Mayor says progressive peers who swept primaries speak to Americans ‘coast to coast’ as moderates have reservations

Mayor says progressive peers who swept primaries speak to Americans ‘coast to coast’ as moderates have reservations

Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, said on Sunday that he and a slew of democratic socialist allies who prevailed in recent primary elections are carrying a “national message” to struggling working Americans hungry for a new kind of politics “coast to coast”.

Mamdani made that triumphant clarion call on ABC News’s This Week just five days after he had seen his endorsed candidates win Democratic nominations in three races for New York congressional seats, as well as for five state legislature positions in Albany. He made no effort to disguise his delight that his clean sweep marks a dramatic shift in Democratic politics – not just in New York City, which he has led since January, but also across the US.

He said that collectively they were carrying a “New Deal understanding” of Democratic politics to Congress and on to the “national stage”. It spoke, he said, to Americans feeling exhaustion at struggling to make ends meet “every single day”.

  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Because the same people who elected Mamdani because they liked what he said also like people who share his broad political persuasion?

    You just said what I said with different words.

    • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      6 days ago

      No, I really didn’t. Two people who have the same values coming to the same conclusions is not a coincidence.

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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        6 days ago

        It’s not two people, it’s thousands of people, and yes, it’s not a coincidence, that was my entire point. They’re voting for whom they’re told. It’s why endorsements are a thing in the first place.

        • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          6 days ago

          So if you and I and everyone here just happens to both think federated discussion boards are a good thing and all choose to spend our time here, the two options for why we do that are coincidence and because someone told us to so it?

          This philosophy of yours isn’t logical. You seem to be driven by your opinion on the results rather than any rational view on why multiple people would do the same thing.

            • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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              6 days ago

              You didn’t answer the question. Because your stance here is fucking stupid.

              • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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                6 days ago

                This is not an election, moron. If a large group of people had to choose exclusively and collectively one message board to be on, and it ended up being this one instead of fucking Instagram or Discord, I would posit the same position.

                  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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                    6 days ago

                    In a utopia, sure. This isn’t that. This is people voting for things they don’t understand because someone told them to.

                • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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                  6 days ago

                  Elections are choices, no different from anything else in life. And people make the same choices because they have the same desires. Expanding your position to any choice made by a large group of people just being someone telling them what to do makes it even stupider.

                  What else does this apply to? Littering is bad? Which movies are popular? Having a dog? 2+2=4? All of it dictated by a mind-controller rather than a similar decision reached by many people because they share similar likes, desires, and understandings of the world.

                  • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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                    6 days ago

                    Good decision moving away from your terrible analogy.

                    That’s the point though. They don’t all have the same desires. You’re missing the second part of this, which is the people who were voted out. People who had been voted for time and time again for decades.