Abolition Game - Current Project
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I have a small idea what I'm doing. I'm working on a prison abolition game that engages people deeply in the policy choices that have created mass incarceration in the U.S. Emphasis on choices because there are other ways. silver-guillotine.itch.io
![A screenshot of an article by Jonathan Chait in The Atlantic. The title is "There's nothing democratic about these socialists." At the bottom, the social media graphic for the article is cut off, but it is a wilting rose representing, one can only assume, the failing strength of the DSA.
Above is a short summary which starts with what might be the silliest take in the article "The organization is still called democratic socialists, 'but the term does not necessarily mean 'liberal democracy as Americans have traditionally defined it,' Chait writes. 'Many socialist thinkers define what they call 'true democracy as a system in which capitalism has been overturned and the proletariat classes have seized political power through their representative vanguard (that is, them).'
'This is not, obviously, how the group sells itself to the broader universe of left-leaning, mostly Democratic voters it is trying to attract,' Chait continues at the link. 'One can easily imagine a feedback loop in which DSA influence makes it harder for Democrats to win back moderate and Republican voters [lol, lmao even], causing the party to lose , causing its base to grow more distrustful of the party's leaders, thus making them more likely to nominate DSA candidates. But even to conceive of the DSA's entry to the party as mainly an electoral setback, as some glue liberals appear to be doing, is to miss the deeper significance of the group's influence."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:exzv3ljkgrdt7po2egr4t2d4/bafkreia7raohytjezqfgvasnrftkupmnywz2lhj34xpwlfvq456c2qq3se)
