Almost like there is a large, unmet demand for leftist politicians at the national level. Hmm, no, couldn't possibly be it.
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I don't even know if it's that. I wonder how much of it is just "shit is clearly bad... Let's please just try something different and see if it helps."
We've been doing the exact same stuff for so long and everything gets worse. The current administration's solution is to just go backwards and try the old stuff that didn't work again and see if it will work now somehow.
wonder how much of it is just "shit is clearly bad... Let's please just try something different and see if it helps."
It's kinda both from how I see things. When Bernie wasn't given a chance by the DNC in the primaries in 2016, the Bernie supporters flocked to vote Trump. The Sanders to Trump pipeline is real. Slavoj Zizek made a great point that people want someone outside of the neoliberal status quo, and Americans got that, but with Trump. Americans are kind of at the crossroads of what they really want.
Yeah, it seems like the left and right agree that shit needs to change, but the right has been convinced it’s the left’s fault instead of it being the mega-rich.
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Definitely. Because where else are we going to find leaders? Not in congress. Bernie's cool and all, but also old as shit. Would've been pretty great if his nomination wasn't stolen. The only other heroes we have are dead. I watched a video by CerosTV about it yesterday. I recommend it.
I'm afraid to ask, but is there a reason you don't mention AOC?
She voted wrong on a single bill amendment that wasn't going to pass regardless of her vote. It's the stupid purity test bullshit.
Not really. I don't have any problems with her lol
I think it's worth propping her up as a leader with an actual constituency beyond the 1%. Bless Bernie for holding true and setting an example. He knows his star is fading but we will remember him.
He 's been going for such a long time, he honestly deserved to have been nominated over so many different people. Think of how much better the country would've been if he was nominated over Obama, Hillary, or Biden. He would've done better than any one of them. Our country could've existed without the influence of Trump on our everyday lives. We would have a politician that's willing to improve our country.
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I'm an old dude, and it isn't just young people who feel hopeless about our elected representaives, and want new, dynamic leadership. I may not have as long a future as they do, but I'd like what time I have left to not be terrifying.
I’m a young dude and biased I may be, I believe socialism is the ideological result of a capitalist society. It’s not a competition the way I see it. It’s as natural an evolution as how containerization arose from the era of virtual machines. Change is slow, but we’re having 5% more debate about the merits of democratic socialism than we were 5 years ago. It’s something that won’t go away, dominos are falling. Trump having destabilized things only helps broadcast issues that have always existed within this society and usher in new ideology that aims to address those issues. Modern politics is becoming more and more like progressives versus traditionalists, with each passing day. That evolution, away from left versus right, is evidence that capitalism is on the defensive.
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I'm in my middle aged years, whatever I've read of him seems hopeful if he's the future. Also not from the US but if they can vote in someone like that for, what is considered one the the top cities in the world's, mayor that is encouraging. If elected I hope he proves what is better for people.
Seriously we always have someone okay vs someone that wants to take away benefits from the less well off of our neighbors and friends (I will say I'm luckier but not exactly out of that group). It's refreshing to see someone to least state he wants to make a better balance.
Heaven forbid billionaires make a few less dollars that they only use to influence things to their preferences. No one is perfect but his ideals have merit it seems.
The young desperately want someone, anyone, to actually believe in... and it isn't Chuck "strongly worded letter" Schumer or some other limp and ineffectual bureaucrat trying to do damage control for the Democrat party.
Watching establishment Democrats freak out over him has been very satisfying.
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Crazy to think people want representatives who actually put forth ideas to HELP THEM...
I'm 35, I live in North Carolina, and the only TikTok videos I watch are Zohran Momdani's....... Just give me something to hope for, people. And I'm not unique. There are a Fuck Ton of me.
oh it hurts to realize i no longer need the caption.
I saw a DSA Mamdani sign up in a train station in California yesterday, he's definitely got national exposure.
I'm old enough that I look at him and think "oh he would be such a nice son in law" 😄
I met a waitress in Paris who reminded me to vote for him. I was syrprised someone overseas cared that much.
Lol I'm in Estonia and I care more about this than our own municipal government elections that was... I think 2 weeks ago? I mean I voted, I just don't remember when it was. The folks who got in were mostly OK and we're keeping the previous mayor who was OK.
Mamdani could be the leading force behind change in what is arguably the most influential nation to most of the western world. And it's all starting off in one of the most iconic cities in the world, that desperately needs all the help it can get.
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Good for Zohran. Hope he wins.
I say vote him in and let’s see what happens.
Its such a stupid shit show where we have one side of Democrats pushing for healthcare and food for all, another side of Democrats refusing to provide trans support and want more big business, and then Republicans who say fuck all those things except businesses.
I remember when I was in college and people were clamoring on the Ron Paul bandwagon, entirely because he was a high profile politician from a bright red state that wasn't rabidly pro-war. Like, the demand for something that wasn't (Republican: KILL'EM ALL!) or (Democrat: Let's only kill as many people as is fiscally sensible) was so overwhelming that Paul's dogshit economic and social politics failed to register for millions of people who probably should have known better (myself included).
Over twenty years later, I feel like we're getting something of the reverse. A guy whose politics would normally rub GenZ / GenA liberals the wrong way and whose faith/tan would enrage young conservatives is getting a Katamari-like following across the political spectrum entirely because he's outside the increasingly narrow R/D divide.
On the one hand I'm farther to his left and am critical of some of his campaign decisions, and am not optimistic about his abilities to overcome the capitalists through purely electoral means.
On the other hand I'd be happy to see him prove me wrong.
I agree with you, and also, the US left is in no material position to hold our noses when a progressive politician gains mass popular support, so long as their words and deeds are to the benefit of the working class.
Don’t let ideological purity stop you from joining a movement that is, at the very least, building organizational power and class consciousness.
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Was screwing around with IPTV last night, so the Cuomo ad against him.
"DANGEROUS PLANS" ohhhhh
the ad was infuriating. the guy wants to be a half decent human and they need to brand that as danger. seriously fuck these guys.
I pray to the god that does not exist that he does not get assassinated, and if they try I want them to fail so hard that the assassins kill one another instead.
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