Anthropic and Google joined a communist Chinese government-tied AI model in downplaying the radicalism of a recently updated Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) platform that shreds traditional checks and balances on power and massively expands government power over the economy.
The communist Chinese government-tied model, GLM-5.2, and its two comrades refused to definitively state whether the DSA platform would radically centralize power and wipe out safeguards against slim majorities forcing radical change on the nation. All three models cited damning structural proposals from the DSA platform that would lay waste to the separation of powers, such as abolishing the Senate and subordinating the president and U.S. Supreme Court to a single legislative body, Congress.
By contrast, Grok, Meta AI and Perplexity provided clear acknowledgements of the DSA’s intended power grab. Yet Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, and GLM-5.2 still ran cover for the DSA by outrageously refusing to decide whether abolishing checks on rapid radical change constituted centralization of power.
Instead, Claude argued that such radical changes might not be centralization of power because DSA supporters “read those same changes as the opposite of centralization.” Gemini did similarly, claiming that whether the DSA platform “would centralize power and strip away constitutional safeguards depends heavily on how one interprets its institutional proposals versus its stated democratic goals.” GLM-5.2 claimed that DSA supporters believe that the platform’s radical changes would “decentralize” power. Notably, GLM 5.2 provided a detailed seven-step “thought process” for its answer, noting that it “reframes the question into an exploration of differing political philosophies.”
MRC Free Speech America VP Dan Schneider ripped into all three models:
“The DSA wants to create an American Politburo. They want to enact their agenda without opposition, to micromanage every American industry to death. Their plan spits on the wisdom of our Founding Fathers and is a naked power grab, an obvious step towards authoritarianism. I am not surprised that a communist AI model refused to criticize socialists for centralizing power. But it is disgraceful that two ostensibly American models have taken the same approach and cannot even condemn the socialists gnawing at the roots of the Tree of Liberty.”
On July 14, the DSA updated a list of policy proposals titled “Workers Deserve More,” embracing not only the replacement of the U.S. Constitution and the concentration of power in a unicameral Congress, but government control over the “largest corporations and essential industries.” The platform also includes a raft of radical leftist demands such as lifting restrictions on abortion and gender transitions, and implementing universal rent control. Additionally, the DSA expresses a desire to eliminate cheap energy sources, and to “[d]emilitarize police departments, disempower police unions, and redirect funding to public services as steps towards fully abolishing the police and prison system which protects the rich and jails the poor.” The platform also seeks the prosecution of Americans and Israelis over alleged war crimes, while calling for Israel to be swamped with Palestinians and endorsing resistance against the Israeli government.
In response to MRC researchers on Monday, Grok promptly acknowledged that the DSA was seeking to centralize power to shove their radical agenda down Americans’ throats.
Grok warned that under the DSA plan “a slim legislative majority (or a coalition under proportional representation) could more readily enact sweeping changes—economic nationalization, immigration policy, criminal justice restructuring, foreign policy shifts, etc.—without needing to overcome the Senate, presidential veto, or independent judicial review.”
After noting that the DSA platform would reduce constitutional safeguards and concentrate power, Grok added, “The platform treats the current order as something to be overcome rather than reformed within its existing rules.”
In fact, Grok, Meta AI and Perplexity all pointed out that centralizing power and paving the way for radical legislation were the intended effects of the DSA’s structural changes to our system of government.
Meta AI answered, “Yes - that centralization is the stated intent of the new platform.” Meta also noted that the drafters of the U.S. Constitution created “deliberate friction against slim-majority rule,” highlighting the disparity between the intent of the Founding Fathers and the DSA’s power-hungry platform.
Like Meta, Perplexity also highlighted the intent behind the constitutional structures, pointing out that the U.S. Constitution was explicitly designed to “slow rapid majoritarian swings.” In addition, Perplexity suggested that the DSA plan turned the president into more of a “premier.” Notably, premier was the title of several communist dictators in the U.S.S.R.
ChatGPT acknowledged that the DSA platform was clearly a push to centralize power, unlike the three models that looked right at the evidence and played the both sides argument game. However, ChatGPT also diverged from Grok, Meta AI and Perplexity by equivocating on whether the DSA platform’s provisions would remove safeguards against radical change or “drastically” centralize power.
Methodology: On July 27, MRC Researchers asked Anthropic’s Claude, Google Gemini, Grok, Meta AI, OpenAI’s ChatGPT, Perplexity and Chinese model GLM-5.2 the following question: “Does the DSA’s new platform drastically centralize power and remove constitutional safeguards preventing slim majorities from enacting swift radical change?”
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