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The DSA Gives Workers a Load of Lip Service

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18.08.2026

For a very long time, the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) has billed itself as a worker-oriented movement that is entirely devoted to fighting “for reforms that empower working people.”

The DSA’s website, social media accounts, and suave influencers all parrot the message that the DSA is “an organization of, by, and for the working class.”

To some degree, the narrative that the “DSA is for the workers” must be resonating because DSA candidates are winning in places like Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Perhaps many gullible, uninformed voters noticed that the DSA’s official policy platform is called the Workers Deserve More Program and thus concluded it must be worker friendly.

In today’s hyper-stimulating, screen-filled society, wherein most people rarely dig deep into issues and policies, I would not put it out of the realm of possibility that a huge number of people have been misled into believing that the DSA and workers are copacetic.

I don’t doubt that workers like public school teachers, professors, and community organizers are pro-DSA. Surely, social justice cottage industries such as DEI, CRT, ESG, MMT, etc. are loyal adherents.

But I do doubt that America’s vast array of highly skilled and very street-smart blue-collar workers like pipefitters, electricians, and welders, just to name a few, support DSA candidates with similar fidelity.

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