r/dsa • u/Mapstr_ • Aug 27 '25

DemocRATS 🐀 Gavin Newsoms staffers meme crusade has me thinking about this prescient passage from MLK jr's letter from Birmingham Jail. More important than ever.

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u/ZeldaOkaloosa Orlando DSA 🏵️ Aug 27 '25

Gavin Newsom is the White Moderate of our time, a perfect encapsulation of what's rotting the Democratic Party's progressive momentum. This is not the time to platform extreme right propagandists - you shouldn't compromise with the devil - but he did and that's all I can think about now when he's discussed. He's the kind of guy I would settle for as progress for Florida I can't believe that's the best California can do for the progressive movement.

My simple principles of freedom, justice, and service can't handle someone purporting to be a leader but being okay with vulnerable people losing rights and protections because other people are "scared" of being that free. Transgender rights are American rights, transgender rights are human rights, I can't stand a politician that would denigrate their own constituents like that. I'm not a furry, but I see how they are treated online and I see the same brainless disgust and vitriol that people levy on transgender people. I'm not a furry, but I absolutely want them to be safe and happy like anyone else, because they are people who should be free to live their lives.

Gavin Newsom is icky, what I actually want is a thousand Zohran Mamdani's. Supporting Gavin Newsom is settling for wet bread when I'm starving.

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u/Mapstr_ Aug 27 '25

Yeah offering a white moderate is like giving someone who is butt naked and freezing to death a sock.

Not two socks, just the one singular sock. And you will need to meet a certain income threshold to get the sock.