Tomorrow evening the Minnesota Democratic Farmer-Labor Party State Central Committee will consider purging a leading party activist for the low political crime and not even a misdemeanor of challenging the progressive’s favorite candidate and losing badly in the primary.
Amazing how quickly the Democratic Socialists have forgotten how these purges were used against them. My Farmer Labor grandmother was accused of being a communist and her state convention delegate seat taken away in the late 1930s. In the early 1960s my grandfather along with the entire Carpenters Union Local executive board he served on were accused of being communists and removed from office. I’ve known my grandparents all my life and never saw even a shred of evidence they were communists and I don’t give a damn if they were. Fact is, they were purged not for their alleged political affiliation but because somebody else wanted their position and whatever power they though went with it. In the last couple decades I’ve had to attend a couple more of these inquisitions, and in both cases the inquisitors goal was clearly not punishing any wrongdoing but a plain old power grab. In this case, the accused is a devoted long term supporter of the DFL, it’s Outreach and Inclusion Committee, Labor, and her African American Community but as a reasonable DFL moderate she has incurred the wrath of the Democratic Socialists who want her seat on the DNC. After near a century of these unjustified power grabbing inquisitions it’s time to say no and quite purging our movements best leaders!
Sassy Democrat 