Our hopes for a better world—more egalitarian, more just, more humane—once found expression in the Democratic Socialists of America.Many of us have been members of DSA since its founding in 1982—some of us in leadership positions—as well as activists in the organizations and movements from which DSA emerged. We embraced a vision of a democratic political order in which ordinary people had real voice in the decisions that affect their lives. The welfare and needs of the many would take precedence