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PSL is not even a real political party. They do not get anyone elected and they have rarely ever even had candidates. They are much too concerned about some strange sort of ideological purity.
It is a weird club for people who enjoy having protests to go to on the regular. Poorly attended protests usually, but they do get to talk amongst themselves about how much better things will be after a revolution they take no effective steps toward fomenting.
I suspect the imagine they are in the vanguard of something, but it has been over 80 years since they were founded.
Poseurs, Simps and Losers.
I have seen them at protests, and they do seem organized and they definitely can yell. What the fuck, I'll take it. I feel like it's probably mostly the central leadership that's somehow been corrupted into trying to throw elections to the Republicans and getting upset about us sending aid to Ukraine.
I don't know if the person on the microphone I saw spend most of their speech yelling about Democrats (literally more than 50%) was from the PSL, but I don't know that they were. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt and say maybe not, fuck it, come along with us, you can do your thing and I can do mine, sounds good.
I’m fine with their platform and I do go to their events now and then, so any shade I throw is dappled with some sunshine.
My main beef is they call themselves a ‘party’ and that means getting candidates elected. If that isn’t your goal, you aren’t a political party.
My feeling has been that they waste the energy of a lot of early adopters and teach them means of political engagement that render them ineffective.