Make California Post a Preferred Source Nithya Raman needs to know who her allies are — and they aren’t the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA).
Yes, Raman is a socialist, and sought the DSA’s endorsement for LA mayor. But the DSA is not trying to make her job any easier. Instead, it’s issuing threats.
As The California Post reported, the DSA of Long Beach issued a warning to the mayor-elect last week: Obey our agenda, or else.
“We call on her to govern as part of the movement that got her elected, not at arm’s length from it,” the DSA warned.
The DSA’s top priority? Taking action on “Palestine.”
It’s not enough for the DSA that Raman falsely accused Israel of “genocide.” The DSA wants her to cut off LA’s “economic support for a genocidal apartheid state,” whatever that means.
The DSA also wants Raman to keep her pledge to fire LAPD chief Jim McDonnell, and to impose further rent controls.
If she does not comply, the DSA warns, “we’ll bring the fight to her.”
We know what that means: The DSA plans to riot, as radicals did during the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 and the anti-ICE unrest of 2025.
The DSA’s threat, however ominous, gives Raman a golden opportunity to break from the organization.
Furthermore, Raman will not be judged by what she does for “Palestine,” but rather what she does for Compton, and Echo Park, and Pacific Palisades.
Raman’s job is to clean up the homeless problem, fix the streets, help the post-fire rebuilding effort, boost investment in housing, ensure public safety, and prepare for the Olympics.
Those priorities might not be interesting to the trust-fund revolutionaries of the DSA, but they are the only things voters care about.
The working classes that socialists used to pretend to represent want job opportunities, good public schools, and a reasonable cost of living.
If Raman focuses on the working men and women of LA, she can’t go wrong. Those are her true allies.
But if she takes her cues from extremists who are obsessed with the Middle East and ICE, she will fail.
LA voters do not want to deliver the city into the hands of a Marxist-Leninist clique whose ideological comrades have destroyed every society they have ever governed.
Raman should chart her own path — for the good of LA.
