00:00The Democratic Socialists of America, the political party of New York City Mayor Zoram
00:04Memdani, rails against the rich. It's the pillar of the entire party. But a newly serviced survey
00:10suggests a bunch of party members are making six-figure salaries. The DSA member survey
00:16report from 2021 showed that as many as 28 percent of its members made more than $100,000 a year.
00:2256 percent had office jobs in academia, tech, health care, and other white-collar work.
00:26It's likely five years later those numbers have gone up. That's what happens with time.
00:32More than 80 percent of those surveyed were college-educated and 35 percent had an advanced
00:37degree, more than twice the national average. The group refused to include this type of data
00:41in its more recent 2025 survey. Critics are looking at the numbers and saying this could show a fair
00:47amount of hypocrisy among members. Former New York City Council Minority Leader Joe Borelli said,
00:52quote, you have to give them credit for convincing people who are 180 degrees different from them
00:57that these trust fund socialists are speaking up for their best interests. They don't know the
01:02working class, but they have read a lot of books on them. The socialist organization, which reached
01:07100,000 members in February, saw a massive demographic shift in the mid-2010s. Younger members,
01:14galvanized by Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders' presidential run, were flocking to a party that had previously
01:19been an organization made up mostly of aging hippies and retirees. In 2013, the median age was 68. By
01:262021, it dropped to 33, with the majority of members millennials or Gen Zs.
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