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Claudia de la Cruz & Karina Garcia -(Vote Socialist this Tuesday) - New General Thread for the 4th-6th of November 2024

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Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia are running for President and Vice-President of the United States on the ticket of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Claudia de la Cruz was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York to immigrant Dominican parents. As a teenager, she regularly participated in campaigns calling for an end to the U.S. blockade in Cuba and calling out police terror. While completing her degree in forensic psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a City University of New York college, de la Cruz helped create Palenque. Palenque was a group focused on bringing together young people to study the history of struggles and resistance by marginalized groups. During the Iraq War, de la Cruz organized some of these members as well as church members to rally against the war. She also helped found Da Urban Butterflies, a youth leadership development project for women from Washington Heights and the Bronx. Later on, de la Cruz co-founded The People’s Forum in New York City, a place dedicated to making space for working-class people. De la Cruz is also a mother and a pastor for the United Church of Christ, a Christian denomination that has historically been involved in social justice work.

Karina Garcia grew up in East Harlem, also known as El Barrio, in New York, as well as California. She attended Columbia University on a full scholarship and organized fellow students to speak out against the U.S. invasion of Iraq and to advocate for immigrant rights. After completing a degree in economics, Garcia became a high school math teacher in New York City. During that time, she advised a student group on issues like police brutality and school budget cuts. In 2012, she took up an organizing position at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice. She is also a mother and writer for Breaking the Chains, a feminist and socialist magazine under the PSL.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation is comprised of leaders and activists, workers and students, of all backgrounds. Organized in branches across the country, their mission is to link the everyday struggles of oppressed and exploited people to the fight for a new world.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation believes that the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society. Driven by an insatiable appetite for ever greater profits regardless of social cost, capitalism is on a collision course with the people of the world and the planet itself. Imperialist war; deepening unemployment and poverty; deteriorating health care, housing and education; racism; discrimination and violence based on gender and sexual orientation; environmental destruction—all are inevitable products of the capitalist system itself.

For the great majority of people in the world, including tens of millions of workers in the United States, conditions of life and work are worsening. There is no prospect that this situation can or will be turned around under the existing system.

The idea that the capitalists’ grip on society and their increasingly repressive state can be abolished through any means other than a revolutionary overturn is an illusion. Equally unrealistic are reformist hopes for a “kinder, gentler” capitalism, or solutions based on economic decentralization or small group autonomy. Meeting the needs of the more than 6.5 billion people who inhabit the planet today is impossible without large-scale agriculture and industry and economic planning.

The fundamental problems confronting humanity today flow from the reality that most of the world’s productive wealth—the product of socialized labor and nature—is privately owned and controlled by a tiny minority. This minority decides what will be produced and what will not. Its decisions are based on making profits rather than meeting human needs.

There are really only two choices for humanity today—an increasingly destructive capitalism, or socialism

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  • Do not worry I have visited the geniuses of reddit-logo specifically neoliberal, and bring you their wisdom on what the election means.

    "Dem state and local level governance has been bad. SF, Chicago, etc haven’t been good at delivering for their residents or spending efficiently, and voters nationwide punished Dems for their regional failures.

    Dems have spent/prioritized groups without a worthwhile payoff. There’s been hundreds of billions spent bailing out union pensions, primarily benefiting old white retired former union workers- often ones with rich pensions. These voters have taken Dem money and shifted to Trump.

    Dem policy for decades seemed to be built around “let’s do ____ good thing in a way that creates lots of jobs”. This isn’t a fit for 2024- and left behind a cancer of inefficiencies. Dems need to reinvent to “let’s do ____ good thing in an efficient low cost way- so we can get the most bang for our buck”. This is in conflict with unions/local non for profits- but it’s a big reason why it’s so much more expensive to live in Dem states.

    It hurts me deeply- but the Biden plan to lift up the bottom quadrant of wages through full employment failed. It led to inflation- which is politically toxic. Next time in a crisis - the horrible choice has to be mass unemployment and limited stimulus.

    Dems screwed up by having so much of the infrastructure projects get bogged down in years of environmental review and paperwork. Now- Republicans will get credit for the work.

    Dems failed to limit the flow of asylum seekers- and it was an unpopular disaster. This was made worse by Dem states and cities not having the capability to handle migrant influx without grifting/super inefficient spending.

    Biden’s late exit put Kamala in a tough position.

    Millennial generation seemed to have the 2007 crash as their formative political moment- and blames Republicans for it. Gen Z is different, and seems much more open to Republicans.

    Abortion referendums ran ahead of Dems pretty universally. Dems didn’t seem to be able to tie Trump or other Republicans candidates to abortion policy.

    Some of the story is just a global anti-incumbent wave…. But Trump was the opponent. It goes beyond that.

    The old media is dead. Trump and Musk figured out how to connect with voters through new media. Kamala didn’t.

    This might be me being petty/angry- but I think a lot of left-ish influencers had the best years of their life 2016-2020 when “resistance” money was flowing in for podcasts/donations. I think this made them less urgent to oppose Trump- which hurt on the margins."

    Definitely smart takes there and not just revealing how brainworms the libs have got.

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