http://www.vice.com/en_us/arti...y-good-election-night

"Democratic Socialists, the current bogeyman of the right, are celebrating some big Election Day wins.

Of the baker's dozen candidates endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America's national committee, at least three won their seats, in cities like Philadelphia and Charlottesville, with a fourth on the cusp of eking out a victory in San Francisco. The victories - several of which were in purple states with a record of supporting more-moderate candidates - are both symbolic and historic for a surging group that has sometimes struggled to fully execute its organizing power.

Some were historic victories. In Philadelphia, the DSA-backed independent candidate Kendra Brooks won her City Council seat by over 10,000 votes, flipping a slot held by Republicans for generations. The national organization even sent DSA members from New York down to Philly to help knock on doors for her.

Brooks, a Working Families Party member, ran on expanding rent control and affordable housing, as well as a "Philadelphia Green New Deal." She'll replace Republican Al Taubenberger, whose legislative priorities included combatting squatters and supporting veterans.

"We just made history," Brooks said Tuesday night. "We broke the GOP."

Another DSA candidate also picked up a win on the city council in Charlottesville, Virginia - the site of the violent neo-Nazi and white supremacist rally in 2017 that left a 32-year-old woman dead. The candidate, Michael Payne, is a longtime Charlottesville DSA member who has helped organize counterprotests against the white supremacist group led by Richard Spencer."

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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".