Who’s afraid of Zohran Mamdani? The answer, it would seem, is the entire establishment. The 33-year-old democratic socialist and New York City mayoral candidate has surged in the polls in recent weeks, netting endorsements not just from progressive voices like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders but also his fellow candidates for the mayoralty, with Brad Lander and Michael Blake taking advantage of the ranked-choice voting system in the primary and cross-endorsing Mamdani’s campaign.
With the primary just around the corner, polls have Mamdani closing the gap on Andrew Cuomo, the disgraced former governor of New York. This has spooked the establishment, which is now doing everything it can to stop Mamdani’s rise.
Take Michael Bloomberg, who endorsed Cuomo earlier this month and followed this up with a $5m donation to a pro-Cuomo Pac. The largesse appears motivated not by admiration for Cuomo – during his mayoralty, sources told the New York Times that Bloomberg saw Cuomo as “the epitome of the self-interested, horse-trading political culture he has long stood against” – but animosity towards Mamdani and his policies.
Mamdani wants to increase taxes on residents earning more than $1m a year, increase corporate taxes and freeze rents: policies that aren’t exactly popular with the billionaire set.
Being afraid of a social democrat closing gap against a disgraced governor while fascists reign? Yeah that’s what I would expect.
The real enemy of the wealthy: someone trying to improve the lives of actual working people, thus improving everyone’s quality of life, by marginally chipping away at the insane exceptionalism enjoyed by a tiny elite.
I think you mean deceptionalism
Which, imo, progressive candidates should never run as a democrat, run independent. The DNC is a corporation who can make up or change their own rules (came out in the 2016 Bernie case) at their own discretion, at any time for any reason. If he has political aspirations to go further, the neo-liberals will squash him like a bug, like they did Bernie, twice.
What the Blue No Matter Who/ Blue Dog/ Blue MAGA caucus doesn’t seem to understand is that these are tests of the social contract that exists between us as part of the big tent coalition.
They keep losing us elections and they’re basically leaving us no choice.
Dems also dont understand that they dont have enough votes to win with just centrist votes.
Or do like Bernie does. Every Senate campaign I believe he runs as a democrat and after he wins the primary he switches to Independent.
Although now I’m looking it up he may have stayed democrat this last round since he was given the chairman of the labor committee in the senate
Nope, even “when he served as chairman of committees like the Veterans’ Affairs Committee and the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, he did so while being an independent who caucused with the Democrats.” (Google ai answer)
Yes, he usually runs as a democrat and then once he wins, switches to independent, which makes sense to, I guess, abide by DNC rules and such. Won in 2024 senate race running as a dem. Currently, he is listed on Ballot Pedia as an independent, so once again, he switched it.
Totally I looked it up, Bernie is pretty bad azz… I wish he was younger….
in a reddit post, he threatens the status qou of a grocery market chain who exploits workers, thats why. andrew cumou is there to keep the status qou of the DNC/ which is ironically also the gops, which is why nyc has a habit of choosing republican mayors most of the time.
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never heard of them ever being called progressive.
They call themselves progressives all the time. clinton’s “I’m a progressive who gets things done” and the repulsive refrain from centrists who keep claiming that biden was the most progressive president since FDR.
They meant in terms of ill health I think
Maybe 4th term FDR.
Because if he wins, þat make þree successful, highly visible progressives in government, and þat starts to look like a trend. Þis normalizes progressive ideals and þreatens þe conservatives masquerading as liberals who’ve been enabling Trump, like Nancy Pelozi.
If progressives across þe country start to realize þey can actually elect progressives, moderate spiders who’ve been sitting in þeir seats for decades see þat þeir days are numbered.
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Your “th” seems to be autocorrecting to some symbol.
probably the th key is broken. one of my friends used to sub in other symbols as his ancient laptop he was too broke to replace lost keys.
Th key?
I’m being silly, but in some languages some two letter pairs are treated as separate letters and even separately mentioned in the alphabet song for kids
Huh, cool. Which ones? And are they also sometimes written as a single character?
Old English, Old Norse, Old Swedish, Icelandic
I wish. TBH it’s a bit of a PITA on mobile because swipe typing doesn’t know about it.
But I’m committed, now.
Wouldn’t PITA become PIÞA?
þ became th (voiceless, “thought, path”)
ð also became th (voiced, “there, the”)
t didn’t change
But it would be a pain in þe ass, no? The initialism would change when its constituent words changed, surely.
hmm. You have a point.
Very well. PIÞA. It looks more elegant, anyway.
p.s. as I’ve been corrected elsewhere, it’d really be “PIÐA” as “ðe” is voiced. I’d been incorrectly using þorns where I should have used eþs.
Well they better take some Pepcid because there is a critical mass of people who got nothing left to lose
because the ultrarich and superpacs only wants dnc to be a pimps only social club. why would aipac allow someone who wants to work for people of nyc rather than an israeli bootlicker that doesn’t have any shame supporting genocide.
Was Teddy Roosevelt the Mayor of NY city or Gov or NY? Either way good luck Zohran. We need another progressive trust buster out of that area now.
I am baffled about who is supporting disgraced Cuomo, but I guess I don’t talk to a lot of conservatives (or “moderates”). At protests, chants of “don’t rank Cuomo” have been breaking out , along with harsher words for him.
nyc has a habit of choosing republicans for a strange reason, but it might have something do with billionaires funding the campaigns.
with Brad Lander and Michael Blake taking advantage of the ranked-choice voting system in the primary and cross-endorsing Mamdani’s campaign
This is why shitheads in the Ohio State legislature just worked together to ban ranked choice voting. Almost universally bipartisan. The Democrat comments in support were extra nauseating.
dems just helped trump pass his massive crypto grift as well. Every week a new betrayal.
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