New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, once a figure of contention among leaders from both major political parties, has seen a remarkable surge in his political standing just six months into office.
The 34-year-old democratic socialist, a prominent figure on the progressive left, has garnered unexpected praise from both Donald Trump and New York Governor Kathy Hochul.
He has also emerged as the face of the region’s sports renaissance. Now, days before New York’s primary elections,
As he should. We need to take any populist progressive momentum we have and use it to run the Democrats out of town. Along with the republicans. The two parties are just a black hole of corporate money.
Because, you know, he has and will continue to reject that money. Because he is so great and has such great ethics and morals…
Totally wouldn’t become the exact same thing. Or worse.
Good?
you know mamdani is still a democrat right? He is still approved by the richoids of america, y’know the guys who’ve been terrorizing the world for decades, and he already gave up on being anti cop. Ultimately guys like him are just there to fool you that the system can be change by voting, doing slight improvement so the system survives until it can take those improvements away.
They fought tooth and nail to keep him from winning, just like they did Bernie.
It’s just a show. He is still there, not to mention Bernie sanders is also a Zionist who turns American rage at the system into votes for democrats. I mean come on, Zoharan said he’d defund the police, where is that now?
The system has improved by voting. Like, take a quick gander through history. We’re in a down trend right now, and we need to fight, and fight to improve the system, but to deny that the system can change by voting is to deny history
No, the system never ever improved by voting. It only ever improved in response to fear of revolution, and any “improvement” through voting was nothing more than a temporary concession, Britain used to be the face of social democracy then Thatcher came and since then standard of living has been constantly getting lower, Obama brought Obama care(which was absolutely not enough) because Occupy wallstreet happened, then trump came and gutted it. You can’t change and improve a system that’s built to keep you down, by working from inside of it
As I said. Denying history.
When has ever long lasting improvement came from voting then?
14th amendment ring any bells?
19th amendment?
24th?
You think these changes came just from magic? No, they came from concentrated work of activist groups, and that strongly includes elections. You underestimate the effect of pushing people into elections that are sympathetic to the causes, even if it’s not too many.
These were results of constant battles and fighting until the ruling class was forced to give concessions.
Occupy Wall Street: 2011
Obamacare: 2010
You’re 19.
Have a snack.
liberals are going to be shocked when his successors revert everything good he’s done, as always
Fell for it again rewards for all americans
We truly is reshaping and healing the state of NYC.
I’m not partial to some of his politics, but he seems like a genuinely good guy. Both parties need more good and young guys and gals, Republicans most of all, but Democrats too.
Any chance you could share which of his politics you find disagreeable? Is it his views on the genocide that pissrael is comitting in Palestine?
With enough people like Mamdani, we could finally advance beyond a two party system.
They changed the rules. We will never see anything other than the Democratic Republicans in the US
Oh, so we can get even less shit passed through Congress?
Perhaps.
Not if it’s still FPTP. Spoiler effect is too strong, more split “left” means right wins
Maybe the centrists could comprom…I’m not sure what that word is or what I was trying to use it for.
Explains why NYC elected Mamdani with ranked choice voting, then! Any candidate in favor of FPTP wants the right to win.
Mamdani only won 50%……in NEW YORK CITY.
He’s a literal socialist IN THE USA.
50 PERCENT IN NYC
The party of old rich white billionaire needs to fresh new faces for sure.
They’re both the party of old rich white billionaires…
We can only hope that this is true. I’ll buy it when I see it in Illinois.
“We were surprised to discover that, underneath all the bullshit, people just want happiness, peace and opportunity”.
I think you mean ‘well produced video content and a new kind of personally affable politician’!
As long as he does progressive things, cool, but I think he’s a plant to the stark contrast that is DJT. American politics just don’t change.
Planted by whom? The democrat establishment that dragged their feet on giving him any support whatsoever? The republicans who were urging their own candidate to drop out in order to give Cuomo an edge? High roller donors who were desperately trying to prop Cuomo up? Seems like the entire establishment across the political spectrum was against Mamdami. The wealthy and powerful clearly did not want him in office, I don’t think there was some 5D chess gambit behind their opposition.
We must have watched different mayorital races. Cuomo very much phoned in the whole run and was showing up just to show up. He also netted less donations than both Mamdani and his previous mayor run (~$40 mill difference [2018], which may as well be $40 dollars). Since then Mamdani has very much gotten the Obama treatment. I very much suspect he’s going to run for President in my lifetime and win. I also very much think he’s a manchurian candidate.
