DSA- backed candidates also wind up being unaccountable to the membership most of the time, because membership in the DSA isn’t required for endorsement and accountability basically begins/ends at the point of endorsement.
Ideally, you want to, yourself, be a member of an organization that fields candidates from within the organization to run on a democratically-decided platform.
Problem is even then, once they get elected they can just nope out on DSA, and since they didn't run specifically on a DSA ballot line but a dem one, DSA doesn't have recourse by pulling them off of the ballot
I hope that changes in the future as DSA continues to grow but it's not quite feasible right now in the congressional districts we backed candidates in. I think for NYC city council there may be a push for requiring membership, at least I will be pushing for it. The chapter is large enough that its city council candidates being backed in this way is viable imo.
Look at DSA backed candidates, whose campaign staff is active in other organizing organizations.
DSA- backed candidates also wind up being unaccountable to the membership most of the time, because membership in the DSA isn’t required for endorsement and accountability basically begins/ends at the point of endorsement.
Ideally, you want to, yourself, be a member of an organization that fields candidates from within the organization to run on a democratically-decided platform.
Problem is even then, once they get elected they can just nope out on DSA, and since they didn't run specifically on a DSA ballot line but a dem one, DSA doesn't have recourse by pulling them off of the ballot
I hope that changes in the future as DSA continues to grow but it's not quite feasible right now in the congressional districts we backed candidates in. I think for NYC city council there may be a push for requiring membership, at least I will be pushing for it. The chapter is large enough that its city council candidates being backed in this way is viable imo.