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Zohran Mamdani: A Rabbi Explained To Me Why "Globalize The Intifada" Makes Her Think Of Bombings (www.realclearpolitics.com)

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This backpedal comes right after meeting with AOC and Bernie Sanders. The two have rubbed their shitlib off on him. Previously he seemed to not be totally for or against (could have generously been seen as "hiding his power level") but now clearly against the phrase.

I still hope Zohran wins though. Him losing would be a big win for the pieces of shit in the media and in power looking to prove that even suggesting Israel might be doing something wrong is forbidden.

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[–] purpleworm@hexbear.net 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I won't pretend that I completely understand it, but there seems to be a real systematic element preventing it from happening. If you pivot right, you may lose popular will but you will get corporate backing because it makes sense that you'd be bought off. If you pivot left, you lose corporate backing, but why should the people trust someone who has either been a reactionary up until just now or lying to them this whole time?

And it makes sense in the respect that "hiding your power level" is fundamentally anti-democratic because you are subverting democratic choice by misleading the public about what it would mean to choose you. Turns out that tends to sit better with rightists for some reason . . .

[–] smokeppb@hexbear.net 4 points 5 days ago

fundamentally anti-democratic because you are subverting democratic choice by misleading the public about what it would mean to choose you. Turns out that tends to sit better with rightists for some reason . . .

That's a great point, leftist or at least center-left policies tend to be more popular than right wing ones so hiding power level is more beneficial to the right. And you're not going to hide your secret leftist views from the corporate interests so being shifty on the left only makes it look like your hiding something from the public.