"For the working class to govern, we need a new political system. End political corruption and legalized bribery: get rid of lobbyists, dark money, and Citizens United, and publicly finance all elections. Abolish the Electoral College. Replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress." - DSA https://program.dsausa.org/'
Governing is a term we associate with elected representatives. It is how a democratic republic operates by the definition of both terms. Look them up. I use the OED. We elect representatives in the United States of America in each state by voting for them. The illustration of voting at the ballot box, as illustrated by the DSA, [I illustrated my own version, here] is denied by the cross-out which DSA did. In all states, voting in a general election in November every two, four, and six years is the means of electing Congress and the Presidency.
What, exactly, is this "new political system" which seems to have avoided description by the DSA? They identify what to abolish, i.e., "... political corruption and legalized bribery: get rid of lobbyists, dark money, and Citizens United... Abolish the Electoral College. Replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress."
What Congress? DSA would abolish Congress [the proposal is still called "Congress," but it deducts, rather than augments the number of representatives in Part 7]. So who is this new "Congress" that suddenly appears to appoint our President and the Supreme Court, rather than being elected by voters in the case of the presidency? DSA identifies us as "working class," but does that describe all who "work," let alone vote? Even the billionaires? Some of them work; some are retired. doesn't the "working class" retire, too?
But in the view of DSA, billionaires should not be part of this "Real Democracy." How democratic is that? DSA claims "the working class" should govern. Time was, every member of Congress was a working-class before election. Real Democracy, right now, and then, since before 1776. I was educated about that in my day. Remember "education?" The free one that still exists, now, through high school if one is sufficiently self-motivated to finish, and does not need to be re-created.
Abolishing the Electoral College would assure that only the most populated States would elect our Presidents and Vice Presidents. By a popular vote [DSA's suggestion], the maximum number of States needed to elect a President is 24 States, the most populated States. With the Electoral College, 40 of the least populated States are necessary to elect a President. Which is the most democratic system in your view: 24 or 40 States?
And let's not ignore the last zinger, that the appointed President, and the Supreme Court would be "subordinate" to, and not co-equal with Congress in DSA's fantasy world. Which version sounds to you more "democratic?" Democratic Socialists of America, or the Democrats who used to be a rational political party in Kennedy's day, and even Clinton's? Does anybody personally remember them? My hand is up. Anybody else?