Socialism like ‘a flame thrower to dry grass’: Joe Concha

Read the DSA's new platform twice just to make sure it wasn't satire. It's not. "Workers Deserve More" calls for scrapping the Senate, blanket amnesty, defunding what they'd rename the Department of War, and dumping the Electoral College for a national popular vote. That's not a policy menu, that's a wish list for dismantling the structure of the country as built, item by item.

Joe Concha's flamethrower line is colorful, but the underlying point holds up. You don't get to torch the constitutional framework and call it "workers deserve more." The Senate exists so California and Wyoming both have a seat at the table. The Electoral College exists for the same reason. Open borders and amnesty aren't labor policy, they're a different argument entirely, dressed up in worker language because it polls better than saying the quiet part out loud.

What's notable is how casually this stuff gets floated now, like eliminating a legislative chamber is a normal plank next to minimum wage hikes. It isn't. These are the kind of proposals that used to get laughed out of a room. Now they're a platform header.

The DSA is a small slice of the Democratic coalition, sure. But ideas like this don't stay fringe if nobody bothers to say they're radical. Somebody has to say it. Might as well be us.