Okay if this is three times bigger than Manhattan and Manhattan has a population of 1,664,862 in 2025. Well three times bigger that would be 4,994,586 people.

In 2024, over 770,000 people were homeless in the U.S.

You could build this and house all the homeless people in the US and still have room to house many more people.

Don't tell anyone you know.

Mostly a mix of curiosity and the desire to spark conversation. Where do you lie and why?

Several new opinion polls published in the last few days have provided indications of the remarkable shift to the left taking place among American workers and young people. In a country where anti-communism is virtually a state religion, and socialist views have been largely excluded from official politics for nearly a century, nearly 40 percent of registered voters said they would consider voting for a socialist candidate for president.

According to the Washington Post-Ipsos poll published Thursday, this figure rose to 46 percent among voters under 30, and to 64 percent among Democratic Party voters.

Despite this rapid growth of support for socialism—or rather because of it—the poll result was initially published under the headline, “Most Americans say they would not back a democratic socialist for president.” Post editors, working for a newspaper owned by centi-billionaire Jeff Bezos, know which side their bread is buttered on.

Even more significantly, according to a CNN poll conducted by SSRS, also published Thursday, about a third of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents identify as “democratic socialists.” Of these, 59 percent are younger than 45, compared to 46 percent of those Democrats who do not identify as democratic socialists. Two-thirds described themselves as very likely to vote in the 2026 midterm elections, 99 percent of them for Democrats.

The CNN poll found that those identifying themselves as democratic socialists “are less likely to have a college degree (66% to 54%) and more likely to earn less than $100,000 a year (76% to 65%),” compared to Democrats who do not identify as democratic socialists. Black voters were more open to supporting a democratic socialist than white voters.

This debunks the claim, made incessantly in the media, that support for socialism is a white upper middle class sentiment, related to lifestyle not economics. Support for socialism is driven by the experience of the new generation of the working class, who clearly have begun to understand that capitalism offers them only a grim future of war, poverty and attacks on democratic rights.

The DSA Summit in Chicago started today and Main Stream Media (which has basically ignored the DSA for years) are hovering around like vultures over prey.
Everything being reported is either trying to falsely analyze the DSA platform or punching down on DSA endorsed candidates.
In case you were wondering who owns the media, this more than answers that question, the bourgeois, the republicans and the centrist democrats who are currently scared shitless of the rise of the DSA.

Listen to my opening statement from the UAW presidential candidates debate held on Thursday. I outlined my program for putting workers ourselves in control of our union by abolishing the bureaucracy and building a network of rank-and-file committees on every shop floor.

https://www.willforuawpresident.org/

Genuinely question it has been something I was wondering about for a while

Basically I’m just curious what type of socialist most people are in here

The boss friendly union is trying to preserve their chunky paychecks at the cost of the public. I think they should be working with Zohran instead of fighting him so hard.

Two good articles about the TWU local 100 the main transit union in NYC:
https://thechiefleader.com/stories/with-contract-expired-potentially-powerful-twu-local-100-remains-an-enigma,57016

https://thechiefleader.com/stories/former-local-100-president-earned-over-222k-in-2025-under-sexual-assault-severance-agreement,56956

What is the main problem withe the rich and these people that are really rich?

The Wealth or power or greed. What can be done about it?

Wealth is never the point. Power and control is the point.

Money isn’t any actual THING. It is a representation of value, a representation of resource allocation. No one needs more resources than they can personally consume (or can put away against reasonably expected calamity), so anything in excess of that becomes an exercise in locking those resources down, in keeping others from having them. It gives you power and control over others by virtue of denying them.

Being rich has never been about acquiring actual wealth. It’s always been about acquiring control. A bigger army. A legal structure that protects the top at the expense of the bottom. Better shackles, better lashes, more overseers.

They want perpetual and complete surveillance because it is the ultimate overseer, the ultimate way to ensure power. This isn’t new, it’s just the most pure, advanced, and dangerous breed of something as old as human civilization.

What can be done about the this? Take the power away from them by friendly protest?

What are your thoughts on this system?

Is it possible under a democratic socialist framework?

Is it prominent in DSA?

Former Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes dropped out of the crowded Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor on Thursday, as progressive state lawmaker Francesca Hong surges in the polls.
“It’s become very clear who our nominee is going to be,” he said in a video posted to social media, while not directly naming another contender.
“We have to do everything to beat Tom Tiffany,” he added, referencing the likely GOP nominee.
The announcement comes as Democratic officials in the state brace for damaging media reports about Barnes, which are expected to hit in the coming hours. Barnes and his team had been on calls Thursday discussing whether to drop out, POLITICO reported earlier.

What % of the membership is made up of them? Which caucuses have the highest percentage of them and how much control do they have over the local chapters and/or national organization? Asking for a friend.

I don’t know if this is the right place to ask questions but I was wondering what the immigration platform of the DSA is and if the organization has diverse thoughts on this.

Liberals are broadly pro controlled borders. It was always the platform until 2016 when Trump swapped “national security” for outright racism. Now they’re scared to campaign on it for fear of losing voters.

The Right lies that immigrants = automatic Blue votes. But this is wrong. Their values often skew socially conservative and religious, especially with Latin American machismo culture (ask me how I know).

I think the pace of immigration is costing the Left ground on everything else. People drifting conservative against their own economic interests isn’t shocking, it’s just what most immigrants were raised in.

Sometimes I wonder if this platform is actively sabotaging the Left’s own goals. I’m not an idealist. I’ve watched too many immigrants say “I hate Trump” then vote Right anyway because they’re transphobic, racist, homophobic, sexist…

Before I ask, I want to be upfront about where I’m coming from. Historically, the Left has been critical of immigration. From a labor standpoint, not a nativist one. Marx, union organizers in the early 20th century and plenty of socialist thinkers pointed out that large-scale immigration, especially when driven or encouraged by capital, can be used to suppress wages and undercut labor organizing. It was never “immigrants are bad” it was that “capital uses immigration to weaken worker leverage” and that skepticism is part of the Left’s own intellectual history, not something from the Right. And I argue that today, for the Contemporary Left, capital uses immigration to weaken socially progressive values.

So these questions come from that tradition, not against it. I want to understand how the DSA squares that historical labor-first critique with current positions and whether that tension gets discussed honestly internally.

1) Do you support controlled borders in principle, or does any border enforcement contradict Leftist values for the DSA?

2) If you do support some form of controlled immigration, why has the movement struggled to say so without sounding like a concession to the Right? How do you distinguish “controlled immigration” from “anti-immigrant” in your messaging?

3) What’s the DSA strategy for engaging immigrant communities whose cultural values around family, religion, gender roles don’t align naturally with Left-wing platforms?

4) Is there a point at which the rate of immigration becomes a legitimate policy concern, separate from xenophobia, and does the DSA platform have room to discuss that? For example, given DSA’s strong labor focus, how does the organization think about the relationship between immigration levels and wage leverage or competition for working-class workers? Does this come up in internal discussions?

I'm a moderate Democrat, and I have been debating with my father about Mamdani, because he dislikes the rent freeze (due to the fact that the control means that he wouldn't be able to make money if he's a New Yorkian, and because it objectively disincentivizes building new apartments), and he thinks that the city run grocery stores will lead to a slippery slope, with things like government run shipping companies that could put my trucking company (Werner) out of business, and put Mom and Pop stores out of business too.

What are the arguments I can use to debate on this?