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'Stop gaslighting me!': Florida Democrats' Senate nominee and party chair have heated call over socialism (www.axios.com)

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[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works -2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

But since winning, she(Nixon) moved fast to distance herself from several DSA positions, saying she doesn't back abolishing all prisons — just for-profit ones, she doesn't support "defunding" police or having so-called "open borders," and she disagreed with the national DSA's controversial commemoration of Fidel Castro.

Nixon's distancing seems very rational to me. I think don't this movement needs to have a mandate to magically get rid of all prisons and cops. Seriously, when's that going to happen? Not any time soon. Praise Castro? That guy that created a utopia in Cuba lol? That'll be so fucking popular lol. Seems like dipshits(or childishly naive people) or Republican saboteurs are running this party(which I've heard of for the first time today).

I really hope people don't support this party and make them the stupid face of Democratic Socialism.

edit: fucking downvoted. lol, good luck guys. i'm sure things will go as you want, what ever the fuck that is

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 21 minutes ago* (last edited 20 minutes ago)

To me, it's stupid.

She shouldn't even be answering questions about prisons or Castro. She should be answering any culture war question the way Zohran did, because every DSA candidate is going to have whatever dumb shit they said in 2014 dragged up and examined, as the billionaires who own the media outlets don't want anyone talking about affordability.

DSA's have the playbook. They just need to run the play. Republicans have made it laughably easy to win in November.

Have my upvote though, for at least giving a genuine opinion. You and I at least agree that a candidate letting themselves be forced into discussing culture war nonsense is stupid.