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”.

  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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    6 days ago

    And those votes were a real expression of individual preference, but these votes are fake?

    The circumstances and electorate changed and they elected someone they liked more. People currently aren’t happy to continue with the status quo and Mamdani’s win inspired voters who thought change was impossible to become active.

    And they don’t have the exact same desires, but they have viewpoints that are aligned enough such that, when given a handful of options, more choose the Democratic Socialist than the centrist because they liked that choice more. Sorry your personal viewpoint, which is presumably the only non-sheep viewpoint in existence, was thoroughly rejected.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Nothing changed except the endorsements.

      We can argue about this all the livelong day but there’s no way to measure this. All you can do is apply logic and reason. Mine tells me they were commanded by someone they liked telling them what to do and they did it. Yours tells you its a coincidence that thousands of people all came to the same unconventional decision individually. We’re done here.

      • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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        6 days ago

        Hey you! Keep breathing.

        There, now if you keep breathing then you’re only doing it because I told you to. I can’t believe you would surrender your own free will to me that easily. What, do you really expect me to believe it was just a coincidence that you kept breathing after I told you to? What a brainless sheep.

        • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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          6 days ago

          This is a sad attempt to misinterpret was I was saying entirely. And since you’re going through this whole thread harrassing me about every comment, you’re being blocked now. Goodbye.

          • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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            6 days ago

            Not even a little bit. It’s the same flawed logic you’re using.

            And I’m not harassing you. Just because you’re so wrong that a bunch of people tell you you’re wrong, and they don’t relent even when you double-down about how right you think you are and how everyone else is the dumbass, doesn’t mean the people disagreeing with you are harassing you.

            Go ahead and block me though, that’s just one less dumbass I have to encounter on the fediverse.

      • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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        6 days ago

        LOL. “Nothing changed”? Yeah this time period has just been boring monotony. Jesus fucking Christ you can’t be real.