A former executive board member of the Democratic Socialists of America is sounding the alarm after leaving the organization. He says the DSA members now embrace Marxism. They defend foreign regimes that oppose the United States.
Jake Altman served on DSA’s Boston board. He told Fox News Digital the group tries to “force their agenda down other people’s throats.” His advice to remaining dissenters: “Leave.”
Far, far left…in a frightening way…
“I had been involved in my local union and met some people who were far, far to the left, in like, a frightening way,” he described.
“I was looking for a more pragmatic and thoughtful option on the left that was focused on economic policy.”
He said they were “beginning to sound more and more like those extreme groups on the left that I, you know, certainly didn’t want anything to do with.”
He warned that “frightening and extreme radicals are running the show.”
In 2019, Altman had expressed concern that the DSA defended the regime of Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela, since “the democratic socialists and social Democrats in Venezuela are in the opposition.”
“The person disagreed with me and defended, you know, essentially defended the Maduro regime,” Altman described.
Today, you have DSA members saying, ‘Bernie Sanders, AOC, they’re not socialists,’” Altman added.
“They’re willing to fall over themselves apologizing for any regime that opposes the United States, simply because it opposes the United States.”
Then he warned of the new ideology springing from the movement. Altman said there is a “marriage” between “Marxist utopianism” and “third worldism” in the DSA. You know what third-worldism means. It means Maduro, Ayatollahs, Mao.
Finally, his most frightening warning about third-worldism. He described it as “this view that America is a unique evil in the world and that its enemies have a point.”
He advised Democrats to leave.
“I personally think that just, given the organization and the structure inside, that a lot of dissident voices have been silenced,” he continued.
“A lot of dissident voices have left the organization.”
Unfortunately, this is the Democratic Party today. They will do anything to win.
DEPROGRAMMED: A former executive board member of the Democratic Socialists of America is sounding the alarm after leaving the organization, saying DSA members now embrace Marxism and defend foreign regimes that oppose the United States.
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