My knowledge of US politics failed me here... I was not aware that it is 
non-membership.

That sucks indeed. You can put a cross through the word Democratic and the 
strategy of entryism in the US...

On Mon, Mar 1, 2021 at 05:09 PM, Louis Proyect wrote:

> 
> You can't reach the masses through the DP. As Mark pointed out, it is not
> a membership party like British Labour. You don't "join" anything. You
> register as a Democrat, a Republican, Independent or one of the 3rd
> parties like the Greens or the Libertarians. That entitles you to vote for
> their candidates every 2 or 4 years. I am a registered Green but don't
> "belong" to it since, like the bourgeois parties, it is mostly an
> electoral machine. The late Bruce Dixon, Howie Hawkins and people like me
> and Mark Lause would like it to turn into a membership party even as
> loosely knit as the DSA but it's an uphill battle.


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