party surrogate” orientation won out, still a partyist direction though) , and co-writing the Workers Deserve More program which is stirring up political discourse among the working class in the media in a way we haven’t seen other than with electoral wins. Always pushing for a more revolutionary message, and a break from the Democratic party.

Hardly sitting on the sidelines and complaining. This is the same tradition as Sawant, different approaches, but two very close strains of American Trotskyism. But does the author care about any of these very real dynamics in DSA? No, instead he decides to call PSL Trotskyist (LMFAO, what is credibility even), and spin a yarn of abstract doom and gloom portent about Trotskyism and ultraleftism.

Also important to note that Trotsky never appeared at the Dies commission, and rejected the commission’s offer to send a rep to visit him in Mexico.

Any valid criticism of Sawant gets lost in his utter derision for accuracy, opportunistic left gestures, and incurious agenda. And frankly, that’s just how deranged the DSA rightists are.

Never judge another person until you’ve shit a mile in their pants

He’s a bougie pos, comes from money, went to some elite school for monsters, is notorious for being an unmitigated ass hole