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snooper2

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6. Um, YOOO HOOO< you already have a socialist party LOL
Tue Jun 7, 2016, 12:32 PM
Jun 2016

Why don't you just go ahead and work with what you have? Infighting?


Meet the Socialist Running for President in the Shadow of Bernie Sanders

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"You gotta see this real quick. You're gonna shit," Mimi Soltysik tells me. It's an afternoon in late February, and Soltysik, the presidential nominee for the Socialist Party USA, is leaning over his laptop in the living room of his cramped, cat-dominated Los Angeles apartment, showing me a YouTube video of a legendarily awkward performance by a seemingly deranged Chicago pop singer named Bobby Conn.

"It almost makes you uncomfortable, which is great," he says.

No matter who he's talking to, anytime there's air in the conversation, Emidio "Mimi" Soltysik (pronounced "saul-TISS-ick&quot tends to ask the other people what kind of music they're into, or what they listened to when they were younger.

When he first met his vice presidential candidate, Angela Walker, he picked her brain about music too, but his reasons were political. "What's one of the songs that shaped you politically? What were you listening to that pushed you to be who you are?" Walker recalls Soltysik asking. Music was important to Walker as well—her identity, she says, was shaped by "being a black metalhead." Her reply to Soltysik included Rage Against the Machine and Public Enemy.

https://www.vice.com/read/meet-the-socialist-running-for-president-in-the-shadow-of-bernie-sanders

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Cool. Maybe they can start www.DemocraticSocialistUnderground.com PeaceNikki Jun 2016 #1
will that make you happy? Hiraeth Jun 2016 #11
Getting Democrats elected makes me happy. PeaceNikki Jun 2016 #12
You can rest assured that the Progressive Wing of the Democratic Party will present... ChisolmTrailDem Jun 2016 #23
I shall wait with bated breath. PeaceNikki Jun 2016 #25
I love it when one gets their idioms correct! rock Jun 2016 #55
In what way can support for Clinton be considered 'underground"? Maybe DU needs a name change... ChisolmTrailDem Jun 2016 #22
You should run that by the admins. I obviously am not the decider on such matters. PeaceNikki Jun 2016 #27
This message was self-deleted by its author ChisolmTrailDem Jun 2016 #29
?? PeaceNikki Jun 2016 #30
In what way can support for Clinton be considered 'underground"? ChisolmTrailDem Jun 2016 #32
You're trying to pick a fight and I am not interested today. #FeelTheJoy PeaceNikki Jun 2016 #34
Because you can't answer the question honestly. Well, at least you're being you. nt ChisolmTrailDem Jun 2016 #37
. PeaceNikki Jun 2016 #38
You continue to be you. It is who you are, after all. nt ChisolmTrailDem Jun 2016 #39
Yes, and you - you. PeaceNikki Jun 2016 #41
You do understand... yallerdawg Jun 2016 #44
That is the case where I live redstateblues Jun 2016 #54
Excellent OP...n/t monmouth4 Jun 2016 #2
Yes, go for it. Be aware that the name Hortensis Jun 2016 #42
I think you might be right. The two party thing is being stretched to the breaking point. Vattel Jun 2016 #3
I would prefer that he has engineered an important change in the Democratic party Fast Walker 52 Jun 2016 #4
That would be preferable. kentuck Jun 2016 #5
yeah, for sure-- we need to keep the young liberals within the system! Fast Walker 52 Jun 2016 #48
Hold that thought Exilednight Jun 2016 #7
Um, YOOO HOOO< you already have a socialist party LOL snooper2 Jun 2016 #6
there is a difference between a socialist and a democratic-socialist. Exilednight Jun 2016 #8
Not in the eyes of most of those over 55. Go ahead and discount that voting bloc too. tonyt53 Jun 2016 #17
Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2016 #9
In other words, you're voting for Donald Trump. A vote for Jill Stein is a conduit for voting Trump. ashtonelijah Jun 2016 #13
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Right after Bernie releases his tax returns, as every person running for prez has done, except two tonyt53 Jun 2016 #18
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But the argument that has been made for many years and with multiple candidates. tonyt53 Jun 2016 #36
As a member of Congress... yallerdawg Jun 2016 #45
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huh. welcome to du. what brought you here today, of all days? PeaceNikki Jun 2016 #50
This message was self-deleted by its author ashtonelijah Jun 2016 #51
No it isn't. Tierra_y_Libertad Jun 2016 #28
+1. It's not your dad's DEM Party. It's not even your Grandad's. Smarmie Doofus Jun 2016 #46
This is SO true! I mourn the things we all fought for in the 60s and 70s adigal Jun 2016 #56
We also fought against THE MAN...Big Business/Government power....now look at us.nt clarice Jun 2016 #59
Now we LOVE the man as long as our 457s keep going up nt adigal Jun 2016 #65
Ironic isn't it?nt clarice Jun 2016 #66
A system configured like ours will always devolve into a two party choice whatthehey Jun 2016 #10
Yep. 3rd party success likely depends upon major structural changes. Garrett78 Jun 2016 #60
Yes, I agree. Baitball Blogger Jun 2016 #14
Well someone lost alert privileges for 24 hours Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #15
If Hillary has to beg, cajole and plead for Berniestans to vote for her Blue_Tires Jun 2016 #19
A-friggin'-men! Surya Gayatri Jun 2016 #40
I keep saying that. I'm big on the Working Families Party anigbrowl Jun 2016 #61
It's up and running and ready to go. Bern could've run on their ticket (he IS a member), Surya Gayatri Jun 2016 #21
That was my thought ismnotwasm Jun 2016 #24
The Democratic Socialists Party already exists. You know that, right? TwilightZone Jun 2016 #26
Sanders is also a card-carryng member. He could easily have chosen to run on their ticket... Surya Gayatri Jun 2016 #31
Yep. TwilightZone Jun 2016 #33
Great point Time for change Jun 2016 #35
Is a new major party now inevitable? Scuba Jun 2016 #43
Will it have Blackjack and Hookers?? thelordofhell Jun 2016 #47
a democratic socialist who doesn't respect ... artyteacher Jun 2016 #52
Wake me when it happens... brooklynite Jun 2016 #53
With election reform felix_numinous Jun 2016 #57
The "third Party" that Bernie has created is within the Democratic Party. kentuck Jun 2016 #58
You think primarying Clinton in 2020 would be constructive? Garrett78 Jun 2016 #62
It depends on the direction of the Democratic Party... kentuck Jun 2016 #64
Four years? probably more like four months nolabels Jun 2016 #63
I have been a democrat all my life. Hillary has successfully and single-handedly made me reconsider. lumberjack_jeff Jun 2016 #67
Right - it's called the "Not Hillary" Party - and it's leader is Donald Trump. baldguy Jun 2016 #68
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