DSA passed this resolution at its convention:
People upset about this don't seem to understand what "endorsement" means.
Feel free to explain how an early decision not to endorse any candidate besides Bernie Sanders is not a decision to just stick with Bernie no matter what.
So, your party is endorsing Trump. If you aren't endorsing Biden, you are de facto endorsing Trump.
Congratulations on supporting racism, xenophobia and unchecked capitalism.
Feel free to explain why a socialist organization should endorse Joe Biden.
Feel free to explain how an early decision not to endorse any candidate besides Bernie Sanders is not a decision to just stick with Bernie no matter what.
Feel free to explain why a socialist organization should endorse Joe Biden.
Endorsement is not just a public statement of support. For an organization where electoral strategy is only a portion of the work that it does, endorsement means putting financial and non financial support behind something. For example with Bernie, it meant spending limited resources on VAN, hiring a compliance staff, buying other software for text banking, membership database, etc. It also meant thousands of people organizing their own DSA for Bernie canvasses, outside of the Bernie campaign. If you can explain why a socialist organization would put those resources behind someone who is explicitly not a socialist, and expect to maintain its socialist membership, I’d love to hear it.
Brasky if Bernie would have won the nomination "Bend a knee you neo-liberal corporate shills!!!!!11111!!!!!!"
We all can't play anarchist from Mom's basementI mean you pretty much are a neo-liberal corporate shill, so at least he'd be accurate.
Not in that tone, but I'm sure there would have been a little gloating. But that time has passed, Biden effectively won the nomination over a month ago.