I was sobered to see some of the details of the revised DSA platform.

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92. Please don't gaslight me. It says it right in the official, published DSA Platform.

Accusing someone of "repeating Trump talking points" doesn't erase the actual text of the platform. I am talking about literal policy documents, not campaign hyperbole.

The official, published Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) platform explicitly calls for:

👉️ "Social ownership of all major industry and infrastructure"
👉️ "The nationalization of businesses like railroads, utilities, and critical manufacturing and technology companies"
👉️ "The abolition of prisons" --- specifically endorsing the "8 to Abolition" framework.

It's one thing to be talking about mainstream Democratic goals like closing for-profit prisons and lowering healthcare costs, which I already explicitly stated I agree with. But it's a mistake for anyone to use those popular, mainstream goals to obscure the actual, radical platform items that the DSA publishes under its own name.

As I said before, when a platform demands the nationalization of industry and the abolition of prisons, it forces loyal Democratic candidates in competitive districts into an impossible defensive crouch. When a mainstream Democrat in a purple or competitive-red district is trapped into explaining those extremes of DSA branding to independent swing voters... or when time is spent trying to distance themselves from those extremes... they are losing.