New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s popularity in the metropolis has surged since his election last month, according to a new poll.
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s popularity in the metropolis has surged since his election last month, according to a new poll.
Oddly enough I’ve seen the purported progressives on here already trying to claim he’s bad on a few occasions.
There is absolutely room for criticism against Zohran. I wholeheartedly support that voting for him was still the correct choice and I hope he really does unleash significant progressive policy for NYC. I also believe he deserves the criticism for manufacturing consent for action against Venezuela and Cuba by calling their presidents dictators in the context of today’s likelihood of attack against the former; and for his redundancy on pinning the Isntreali genocide of Palestinians on October 7th.
Hate to break it to you, but people can lie about what they believe and who they are…
Especially on the internet.
No one knows youre a dog on the internet
Yeah, and the legitimate lefties out there are awesome and I hope they get their way.
Then there are the ones who preach disengagement because “both sides” / “blue-maga”…
I mean, shits been fucked up largely due to neoliberals controlling the DNC…
That changed with the last chair electuon, and some people are genuinely ignorant of that fact. Others want people on the actual left to be disengaged for the next primary.
The DNC is neo-liberal, period. They are center right everywhere in the world.
You don’t understand that the chair has complete control…
Otherwise when Obama was elected youd have been saying “the president” and holding Obama accountable for everything GW did before Obama even ran for president.
At least, I’m hoping the problem here is ignorance, like I said a lot of people are lying to depress Dem turnout in the next presidential primary.
I do understand that the DNC has complete control. We’ve seen many example of that, the most egregious being Bernie vs Clinton.
US society is fundamentally to the right and the DNC will keep it that way.
That creates an issue where changing the Democrat Party will take a long long time. So the better option would be a real left party, but that would mean that Republicans would be in power for a while, until the politcal landscape changes and stabilise with 3 parties. And that’s not accounting for the DNC that will work against the newly formed party.
Denying that the DNC is neo-liberal to its core is deliberate ignorance.
Any prominent member that has an ounce of progressism has to fight the DNC at every corner to get through, like we’ve seen Mamdani.
Meanwhile, progressives should definitely vote for the Democrats. But this is a different issue. The vote turnout is terrible in North America (we have the same problem in Canada).
I’ve never seen anyone here (or anywhere on the Fediverse) actually preach disengagement. Pointing out that both sides suck isn’t preaching disengagement.
Eh, tomato/potato, the ‘genocide joe’ mantra and then immediately turning that hate on Harris when he stepped down, essentially demanding an ethically pure option…
It all ends up in the same place, a disenfranchised apathetic public leaving the door open for the current shitshow whose voters eagerly embrace the terrible options they’re offered. Perfect being the enemy of the less bad and all that.
Yeah that’s not “potato potato” that’s called fucking lying. Criticizing the options offered and preaching disengagement are two completely different things. It’s completely possible to denounce genocide Joe and “nothing comes to mind” Harris and call not for less, but for more (and more radical) engagement. No way in hell, say, Uncommitted was “preaching disengagement,” and if you feel the need to lie about people for opposing genocide you should seriously reconsider your beliefs.
Yes, because people are either good or bad, and thus everything they do is either good or bad. Depending of course on whether they are good or bad only.
Then they aren’t progressives.
Really? But he’s basically a progressive dream come true? Maybe because his Trump visit? But he really did great there too.
The only consistent thing about the left since its existence is infighting and self-sabotage.
when all you have is a wedge, everything is a crack
Reminds me, I need to finish Adam Savage’s audiobook.
Everyone sucks in their own, terrible way.
The Tankies are already calling him the next Obama