I don’t think he would be a bad president by any means - I’d vote for him, like I don’t think he’s going to turn heel and we all find out he’s republican or anything, I think it’s just part of balancing the status quo being upkept in American Politics.
I very much suspect he’s going to run for President in my lifetime and win.
Isn’t he born in Uganda, disqualifying him from being a candidate for President?
TIL - Conspiracy Theory Debunk’d. Thanks for the realization.
He’s six months in and like ⅔ of the way through his campaign promises. And that’s with standing against ICE and dealing with both an extreme winter and and extreme summer. He defeated multiple establishment-backed candidates. And he’s managed to do this all without any major scandal.
Plus, if this is a psyop by the right, it’s absolutely backfiring. Mamdani is showing the electorate how a government can work for its people. That’s good for people, but terrible for the establishment.
I realize where the cynicism comes from, but “just don’t change” is always true right up until it isn’t.
I agree and hope you’re right.
Got anything to back that up?
Nope, it’s all opinion based on his interactions between high level individuals. Last time I posted my opinion on it the moderators here removed it as conspiracy theories - which is valid, as they are that.
You’re not going to get leftist polices from democrats. Vote left.
He’s a DSA member! I’d call him a DINO if he wasn’t evidently reshaping it.
I’ll vote third party as soon as the next guy, but if the Democrats decide to run an actually good candidate, then I’m not holding a grudge.
I’m not an American, so I could be incredibly wrong here, but don’t you have a two party system? If you don’t vote Democrat, who do you vote for?
The US has over 50 parties, depending on where you vote.
Democrat, Republican, Green, Libertarian, Constitution, Peace and Freedom, No Labels, Progressive, Socialist, etc
Then why do I only ever see ® or (D) behind names in your government? Why don’t I hear about the Green party candidate for Senate, or the Libertarian in a state legislature? I mean, you say there are other parties, but if they exist surely someone from one of them has made it into the government of a state or to the federal level at some point.
Not trying to be argumentative here, just trying to understand.
You’re probably watching shitty corporate news that’s intentionally trying to tell their viewers that the only option is the 1 party (both democrats and republican parties are nearly identical when you zoom out to include progressive policies)
The US has great independent media. Try reading something run by a nonprofit that does not take money from corporate sponsors.
CBC BBC Reuters…
And it’s not just them, but those tend to be my primary y news sources.
Diversion aside, can you name any examples of non Democrat or Republican legislators at the state or federal level?
Yeah and not a single one is actually relevant outside of the big two.
This is not true for voters who have rank choice
They are relevant only if they can act as spoilers for one of the big two parties.
The person you replied to is trying to help make things even worse. Especially in a post about primaries, which Are the opportunities to make things better.
Isn’t he self-described as a “democratic socialist”? (I mean, his faction aren’t super radical socialist as far as I’m aware, in terms of trying to bring about a workers democracy. The NYC “city run” grocery stores are just contacted out, not actually city run. But hey, it’s way, way, way better than what other US political factions are doing)
Democratic Socialist =/= Socialist.
Mild steps away from the neoliberal consensus are necessary perquisites to break the back of the propaganda machine.
baby steps, baby steps.
Electing someone who is actually DOING STUFF for the city he’s elected to run? I mean, yeah we should totally hate that. 😩
TBF he’s renegged on a lot of his plans and watered down all of his enacted ones.
Pretty normal for the DNC.
Yeah, wtf is wrong with Mamdani.
Doesnt he know hes supposed to make big promises, then do none of it while giving handies to CEOs in his office before selling his citizens out for literal pennies per person?
electing someone who even understands what their job even is seems to be a welcome change. Schumer claims his whole job is keeping the dems in line with what a foreign power wants. And a bunch of Dems in congress seem to agree. Thats not their job at all. And that rot goes top to bottom through both parties. The president and judiciary also dont seem to understand what their jobs are anymore. Cops too, no frickin idea what they do exactly.
Cops document events and threaten violence. Well, instigate violence as well, but only the Rotten Apples™.
Good and carry on. The USA needs a progressive left president too.
Republicans, propping up Mamdani?
Interesting strategy. But you know what they say, never interrupt your enemy while they’re making a fatal mistake.
Let’s hope it works out EXACTLY as well for them as Hillary’s Pied Piper strategy of boosting Trump did!
Optimal tip-to-tip efficiency?
