It's upsetting to watch #Democrats scramble to downplay Mamdani's victory by implying he only works as a leader in #NYC
As if people in Virginia, or the mid-west don't also want affordable housing and healthcare, or for billionaires to pay their fair share in taxes.
This is why so many of us on the left are mad at the Dems. They are obstructionists for wealthy interests, and if we don't vote for neoliberalism they're okay with #fascism
Their donors want anything but #democraticSocialism
We all want affordable housing and healthcare.
It's just that most of us realize that Mamdoni is selling snake oil and plans that, should they be implemented, will make these problems even worse.
If the voters of NYC are so naive that they would elect the guy, well I guess that works there, but other parts of the country see through him and would reject him.
@fromjason sometimes the reason we don't do things is because they are actually harmful, and stand in the way of doing the things that will make things better.
That's the case there.
The things that they are proposing in NYC will actually make things worse for every day New Yorkers because they don't understand how the world works or how we got here in the first place.
We absolutely can make things better. Unfortunately, that administration doesn't understand the problem, and so instead of making things better, they will be made worse.
We've tried those solutions before, and they didn't work, and they're not going to work this time either.
@fromjason What in the world?
I think you missed when I said there's a whole lot of people who see through the snake oil.
Oh it's not just me, and that's the whole point as to why this stuff doesn't fly in the rest of the country.
It's not that people don't want things to be better. It's that there are A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE who know better than to believe politicians selling the same old policies that necessarily end up being so regressive.
New York seems to have a history of electing politicians who really can't get the job done. Just look at Democratic leadership in Congress right now. We could be doing so much better, except for some reason we keep electing these guys who can't seem to manage anything.
Democrats could be running Congress right now, except we keep electing these guys who really don't know how the world works.
@volkris okay I'm bored. Good day.
@volkris ah yes, the "no one but me is smart enough to understand the economy." I've heard it all before