The Democratic Socialists of America unveiled a nineteen-page framework on Friday to bring the American drive-thru under public ownership. Every intercom would be operated by a licensed community board. The fries, under the plan, become a shared civic asset.
Florida candidate Oliver Larkin is out front on this. He describes the lunch rush as "a market failure with ketchup on it." He wants your order taken by a committee.
Longtime Democratic strategist James Carville has spent the week warning his own party about exactly this sort of thing, and now you see why. He called them a pack of fools. Turns out he was being generous.
"No citizen should have to negotiate with a corporation for a hash brown," a DSA organizer said. "The second window is a commons."
Think about what this means. You pull up to that speaker at midnight, hungry, an American, and a volunteer working group asks whether your hunger is truly urgent. Nineteen minutes later they vote. You get a leaflet.
