It’s an earthquake to have Bernie Sanders’s candidate defeat Gretchen Whitmer’s candidate in Michigan. But the real goal is to keep Donald Trump’s candidate from winning this seat.
  • cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    23 days ago

    El-Sayed specifically said that he is not a socialist, so I don’t see why he’d fail to see full support for the general election. People confuse opposition to a specific label (a label with a great deal of negative baggage) with opposition to a specific set of policies.

    • emeralddawn45@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      101·
      23 days ago

      The Democrat establishment don’t confuse that. They are against socialist policies full stop, and they only use the socialist label to fearmonger in support of that .

    • NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io
      7·
      23 days ago

      People confuse opposition to a specific label (a label with a great deal of negative baggage) with opposition to a specific set of policies.

      No offense but that’s exactly what you did. The party establishment uses the socialism rhetoric to its advantage, but ultimately what they don’t want is for the rich to pay for their fair share.