Nevada Progressives Enraged at Dems Who Voted in Favor of Resolution to “Condemn the Horrors of Socialism”

NAfter they voted for a House resolution, progressives in Nevada are outraged at the state’s establishment Democrats “condemn the horrors of socialism,” Setting up a fight between the party’s extreme-left flank of its more centrist officers.

The Las Vegas chapter of Democratic Socialists of America attacked the state’s Democratic Party. They condemned officials for not condemning Nevada House members after four lawmakers voted. Announce “the horrors of socialism” Countries such as North Korea and Cuba. The LVDSA cited the silence of the state party, as well as a few other grievances, to show that the Democratic Party is now a governing party. “dead end.”

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“It is a ‘party’ in name only; truly, it is simply a tangled web of dark money and mega-donors, cynical consultants, and lapdog politicians,” LVDSA officials I wrote in a Statement. “The establishment is Lucy with the football: no matter how effectively socialists organize for power, the establishment will simply pull the football away, using dirtier and dirtier tricks. Enough falling for the tricks and even the most dedicated socialist can’t help but give up and play the ugly game.”

This statement is made after the House resolution, which received bipartisan support and passed in a 328-86 vote With 109 Democrats joining all Republicans to support the measure, All four House members from Nevada — Democratic Reps. Steven Horsford, Susie Lee, and Dina Titus as well as Republican Rep. Mark Amodei — voted in favor of the resolution.

Las Vegas Democratic Socialists lamented the vote, and specifically criticised the Nevada Democratic Party’s inability to condemn the votes of the legislators. In response, the LVDSA recused itself from endorsing any candidate in the upcoming election for a new Nevada State Democratic Party chair — noting the slate of progressive candidates has failed to set themselves apart from traditional Democrats.

“Now re-election approaches. The former Progressive Slate’s stances do not differ significantly or materially from their opponents’, nor do their general tactics,” The group wrote. “We cannot offer this slate our organizational support, either on paper or through organized action, despite the fact that some of the slate members continue to be DSA members.”

The latest in a series of feuds between progressives, centrist Democrats in Nevada has been the refusal to support a candidate since the takeover by the far-left flank of the state party more than two years ago.

Members of the LVDSA made a clean sweep, securing all the Nevada Democratic Party leadership positions in 2021, marking a significant win for progressives and setting the stage for a transformation of the state Democratic Party — a transformation that progressives say never happened.

Instead, socialists elected to office began facing accusations of abandoning progressive principles in the face of reelection challenges.

“As the term went on, we saw the ostensibly-progressive coalition move more and more to the center, making administrative and political choices that were more in line with the corporatists that we pledged to beat than the grassroots organizers who pushed the initial victory,” The LVDSA wrote. “As socialists, we do not think the rightward shift is a moral failing of leadership; we have seen the same thing happen over and over when socialists enter Democratic Party politics. The corrupt, corporate-fueled machine (and its aide-de-camp, the mainstream media) is a moderating force, even for the proudest leftists.”

The group criticized Nevada Democratic Party Chairwoman Judith Whitmer. Whitmer won the seat in 2021, after she ran in affiliation with NVDSA. Critics accused her, among others, of failing to create a grassroots movement for the state. This criticism was apparently shared by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), who was heavily involved in the election of progressives to the state’s Democratic Party.

“The senator is pretty disappointed in Judith’s chairmanship, specifically around her failure to build a strong grassroots movement in the state,” a source told Politico. “A lot of us feel sad about what could have been. It was a big opportunity for Bernie-aligned folks in the state to prove some of the folks in the establishment wrong. And that hasn’t happened.”

Whitmer supported her tenure as party chairwoman and noted that Sanders never approached her to raise concerns about her leadership. Additionally, Whitmer argued that she has spent the last two years focused on making changes that are politically realistic — something that far-left progressives have not been willing to do, she said.

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“They really did not want to do electoral politics,” She told the outlet. “They wanted to work outside of the current electoral system. As the state party chair, I can’t do that. I can’t work outside of the system itself. I represent the Democratic Party. I don’t represent the [Democratic Socialists of America.]”

Whitmer will be up for reelection March 4. The state central committee will then choose its next chair. Daniele Monroe-Moreno will be her opponent. She has been supported by several state Democratic senators and members of the House.