“What would it be like to live in a world without Capitalism?” a Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) leader asks, before describing her party’s vision of creating a workers’ paradise – where people don’t have to work, because they don’t have bills, and are free to do whatever they like.
In an hour-long video laying out DSA’s “Workers Deserve More” program launch published Wednesday, DSA’s National Political Education Chair Michaela Brangan portrays Democratic Socialism as the author of a worry-free society that enables people to do as they please:
“What would it be like to live in a world without Capitalism - to live in a world where you can take a day off and you don’t hate your job and you don’t feel like, if you quit it, or, like, wanted to do something else, that you would starve to death or get kicked out of your home or not be able to pay for your medicine?”
What’s more, without Capitalism, “bills are no longer a thing,” so people would be free to take time off from work whenever they want to, Brangan claims:
“You're able to take a day off and not have to worry.
“And you don't have to have a job just to pay the bills, because you don't have a lot of bills, right?
“Bills are no longer a thing - because there's not for-profit businesses that are constantly trying to exploit you and trying to, you know, put you into debt.”
“And then you might just have like a normal day, right, like you could you could actually have the freedom to move around,” Brangan says.
Brangan claims, without evidence, that Socialism provides “freedom,” enabling people to “flourish,” “thrive,” and “be themselves,” because their basic needs are provided for by others:
“And so, part of what we’re trying to do is to dispel the idea that Socialism is just about, like, bureaucracy, meetings, order, or anything like that. It actually is about freedom. It is about people being free to be themselves.
“It’s about people being able to actually flourish under a system where they’re not constantly being exploited and where they’re not constantly worried about the basic things it takes to live.
“If you don’t have to worry about the basic things it takes to live, then you can thrive, right? And then you can actually lead your life, instead of just survive.”
The Democratic Socialists of America has rolled out a new platform calling for sweeping changes, including defunding the Department of War, reparations, wealth taxes, expanding the House of Representatives, and replacing the Supreme Court with a judiciary chosen by Congress,… pic.twitter.com/D45vRPZueG
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 15, 2026
