Seattle Democratic Socialists of America

FDR once said, “I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made.” Seattle DSA is proud to be an enemy of the untenable status quo.

Last month, Seattle DSA’s Twitter got noticed by Danny Westneat in The Seattle Times:

“Whatever happens next, understand that Durkan wasn’t a bad mayor because of some innate character trait,” the group wrote, citing how Amazon backed her 2017 campaign. “It was because her purpose was to serve as a proxy for the interests of Capital.” . . . But the views here reflect the stratospherically lofty expectations in this city for radical change, especially among Seattle’s far left.

We are facing a lot of really big problems right now: climate breakdown; mass incarceration; racist, far-right violence; a pandemic. These problems are killing working-class people. Seattle DSA believes that it’s good for people to have the “lofty” expectation that their society will not simply abandon them to their fate. Not only do we believe that we need to fundamentally transform society, but we also believe that this is possible—but only if we get organized into a powerful working class force.

If you would like to join us in raising expectations and hopes, we welcome you to join DSA today. We’re currently working on campaigns to get companies and donors to divest from the SPD Foundation, keep Kshama Sawant from being recalled, build a left-wing movement to counter the far right and business-as-usual politics, stop evictions, win climate action with a Federal Jobs Guarantee—not to mention the 2021 Seattle elections! Our power is in our membership, and we have a lot of work to do!