In Zohran Mamdani’s Win, Socialism Beat the Status Quo
In Zohran Mamdani’s Win, Socialism Beat the Status Quo
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In Zohran Mamdani’s Win, Socialism Beat the Status Quo
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Congrats New York, that's great he won. Please don't let him pull a Fetterman.
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Not likely. Fetterman has two huge issues that pull him towards MAGA: a) tons of MAGA voters he must appease, and b) the stroke that messed up his brain.
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Not an issue as Fetterman is a Zionist first politician posing as a working class hero.
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Hopefully this heralds the realignment of the Democrats back towards a pro-worker party. Neoliberalism has failed this country for 35 years.
Quomo is a comically bad candidate and Mamdani is a very good one so I don't think we can expect results like this in every primary. If progressives can keep finding highly qualified people I think we have a chance.
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Hopefully this heralds the realignment of the Democrats back towards a pro-worker party. Neoliberalism has failed this country for 35 years.
Did you see how hard the democratic establishment worked against him? Nah.
We need Bernie, AOC and some like minded folks to start a new party. Dems want to blame progressives for every loss? Fine. Give progressives a party full of established voices and known leaders. See how Dems do when NONE of the progressives give them a vote.
And holy shit I just may have realized why 2020 made D track right instead of left. They know the non-monied class is slowly realizing what they stand for, and need to peel off R votes.
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This is why 62% of Democrats say they need new leaders. The neoliberals (and their billionaire backers) are afraid of losing power while the ground-level party is already shifting. I'm not convinced that splitting off the progressives will be productive in our current electoral system. By the time the Democrats die off the fascists will have abolished elections. Instead I envision an outcome similar to the political realignment the GOP just finished, where a growing progressive caucus gains enough traction in primaries to force concessions from the party leadership until the neoliberals are all but pushed out entirely.
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I'm a DNC Strategist and I think the ONLY Reason people Voted for the Guy Promising to Help the Working Class is because Sexual Harasser Andrew Cuomo didn't have ENOUGH Billionaires backing Him! Next time we'll be SURE to get even MORE Billionaires like Elon Musk to Back our Candidates so their Message of "Fuck you" can REALLY Resonate with our Voters!
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Socialism = anything that helps anyone.
Got it.
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I mean, yeah, that's the problem that a lot of political commentary has right now, but Mamdani is explicitly a member of the DSA.
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socialism
noun
so·cial·ism ˈsō-shə-ˌli-zəm
any of various egalitarian economic and political theories or movements advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
Not anyone. Billionaires will not be helped by this.
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Let's see some socialist policies then
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I predict that some of his policies will blow up in his face when they don't work and then there will be a conservative backlash against democrats in the next election. Happened in SF
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