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Claudia De la Cruz and Karina Garcia are running for President and Vice-President of the United States on the ticket of the Party for Socialism and Liberation.

Claudia de la Cruz was born and raised in the South Bronx, New York to immigrant Dominican parents. As a teenager, she regularly participated in campaigns calling for an end to the U.S. blockade in Cuba and calling out police terror. While completing her degree in forensic psychology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, a City University of New York college, de la Cruz helped create Palenque. Palenque was a group focused on bringing together young people to study the history of struggles and resistance by marginalized groups. During the Iraq War, de la Cruz organized some of these members as well as church members to rally against the war. She also helped found Da Urban Butterflies, a youth leadership development project for women from Washington Heights and the Bronx. Later on, de la Cruz co-founded The People’s Forum in New York City, a place dedicated to making space for working-class people. De la Cruz is also a mother and a pastor for the United Church of Christ, a Christian denomination that has historically been involved in social justice work.

Karina Garcia grew up in East Harlem, also known as El Barrio, in New York, as well as California. She attended Columbia University on a full scholarship and organized fellow students to speak out against the U.S. invasion of Iraq and to advocate for immigrant rights. After completing a degree in economics, Garcia became a high school math teacher in New York City. During that time, she advised a student group on issues like police brutality and school budget cuts. In 2012, she took up an organizing position at the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice. She is also a mother and writer for Breaking the Chains, a feminist and socialist magazine under the PSL.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation is comprised of leaders and activists, workers and students, of all backgrounds. Organized in branches across the country, their mission is to link the everyday struggles of oppressed and exploited people to the fight for a new world.

The Party for Socialism and Liberation believes that the only solution to the deepening crisis of capitalism is the socialist transformation of society. Driven by an insatiable appetite for ever greater profits regardless of social cost, capitalism is on a collision course with the people of the world and the planet itself. Imperialist war; deepening unemployment and poverty; deteriorating health care, housing and education; racism; discrimination and violence based on gender and sexual orientation; environmental destruction—all are inevitable products of the capitalist system itself.

For the great majority of people in the world, including tens of millions of workers in the United States, conditions of life and work are worsening. There is no prospect that this situation can or will be turned around under the existing system.

The idea that the capitalists’ grip on society and their increasingly repressive state can be abolished through any means other than a revolutionary overturn is an illusion. Equally unrealistic are reformist hopes for a “kinder, gentler” capitalism, or solutions based on economic decentralization or small group autonomy. Meeting the needs of the more than 6.5 billion people who inhabit the planet today is impossible without large-scale agriculture and industry and economic planning.

The fundamental problems confronting humanity today flow from the reality that most of the world’s productive wealth—the product of socialized labor and nature—is privately owned and controlled by a tiny minority. This minority decides what will be produced and what will not. Its decisions are based on making profits rather than meeting human needs.

There are really only two choices for humanity today—an increasingly destructive capitalism, or socialism

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[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The dems really arouse that "I don't know if you're fucking with me" anxiety response in me. There are people whose full time job is to report on them, to strategize with them, and to help them organize events. So they really spend millions of dollars on projects that are DOA on purpose? If you weren't joking, why wouldn't you look at any poll and do anything popular? Why am I capable of putting together a better strategy because I looked at memes? You stand to gain a bunch of money and power if you win. Therefore you must be joking. But if you're joking, then these people and their livelihoods are a farce? You organize a make up crew, outfits, strategies, debates, voice coaching, audience coaching, etc. for shits and giggles? What the fuck are you talking about????

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago

The polls that showed a perfect cointoss chance for either to win was actually the end goal of their campaign. That was the point. Going any farther left than they absolutely have to is exactly what they want to avoid doing.

[-] WhatDoYouMeanPodcast@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

That hypothesis bothers me because why wouldn't you just lie again? Ocrumbo lied. You could cut a sweetheart deal with a tech company and make out like a bandit by offering to break up tech companies, releasing a cryptocurrency, and reneging once you're in office for doing one (1) popular thing.

[-] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago

I guess that's true but there's also an element of attempting to normalize neoliberalism as both political extremes, the entire Overton Window squeezed into a completely flat plane of cultural signifiers and aesthetic differences. Running a campaign outside that small space gives people hope and makes them want a change from the status quo.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago

I return again and again to the emerging "the democrayic party is a fanatic cult of the american civic religion" for an explanation.

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