Once the fringiest of marginal groups, the DSA now has close to 130,000 members, up from 5,000 15 years ago. And its members are winning Democratic primaries across the country.
Megan Romer, national co-chair, said its growth reflected a deep frustration with a system she said was failing young people. “People are, like, well, OK, capitalism’s not working,” she said in an interview. “So what else is there?”
Thanks! And I’ve seen a lot of people shit on the modern copyright system as it is, because you’re essentially paywalling for no real reason. I forget how it was explained, but another comment a few weeks back made better sense than I can recall here.
It’s why I’ve switched to a lot of FOSS apps. Contributions to community driven apps make loads of improvements, and if there needs to be different solutions or goals, they can be forked off to meet different needs. It helps keep applications lightweight vs cumbersome and heavy trying to be a sloppy Swiss army knife.