Frankly, he may win because of them. It’s like a crazy political Streisand-effect thing they are doing with him I swear to god. I wouldn’t know who he is if not for how the corporatist Dems have treated him, and I suspect it helped his primary win, too.
Dems are great at self sabotage, even if they have to skip primaries to do it.
The democrats have always had primaries some people ignore the fact they happened because they didn’t like the outcome.
Most of the DNC don’t disagree with what the tangerine mussolini is doing. They just hate that it’s not them doing it.
Their problem is not what he’s doing, it’s how he’s doing it: He’s too obvious, which increases the risk of a popular
backslashbacklash against the billionaires who fund both parties.It’s style, not substance.
what in the what?
They’re fighting Trump though! I’ve peeked a couple of times at the Democrat subreddit and it’s always “some democrat saying some MEAN one-liner towards Trump during some hearing! #resist”.
50 more of those one-liners and Trump will feel soooo bad and quit being a president, which will fix literally everything (great man theory)!
Ikr? They’re always “slamming” him
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I’m not going to get excited until Mamdani wins and actually does what he promises. Speeches and vocal support aren’t worth anything anymore.
Still, solid meme that makes a good point.
Fair, but do show up and vote please
I always vote, not that it matters.
It does matter, but its also just one part of building out our progressive movement
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I don’t doubt Mamdani, I doubt the NYC City Council. They’re gonna be a huge roadblock.
Yes, but Mamdani has shown his willingness to fight for us. Even if he can’t pull off all his agenda, it’s still better than the alternative candidates who won’t even try.
Good point.
It may just be me, but Mamdani just reminds me very much of 2007-2008 Obama, who himself was massively popular and saying all the right things, and then opted to rule as a conservative and helped usher along US fascism in the end.
I feel Mamdani might be different since he openly and unflinchingly said he doesn’t like capitalism, something that many politicians are afraid to do. And he is a member of DSA which Obama isn’t a member of so that is something of a solid credential for Mamdani. But only time will tell if he sticks to his promises and conviction.
He’s saying a lot of the right things.
The question is what he’ll do when he realizes that being the mayor of NYC means he and his family have the opportunity to accrue generational wealth if they just play ball with the bad guys. Obama’s answer to that was: “I’ll do whatever you want.”
Anyone can do anything, so obviously we can’t say definitively what Mamdani might do, but comparing him to Obama is disingenuous nonsense. Obama never said the workers owning the means of production was the ultimate goal; he was never a socialist and never espoused leftist beliefs personally, regardless of policy.
Furthermore, all Obama did was talk about hope and change. He coasted into office on empty rhetoric, whereas Mamdani has been crystal clear about his policy goals right from the start. Saying a politician could bail once in office is reasonable, but comparing these two is unbounded idiocy.
I hope I’m wrong. Time will tell.
Did Obama actually said that? I don’t know if it’s true, but I heard that Obama told Bernie that he can’t be the good guy and be president.
Corruption aside, once getting into position of political power, it is actually harder to maintain it because of different stakeholders involved. Take the military industrial complex, for example. We rightly chastise its profit taking motive by artificially inducing wars. But the sad truth is that they are jobs providers to peripheral places where there are little to no opportunities for many, especially in the desert states in the American Southwest and in isolated regions of Scotland and Northern England in the case of UK. No politicians want to be branded as jobs destroyer.
Even without the opportunity for personal corruption, balancing genuine concerns and interests is a hard juggling act for any politicians. And that’s not even including campaign financing and its trap of being beholden to the donor. Unfortunately, there is strong correlation between electoral success and how much money is thrown into the campaigning. It is one factor as to why the Citizens United was allowed by the US Supreme Court.
Did Obama actually said that?
Absolutely he did. He stood aside when Occupy was brutalized. He did nothing meaningful to help consumers during the foreclosure crisis. He gave the MIC seven wars at once during his presidency. (Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia, Yemen, Syria, and Libya.) He made sure the big banks got their bailouts. His promise of universal health care morphed into ‘access to health care’, which of course, only existed if you could absorb being price-gouged for your insurance.
