Mayor says progressive peers who swept primaries speak to Americans ‘coast to coast’ as moderates have reservations

Mayor says progressive peers who swept primaries speak to Americans ‘coast to coast’ as moderates have reservations

Zohran Mamdani, the New York City mayor, said on Sunday that he and a slew of democratic socialist allies who prevailed in recent primary elections are carrying a “national message” to struggling working Americans hungry for a new kind of politics “coast to coast”.

Mamdani made that triumphant clarion call on ABC News’s This Week just five days after he had seen his endorsed candidates win Democratic nominations in three races for New York congressional seats, as well as for five state legislature positions in Albany. He made no effort to disguise his delight that his clean sweep marks a dramatic shift in Democratic politics – not just in New York City, which he has led since January, but also across the US.

He said that collectively they were carrying a “New Deal understanding” of Democratic politics to Congress and on to the “national stage”. It spoke, he said, to Americans feeling exhaustion at struggling to make ends meet “every single day”.

      • queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        61·
        6 days ago

        People hear candidates’ arguments and make their own (informed or otherwise) judgements about them.

        Tell me how you get from this to “it’s just a coincidence”

        • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
          23·
          6 days ago

          Tell me how you think people use rational thought processes to collectively come to the same decision as Mamdani, against establishment Dems, and its not coincidence…

          • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
            3·
            5 days ago

            Because the same people who elected Mamdani because they liked what he said also like people who share his broad political persuasion?

            Where do you think Mamdani came from in the first place of it’s all just endorsements? Endorsements are advertising, not commandments.

            • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
              12·
              5 days ago

              Because the same people who elected Mamdani because they liked what he said also like people who share his broad political persuasion?

              You just said what I said with different words.

              • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                3·
                5 days ago

                No, I really didn’t. Two people who have the same values coming to the same conclusions is not a coincidence.

                • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
                  12·
                  5 days ago

                  It’s not two people, it’s thousands of people, and yes, it’s not a coincidence, that was my entire point. They’re voting for whom they’re told. It’s why endorsements are a thing in the first place.

                  • Zaktor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
                    3·
                    5 days ago

                    So if you and I and everyone here just happens to both think federated discussion boards are a good thing and all choose to spend our time here, the two options for why we do that are coincidence and because someone told us to so it?

                    This philosophy of yours isn’t logical. You seem to be driven by your opinion on the results rather than any rational view on why multiple people would do the same thing.

          • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
            2·
            5 days ago

            You’re debunking your own argument. Yes, they voted against establishment Dems, so clearly they’re not just voting for whomever they’re told.

            People use rational thought processes to collectively come to the same decision as Mamdani because democratic socialist policies are actually the most favorable to society and the working class so people like that and they vote for it.

            These people are literally seeing through the propaganda that “socialism = bad,” so I can’t see how you think that makes them the mindless automatons who vote how they’re told.

            • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
              11·
              5 days ago

              That is my argument. They’re voting against establishment Democrats, because they’re being told to.

              • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
                3·
                5 days ago

                But they’re also being told to vote for establishment Democrats, and they chose not to.

                So clearly they’re basing this on more than just “who am I being told to vote for?”…