Don’t fucking compromise.
It is my sincere hope that Jeffrey Lerner and his DNC affiliates all get a swift kick in the balls after this election is over.
At least we’re starting negotiations on policy from the left instead of the center.
But we’re still pre-negotiating, preparatory to rank capitulation like fucking always.
I should have known better than to believe something good could happen.
Can Mamdani fire the establishment goon later? If so, it could be a smart strategic move to qwell the DNC and win his general election.
Eyes on the ball, it’s the policies that matter. If we start seeing watering down of the policies, shoot away, but this on its own means little.
Dude, it’s already over.
And thus Republicans win again.
Thank you leftist purity culture, you truly are the best tool the fascists have.
In what way? He’s better than any republican, but he’s already playing into DNC’s bullshit game by pivoting right.
Is he playing their game or they playing his after the DNC got all those polls that said democrat voters want all the DNC leadership gone?
Yall gotta stop shooting yourselves in the dick every time a braindead DNC goon shows up like its the end of the world. These DNC guys are so dumb they were outsmarted (TWICE!) by Donald Trump who absolutely does not understand how most of his major policies work (tariffs, immigration, etc)
If yall had half the amount of shamelessness that republicans have we’d see people would deliver this media narrative to AIPAC as the DNC “caving to anti Israel” and attempt to cut their funding for the DNC.
Whether or not its true these kinds of things are double edged swords for the DNC and can be used to wedge out AIPAC if you can convince enough of its genocidal supporters to withdraw donations to AIPAC unless the DNC is removed from its payroll.
If AIPAC cuts funding to the DNC that would be a major win even if mamdani loses. This defeatist loser baby shit is why the fascists keep winning. The fascists are dumb and the DNC is even dumber. You don’t need to be a brain genius to beat these idiots.
Because “is already over” means he’s not good enough for the left. So they’ll stay home and stomp their feet like they did in November. And he’ll lose.
I guess if that’s what you want to read into what I said. There’s just no reason to think he’s gonna be any better than a bog standard Democrat anymore, is all.
You’re saying that moving to the right will lose elections.
THATS NOT WHT THE FUCK IT MEANS
That’s what I understood it to mean. So then tell me, what does it mean?
It means that he’s going to make himself beholden to donors like every establishment Dem does so even if all the leftists vote for him they’re not going to get what they voted for thanks to The Machine. He absolutely positively should NOT do ANYTHING that is geared towards trying to woo the Establishment. AOC didnt do it, along with several others. He is WINNING; there is NO reason to change tactics. Besides, he’s running for Mayor. There is no reason to involve any “advisors” from old national races that are irrelevant now.
Is he doing that? Or is he just playing politics and trying to maximize his chances of winning the general election? Who are you to say he won’t pivot back to the left the instant he gets into office?
who are you to say he won’t pivot back to the left
The standard Democratic playbook when they do get elected. They practically never actually stay left, and he just enlisted Lerner, Cuomo’s guy, who’s big into corporate and gig-economy shit.
And? He’s not a standard Democrat. This fickle purity testing is why the right keeps winning.
What the fuck is “purity testing”?
I’m complaining about him hiring Lerner. He’s playing by standard DNC rules, at best now.
Nothing is ever really over. There is always change and we don’t know what’s gonna happen just what is happening.
Feeling like that Star wars “you were the chosen one!!” meme
There it is. They compromised him.
I think its more they appointed a saboteur who will leak some kind of fake bullshit right before the election. The Jeremy Corbyn playbook is still what they’re using so I expect a huge email antisemitism scandal or something created by DNC insiders.
Aaaand…the inevitable pivot to the center, commences.
No, please don’t be a disappointment.
I wonder how hard to the right he’s going to tack to get the DNC to not be like “oooh, brown man scary! 👻“
Well, it was nice having hope for a few weeks.
Let the guy govern for a month before giving up. New Yorkers should pressure him from the left, not just sit back and let the right do it’s thing
New Yorkers should pressure him from the left,
Just get biden in office and you can pressure him from the left! look at what he’s running on!
All the deliberately broken promises and the genocide support later and you’re asking us to buy the same unmitigated bullshit again.
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President and NY Mayor are very different in terms of how much they can be pressured. The right & establishment are fighting, why won’t you?
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Biden was always a shit, especially on Gaza, so the horizon was different from explicitly demsoc + antizionist Mamdani. Even still, there are pretty major differences between biden and trump on domestic policy.
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Right now there is a swell of hope and energy on the left bc of the Mamdani campaign – lay the groundwork there to build a durable movement that won’t be demobilized after the election. Get people into mutual aid, ice resistance, abolitionist, etc groups!
Look, no politician is going to embody real change, but we know Cuomo will be a much bigger obstacle. pressuring, as you point out, only goes so far, but you have to start from where you are and develop a movement inch by inch.
It’s psychologically easier to be cynical, but it also helps your enemies win.
I don’t have the energy to properly respond to this. I don’t have any reason to be positive about anything anymore. After decades of betrayal, this is the last one. Fuck politics. Centrists and their republican besties have made positive change completely impossible and your positivity here sickens me.
You’ve mistaken despair for cynicism.
Yeah I deal with despair too. It’s hard, especially with all the terrible shit we’re seeing. I’m trying to alchemize it into anger and action, but I think everyone struggles with that. I get some boosts from being involved in local work and the community around that.
I don’t get involved in electoral campaigns. Maybe local work would be something you’d gain energy from.
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Goddammit can’t we have a true progressive for once in a position of real power. Why the fuck is he doing this? See this what happens when we feel hope.
I’m still holding onto hope but damn.