Hell, he walked into Flint and pretended to take a drink of water as a political stunt, when he and everyone in that room knew their water was still poisoned with lead.
Obama was a massively corrupt president, and one of the biggest disappointments in American history.
only existed if you could absorb being price-gouged for your insurance.
The last time i tried to get insurance on the exchange, they said it would be 5 thousand dollars.
I said “5000 dollars a year? that seems high”
they said “Oh, no sir. 5000 dollars a month”
I said “Goodbye” and hung up.
Obama was never anywhere close to socialist and was already deep in the political game when elected, this is why he was successful in his role, he accrued political capital in his time in Senate by “dealing with the bad guys.” They are from very different places playing very different games going into very different roles.
And we have to expect every politician is going to “deal with the bad guys” because that’s how you play. Vast sums of virtual and real wealth change hands behind closed doors and through policy decisions, this isn’t the “bad” in what makes for “bad guys” in politics, what makes it bad is the source of this money and how it’s being used by outside forces like corporations seeking specific agendas to make their shareholders even wealthier.
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He also could have forced through single-payer healthcare if he wanted, the ACA is a watered down, conservative-designed alternative. There were many ways that Obama established a set-in precedent for Democrats basically becoming the modern conservative party as the Republicans pushed so far right without actual political or cultural opposition that they threw the overton window out into the fucking sea.
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Time, and a constant light show around him to help any would-be assassins miss.
I’m not going to get excited until
Our future survival as a species depends on teaching ourselves and our kids to find the reasonable line to ride between getting prematurely excited and letting our emotions getting exploited, and sinking into absolute, checked-out, fucking apathy and this is a tall order because the majority of Americans, and much of the larger developed world, fall into one of those two camps and few people in between, because measured, thoughtful responses and appropriate emotional investment and momentum is just not as easy to rally behind and make memes about.
Nothing inspires apathy like the 40 years of Democrats doing the wrong thing and making it so food and shelter are cost-prohibitive for tens of millions.
I’ll believe Mamdani is the real deal when he shows me. It’s unreasonable to expect Democrats to do the things they say they’re going to do.
You are worried about that over them cheating him over? Wtf make it make sense
Democrats facing Trump: “We tried nothing and we’re all out of options”
It’s the party of status quo. Appeasement while they court the progressives and disallow the progressives to run for office
Now that Newsom’s pushing through the redistricting vote there’s a chance some actual progressives can run in the new districts. If they’re brazen enough they can gain some power but only if they fight for it.
A vast majority of Democrats support Mamdani, in legislative chambers state and federal and especially in polls. That’s why Zohran Mamdani IS A DEMOCRAT.
That vast majority excludes every one in a leadership position in the party.
Ah yes, those people. The ones we all know. “The establishment.”
Vote blue no matter who!
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Notice how democrats only demand choices when the left wing candidate wins the primary but theyll demand eveyone fall behind the right wing candidate when they win. I wonder where all the vote blue no matter who people went.
I wonder where all the vote blue no matter who people went.
FWIW this shit is getting about as old as the “wondering aloud about people who thought Trump would be better for Palestine” comments.
I wonder where all the vote blue no matter who people went.
They’re all still working for and with Republicans.
Vote NYC !
The inverse applies to Trump. He is a T-rex to his fellow Americans and allies, but a Barnie to Putin.
I’d stop calling them democrats, mercenaries is much more appropriate
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Yeah man. It’s crazy how democrats aren’t all in the streets fighting this shit en masse.
Oh, you just wanted to blame the politicians. K.
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Yeah I bet Mandan will have a ~50% voter turnout too because the only thing democrats are worse at than protesting is voting.
Hey, they had this one protest that one time where more than 300 people showed up!
What are dems saying about him?
We all know they are just the other side of the uniparty
They’re trying to paint him as a radical. He has Hakeem scrambling to discredit and disparage him any time he’s in front of a mic and asked. So I’m guessing his donor puppeteers are shaken up too.
