Yeah, there should be a similar poll simply asking about policies puahed by the DSA.

Leftists are just really terrible at communicating with the working class. It's mostly a movement coming out of universities where the goal is to prove how clever you are to everyone else. That just doesn't play well with the working class.

You're implying that the working class doesn't like leftism because they're too stupid. Consider the possibility that how you think about the working class might have something to do with why the working class doesn't like you.

And you have too many leftists that are completely disconnected from reality. This comes at the expense of the working class.

Anyone who has worked with someone that's from Eastern Europe or has read a history book documenting the famines in the Soviet Union or China are really going to be turned off by a conversation with a tankie. When leftists dismiss the plight of the working class in these countries as being minor details because there's a "bigger picture" that's more important? Yeah that's not going to fly with the working class. Obviously.

Really if leftists cared about reaching the working class they'd drop the use of the word "socialist" entirely. People obviously associate that word with the USSR, because that word is actually in the name of the country. But leftist care more about winning some debate (it's the university crowd) so feel like if they can successfully argue that socialism is good actually, they have achieved something. The working class should appreciate us for how clever we are!

But how clever is it to think that a socialist movement can have success without the working class? There's a lack of any kind of wisdom coming from leftism.