{"id":56220,"date":"2020-06-23T08:35:39","date_gmt":"2020-06-23T13:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=56220"},"modified":"2020-06-23T08:35:39","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T13:35:39","slug":"56220","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=56220","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

2021: Expanding the Socialist Insurgency<\/a><\/p>\n

One of the more interesting trends we\u2019re watching is the bifurcation of the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n

In structure, it\u2019s slightly reminiscent of how the Republican Party broke along the Conservative Inc. establishment and the Tea Party starting in 2009.<\/p>\n

Progressive political action committees like Justice Democrats and Courage to Change \u2014 the political action committee of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez \u2014 are running primary candidates against incumbent liberals in a bid not just to unseat the moderates, but to change the political makeup of Congress. There\u2019s a political insurgency being waged within the Democratic Party, pitting establishment moderates against their socialist challengers.<\/p>\n

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In last week\u2019s livestream, I provided an update on the progress of the Far Left. Justice Democrats candidates, for instance, have won three primaries, lost three, and still have three in upcoming primaries. Jamaal Bowman, endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America, is one to watch \u2014 an AOC clone from New York trying to unseat Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY).<\/p>\n

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The failed Bernie Sanders campaign squashed any hope of putting a socialist in the White House next year, and the reaction to Joe Biden has been downright cold. While Sanders has been busy campaigning for socialists in primaries and down ballot elections, Democrats have criticized Sanders for not doing enough to support Biden. Similarly, instead of expending resources to help Biden, socialist outlets have promoted winning locally, too.<\/p>\n

By gaining more power at the local and state levels \u2014 electing lower court judges and district attorneys, for instance \u2014 socialists can do more to form a judicial blockade against what they describe as neo-liberal and fascist policies at the national level.<\/p>\n

The argument has proven accurate with regard to the political power exercised by the courts and city councils during the COVID-19 shutdowns and, more recently, the riots and civil unrest. Local politicians can also provide cover for socialist disruption and facilitate the socialist insurgency.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Kshama Sawant, a member of the Socialist Alternative political party and Seattle city council member, unlocked the doors of City Hall to allow hundreds of protestors inside.<\/p>\n

More recently, professor Frances Fox Piven encouraged the socialist movement to not shy away from violence in local activism. Calling for \u201ca revolutionary transformation,\u201d Piven warned socialists not to \u201cfall on this very narrow path of nonviolence,\u201d and argued that \u201cthe violent capacity of the crowd is an important way of defending its ability to exercise disruptive power.\u201d<\/p>\n

You may have heard the name Piven before. In the 1990s, Piven and another socialist professor, Richard Cloward, pushed a plan to continually expand entitlement benefits and the welfare system until spending morphed into a guaranteed basic income. It\u2019s well-known as the Cloward-Piven strategy, and has been a moderately successful one, given the growing popularity of a universal basic income.<\/p>\n

While the socialist movement builds counter-institutions, militant trade unions, local economies, and autonomous zones \u2014 and turns grassroots organizing into social power \u2014 its political organizations are expanding representation in Congress and injecting socialists into state and local political positions.<\/p>\n

This is yet another sign of how the United States is changing, and is another indicator that socialist success has staying power. As they rack up political and social victories, the country\u2019s low intensity conflict will worsen.<\/p>\n

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Until next time, be well.<\/p>\n

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Always Out Front,<\/p>\n

Samuel Culper
\nRisk Intelligence Chief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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