The NYC chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America bashed the US Constitution as \u201ca rationalization of a pirate kingdom\u201d at a twisted workshop last week where it brainstormed ways to abolish the foundational backbone of the country.<\/p>\n
The \u201cHow to Write a Constitution\u201d workshop \u2014 led by a Los Angeles-born radical author who spent his early childhood in Kenya and whose middle name is Fidel \u2014 is part of nationwide leftist effort to abolish the US Senate<\/a>, Supreme Court, Electoral College and presidency.<\/p>\n \u201cThe US constitution is pushing toward a system that looks more and more authoritarian and is not compatible with some vision of Democratic change,\u201d\u00a0Boston College Law Professor Aziz Rana told the assembled crowd of about 25 people at the DSA\u2019s Lower East Side headquarters, whose red walls are plastered with pictures of the more famous Fidel<\/a>.<\/p>\n Boston College Law Professor Aziz Rana, a longtime constitution basher, led the DSA workshop. New York City Democratic Socialists of America \/YouTube<\/p>\n \u201cThere\u2019s a deep undemocratic element to it,\u201d he said, claiming that it \u201cempowers the state to engage in various forms of violence.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cIt might establish rights, but the rights are oftentimes going to be the rights of property holders,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Rana is regularly invited to speak or be interviewed at the organization\u2019s array of events around the country. His 2024 book, \u201cThe Constitutional Bind: How Americans Came to Idolize a Document that Fails Them,\u201d has been called by the DSA \u201ca blueprint for the left to return to agitating.\u201d<\/p>\n