Socialists Set to Take-Over California Democratic Party

Daraka Larimore-Hall

The California Democratic Party is undergoing heavy infiltration by the United States’ largest socialist group, the Democratic Socialists of America, writes Trevor Loudon.

Working with the Communist Party USA and other socialist groups, Loudin reports that the DSA looks likely to capture both the party chairmanship and a significant number of Central Committee seats at the upcoming CDP state convention held from May 31 to June 2, 2019, in San Francisco.

Here are the details according to Loudin:

The DSA now has around 25 local chapters in California and likely well over 5,000 members. The DSA controls or influences most of the “Our Revolution” branches in California, plus the Bay Area’s Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club, Wellstone Progressive Democrats of Sacramento, the Feel the Bern Democratic Club of Los Angeles, and the state-wide California Democratic Party Progressive Caucus. The DSA also has close allies in the Service Employees International Union, National Nurses United, and other unions.

The DSA and a sprinkling of CPUSA and Freedom Road Socialist Organization (FRSO) allies now have the numbers to conquer the CDP from the grassroots up—and they’re doing it.

And keep an eye on Daraka Larimore-Hall:

Larimore-Hall is a long-time DSA comrade. In 1995, he was a co-chair of the DSA Youth Section, while a sophomore at the University of Chicago. Two years later he was elected to the DSA’s ruling body, the National Political Committee, at the November 1997 DSA National Convention in Columbus, Ohio.

In 1996, Larimore-Hall also represented the DSA in “socialist unity” talks with other Marxist groups, including Committees of Correspondence, Solidarity, and the FRSO.

Larimore-Hall was also active in the more than 100 parties-strong Socialist International, which the DSA was affiliated to until 2016—finally leaving because it was no longer radical enough.

Through the Socialist International, Larimore-Hall met and befriended a young New Zealand militant who served as president of the International Union of Socialist Youth in 2008. Eleven years later, Jacinda Adern has become world famous as the New Zealand prime minister, busily confiscating guns and suppressing free speech in the wake of the recent Christchurch mosque massacres carried out by Australian, and likely “National Bolshevik” activist, Brenton Tarrant.

In recent years, Larimore-Hall has been working his way through the ranks of the Santa Barbara Democratic Party and the state party. In my opinion, he will almost certainly soon chair the CDP.

It's bad out there folks and it is by no means clear how the socialist train is going to be stopped in America. It may start in California but in time it will spread. Socialist thinking is now the prevalent thinking across the country.

-RW