STFU Zio

Welcome To Bolshevik America

I can’t get that liberal woman out of my mind, the one I wrote about earlier.

Really, when she said, “I am so sorry, Diana” (that radical Muslims and leftists were badgering Jews illegally in a Jewish neighborhood) I should have just asked her:

“Sorry about what?”

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I was tossed off X for a while for pissing off pro-Palestinians who are very assiduous about complaining to the management. Originally I thought, “Great,” but I thought better of it and appealed and they reinstated me with a warning. X affords a real feast of evidence about the catastrophic moral decline of the NuDemocratsᵀᴹ.

Here’s a good one.

“Mike from PA” is a Twitch partner and a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Got nearly 54K followers.¹

As a DSA goon, he’s defending Graham Platner, who is getting deeper and deeper into a pool of shit-filled quicksand of his own making. (Paywalled if you can’t link to archived.)

The only way he can discredit a journalist is by linking them to… you guessed it — Israel.

Someone responded:

Mike’s response:

Even the lowercase “z” is an insult; he won’t dignify the word with an uppercase initial letter. Acknowledging it as a proper noun is too far.

That’s the Democrats now: disagree with “Mike from PA” and you’re a “zio” and shut the fuck up.

I looked online and got this description of “Mike from PA”:

Mike from PA (real name Michael Beyer) is a well-known figure within a specific niche of online left-wing politics, but he is not a major player or decision-maker in the broader political landscape or the official Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) organization.

The point of keeping track of this is not to chart the day-to-day temperature and fights. That gets really boring really quickly. It’s the big picture. I will not be paying daily attention to this — too soul destroying. But we need to be aware of what’s out there, and I have to admit that I wasn’t aware of the DSA before right about now.

I confess: I was quite ignorant. I associated it with Bernie, an ineffectual fraud who moved from multiracial, multicultural Brooklyn to be a socialist in near lily-white Vermont and dingbats like AOC. I associated “socialist” with Jews who were 80 years old when I was a kid.

So I looked into it.

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is an actual 501(c)(4) — a so-called social welfare organization. It was founded in 1982 by Michael Harrington, a socialist who, to my knowledge, was distinguished by total banality and unoriginality, who never did anything — except found the DSA. Its membership exploded following Bernie Sanders' 2016 campaign.

Rather than running third-party candidates, the DSA uses a highly disciplined ground game of young volunteers to back progressive insurgents in Democratic primaries, successfully unseating moderate incumbents in low-turnout local and state elections. Smart.

This strategy has elevated high-profile federal lawmakers like AOC and Rashida Tlaib while establishing powerful local blocs in cities like New York. By inserting these politicians into office and organizing aggressively on the ground, the DSA has dragged mainstream Democratic rhetoric to the left, making once-fringe policies like Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and strict tenant protections standard debate topics. Zionism is next. The DSA is fiercely anti-Israel, as we shall see.

You don’t join the Democratic party as a member of the DSA. Its takeover of the Democratic Party is entirely unofficial.

Here is how a 501(c)(4) like the DSA pulls it off:

• Using the Open Primary System: Unlike many European democracies where political parties are closed clubs that pick their own candidates, the United States uses public primary elections. Anyone can register as a Democrat, get on the ballot, and run. The DSA takes advantage of this open backdoor by recruiting their own members to run as Democrats. That’s how AOC ran, and won against a tired old Irish-American Democrat.

• Acting as a Shadow Infrastructure: To win an election, a candidate needs a platform, a campaign team, donor lists, and people to knock on doors. Mainstream Democrats get this from the official party apparatus. The DSA provides a parallel, shadow infrastructure for progressive insurgents. When a candidate gets the DSA endorsement, they instantly inherit a highly disciplined campaign machine.

• Forming Voting Blocs After Winning: Once these DSA-backed candidates win their Democratic primaries and coast to victory in general elections, they enter congress or state legislatures with a specific allegiance. Instead of voting with the Democratic establishment, they organize themselves into a tight caucus—a faction—that votes together, threatens to block legislation, and negotiates as a single unit.

By combining the fundraising flexibility of a 501(c)(4) with a dedicated volunteer army, the DSA behaves exactly like an internal political party, using the Democratic Party’s own ballot line to build institutional power.

Pretty clever. Sounds like another group I’ve heard of. What might they have been called?

The Bolsheviks. Classic “entryism,” a term coined in the 1930s to describe a specific strategy mapped out by the Marxist theorist Leon Trotsky. He advised his followers to enter larger, mainstream social democratic parties rather than remaining in isolated, fringe groups. The goal was to radicalize the members of those larger parties from the inside and eventually win control of the organization.

Today, political scientists use it more broadly to describe any highly organized faction that joins a larger, established political party to alter its platform, use its resources, or capture its ballot line.

The core similarity to the Bolsheviks is obvious. The Bolsheviks successfully used entryism by embedding themselves into existing trade unions, local worker councils (soviets), and political groups to systematically build power from within. The DSA follows a similar blueprint by organizing within the structure of the Democratic Party rather than trying to build a new party from scratch.

The massive difference is that the Bolsheviks operated under a repressive, closed Tsarist regime and targeted institutions that lacked open, democratic safeguards. The DSA operates entirely within the legal, modern U.S. primary system, exploiting the fact that voter turnout in local primaries is typically low enough for a highly disciplined, motivated minority to swing the outcome.

While the Bolsheviks sought the complete overthrow of the state and its institutions, the DSA’s immediate goal is to use this inside-the-party mechanism to shift the existing legislative and electoral baseline. But what are their long-term goals?

Their explicit long-term objective is to systematically phase capitalism out from below and replace it with a fully socialist society. They don’t pussyfoot around on that. They’re brazen.

As for Israel, they’re clear:

Support self-determination for the Palestinian people and a political solution to the current crisis premised on the guarantee of basic human rights, including an end to the military occupation, an end to discrimination against Palestinians within Israel, and the right of return of refugees, as outlined in the call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.

Discontinue US support of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people, including an end to all military aid and resisting the “normalization” of relations between the Israeli government and other governments.

I’ll be looking at the DSA more carefully.

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Returning to “Mike from PA” here’s another sample of his wit and wisdom.

Another response to his tweet:

Mike from PA to him:

Ah, “tick tock.” X abounds in tropes and turns of phrase. One of the most menacing is “tick tock.”

“Tick tock” on X isn’t a countdown; it’s a veiled threat to signal that someone’s time is running out, that some revelation or humiliation or comeuppance is imminent. It’s the digital equivalent of tapping a watch while staring someone down, theatrical menace. People who use that phrase are trash.

More from Mike, to someone who objected to Hasan Piker:

54K followers. A star in the most effective faction in the NuDemocratᵀᴹ party. Favorite insult is “zio.”

Something tells me socialism really isn’t that important to him. It’s something else. What could that be?

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Addendum. More NuDemocratᵀᴹ wit and wisdom. Klion edits “Jewish Currents.” I’d call it “Jewish Riptide.”

He’s also a member of the DSA.

1. This link isn’t from the DSA’s official website. However, the text published on that site is a direct copy of the official 2021 DSA National Platform, which was democratically debated and approved by their membership at their national convention.

The website is for a documentary and the link isn’t on the landing page - I found it by happenstance. This is how the DSA functions: not like a traditional political party, more like an organized machine that captures existing public infrastructure to achieve its ends. Classically Bolshevik.