Seems pretty good
Amazing what electing somebody who wasn’t born in the 1940s can do!
There are tons of young fascists.
Thanks to Beijing’s TikTok psyop theres a brand new generation of fascists from the USA to Germany.
The fascists are on Russia. They have literally been funding right wing extremism all across Europe and the world for decades, as a matter of stated intent and strategy and they’ve been caught doing it straight up.
Tiktok only exacerbates the issue, but make no mistake, Russia bears by far the biggest part of the blame.
are there? hard to say with none of them in charge of anything. So where’d you se that, some TV show?
Seems to me when we get the oldsters out of the way, a lot of problems also go away. ever notice how racism and sexism is much more prevalent and “normal” with older people? Stands to reason that putting those people in care homes and out of power would make drastic improvements to society.
Are you familiar with the Joshua Generation at all? Literally a training ground for christo-fascists that trained former and current senators.
There’s absolutely young fascists currently in charge. Heck “DOGE” was nothing but a bunch of 20 somethings allowed to enact part of their fascist wet dream.
Putting the blame on age and not class is why you’re getting so ratiod
Ratioed? Kharma’s not a thing here so who cares. And maybe I’ve just met more old people than you have.
Also your Joshua generation thing doesnt show a prevalance for idiocy in youth, just that some exists. Idiocy in the elderly is a fact of life. Brains dont get better as they age, and the context they grew up in doesnt keep up with the times they live into. I dont care if people like it, people dont get smarter or more relevant to the times as they age.There’s not karma but it’s still a good sign of how many people disagree with your argument and experience.
Your original comment was to someone saying “there’s plenty of young fascists”. Didn’t say anything about prevalence, just that there’s enough to be a problem. That’ prevalence argument is bullshit you added. You’ve said they aren’t in charge of anything. You were given direct evidence of examples of young fascists existing and being in charge of things.
You trying to make it an age based thing is just asking for trouble because it’s setting up complacency instead of fighting the fascists no matter who they are.
“I’ve met more old people than you” is such a dumb and weak argument I legitimately don’t even know where to begin there.
That’ prevalence argument is bullshit you added.
No. Using inductive thinking is the bullshit you started with. You cant use a small sample size to make generalizations across a group of people. You have to deal with any discussion of a group of people by talking about them in terms of proportionality or percentages. You cant say “mushroommonk on Lemmy doesnt underdstand the most basic logic, so clearly no one on Lemmy understands basic logic.” Thatd be bullshit. Get it?
Except the group being discussed is the group of young fascists. That’s it. The entire group is the ones that exist. Your false equivalence trying to extrapolate from there is adding another group.
Please just go learn some basic reading comprehension. I’m not the only one to point this out.
I’m out
Teachers are having trouble with boys as young as 8 not listening to them because the manosphere tells them they shouldn’t respect women.
Pretty much everyone went to school with some Young Conservative type who was weirdly into politics at a young age.
JD Vance?
At the very least, the younger generation would have less lead to addle their brains.
Or at least different kinds of addling. Although, I suspect that algorithmic social media does less long term damage than persistent developmental lead poisoning (SERIOUSLY, WHAT THE FUCK? LEADED GASOLINE?)
already has made drastic improvement everywhere else in the world outside of the USA, Israel, Russia…
all still run by rapidly aging boomers.
I think it depends on your definition of “young”, but there are the folks like Kyle Rittenhouse, Jacob Chansley, Ben Shapiro, and tons of other netizens younger than Joe Rogan with their hate-mongering podcasts. Being emboldened in the way they are, more seem to be popping out of the woodwork instead of being shamed or reformed into better viewpoints.
So if you can name 4 shitty young people then all young people are shitty, thats your assertion?
Unfortunately, these are all young people with a vast following of young people. Not to mention Charlie Kirk, Andrew Tate…
Young people skew left and that’s a fact, it’s not a supermajority like it might seem on places like this.
They are exemplars of what befuddled you from the other poster’s note of young fascists out there. Forget about that and just look towards basic reading comprehension to better prepare you for understanding complex concepts like examples.
Oh god. I didn’t do this math. This means that the same people in that age bracket were kids glued to the TV during all the McCarthy-era bullshit. No wonder.
don’t forget decades of breathing aerosolized lead!
Not to mention global radioactive contamination from nuclear weapons testing and the occasional reactor meltdown!
To be fair I think this guy has actual talent for this kind of work.
