New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, once a figure of contention among leaders from both major political parties, has seen a remarkable surge in his political standing just six months into office.
The 34-year-old democratic socialist, a prominent figure on the progressive left, has garnered unexpected praise from both Donald Trump and New York Governor Kathy Hochul.
He has also emerged as the face of the region’s sports renaissance. Now, days before New York’s primary elections,
Electing someone who is actually DOING STUFF for the city he’s elected to run? I mean, yeah we should totally hate that. 😩
electing someone who even understands what their job even is seems to be a welcome change. Schumer claims his whole job is keeping the dems in line with what a foreign power wants. And almost all of congress seem sto agree. Thats not their job at all. And that rot goes top to bottom through both parties. The president and judiciary also dont seem to understand what their jobs are anymore. Cops too, no frickin idea what they do exactly.
Cops document events and threaten violence. Well, instigate violence as well, but only the Rotten Apples ™.
Yeah, wtf is wrong with Mamdani.
Doesnt he know hes supposed to make big promises, then do none of it while giving handies to CEOs in his office before selling his citizens out for literal pennies per person?
Good and carry on. The USA needs a progressive left president too.
Republicans, propping up Mamdani?
Interesting strategy. But you know what they say, never interrupt your enemy while they’re making a fatal mistake.
“We were surprised to discover that, underneath all the bullshit, people just want happiness, peace and opportunity”.
Isn’t he self-described as a “democratic socialist”? (I mean, his faction aren’t super radical socialist as far as I’m aware, in terms of trying to bring about a workers democracy. The NYC “city run” grocery stores are just contacted out, not actually city run. But hey, it’s way, way, way better than what other US political factions are doing)
baby steps, baby steps.
Love him!
We truly is reshaping and healing the state of NYC.
Good?
We can only hope that this is true. I’ll buy it when I see it in Illinois.
As he should. We need to take any populist progressive momentum we have and use it to run the Democrats out of town. Along with the republicans. The two parties are just a black hole of corporate money.
Zohran Mamdani is reshaping the Democratic Party In New York faster than anyone expected
FTFT. If he can spur change in the country, excellent. Democrats in Idaho still have to work with Idahoans. They don’t care about the Nicks.
Just saying - red states are still red states. New York wasn’t that kind of red.
They don’t care about the Nicks
I’m guessing you don’t either? New York Knicks
Oops. I thought that looked funny. Eh, whatever.
I have a horrible feeling he’s going to be assassinated in the not-too-distant future. I really hope I’m wrong.
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He’s six months in and like ⅔ of the way through his campaign promises. And that’s with standing against ICE and dealing with both an extreme winter and and extreme summer. He defeated multiple establishment-backed candidates. And he’s managed to do this all without any major scandal.
Plus, if this is a psyop by the right, it’s absolutely backfiring. Mamdani is showing the electorate how a government can work for its people. That’s good for people, but terrible for the establishment.
I realize where the cynicism comes from, but “they just don’t change” is always true right up until it isn’t.
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you know mamdani is still a democrat right? He is still approved by the richoids of america, y’know the guys who’ve been terrorizing the world for decades, and he already gave up on being anti cop. Ultimately guys like him are just there to fool you that the system can be change by voting, doing slight improvement so the system survives until it can take those improvements away.
They fought tooth and nail to keep him from winning, just like they did Bernie.
It’s just a show. He is still there, not to mention Bernie sanders is also a Zionist who turns American rage at the system into votes for democrats. I mean come on, Zoharan said he’d defund the police, where is that now?
liberals are going to be shocked when his successors revert everything good he’s done, as always
Fell for it again rewards for all americans
reshaping the imperialist party to fund healthcare of americans instead of giving it to billionaires. He has no problem with the imperialism part
I just explained what socialism means when it is preceded by “democratic” in the west
He’s not very socialist, no. But based on your take that socialists on the west are imperialist simply for existing within an imperialist nation, something tells me you think anyone who’s the enemy of the USA must be great. (Do correct me). And that usually ends up being tankies.
He’s been outspoken on the genocide in Gaza, at least. Which is one of the USA’s proxy imperialist projects.
USA, Russia, China, they’re all terrible in their own way. We don’t get to choose where we’re born.
I’m a socialist (edit: not a “democratic socialist”, like actually a socialist who wants revolution and institution of a worker controlled society) in Australia. Am I okay with imperialism too because of Australia’s actions?
In conclusion, Mamdani isn’t gonna bring about socialism, but he’s certainly not as bad as you’re describing (that I can tell, so far).
No, according to me socialists in the west are imperialist because they behave like that. How many times has zohran spoken about gaza after getting elected? I think its 0. I think anyone against the US isnt great, but they are better. I dont mind you calling me tankie, I support the soviet union, cuba, vietnam, maoist china, etc.
USA is clearly by far the most terrible of those nations. We must apply the lesser evilism that liberals apply in every election.
Mamdani allows west bank land sales in NY synagouges, he isnt that bad if your moral compass revolves around western left
From what I can tell Mamdani has been speaking our against these events. So he’s spoken about Gaza at least once since election… Though I am neither from NYC nor the US, so don’t know in great detail.
Again, Mamdani isn’t a socialist, and isn’t gonna bring about any sort of meaningful restructure of US society. But it seems like a stretch to say he’s actively supporting US imperialism given the scope of his power.
Lesser evilism only really applies when no other choice exists. In the US voting system, you must vote for the lesser evil, because first past the post is trash. The part that people haven’t been doing at large scale is still continuing to bring about change outside the terrible voting system, 1. at a minimum to fix the voting system and 2. to build workers movements that use things like, unionism, general strikes, protests, boycotts and eventually revolution to overthrow the ruling class by (mostly) peaceful means by numbers (and probably some violence when there’s inevitably a retaliation by the ruling class).
But not voting in the US and feeling high and mighty about it is really stupid.
Luckily, in Australia, we can at least preference, meaning we don’t need to deal with that particular hurdle. Though it’s still not democratic as representatives are unrecallable, and like all capitalist counties, the real power is with the capitalist class who put their finger on the scale to get their desired outcomes.
Lesser evilism in the context of world governments is absurd (i.e. supporting Russia, China, Iran, etc just because they’re not the USA), especially socialists who believe in international worker solidarity.
We get absolutely nothing but supporting totalitarian regimes, be they in the US, Russia, China etc. We ought to be supporting workers in all countries to achieve socialism, not bloody the ones in power just because their ruling class are enemies of the US ruling class… (and for the record, China, Russia and Vietnam are all capitalist countries… one needs to delude themselves to believe otherwise).
In conclusion, it’s weird that you don’t mind being called a tankie, because it hints are your disregard for democracy and self-determination.
And by definition you can’t really call yourself a socialist if you don’t believe in democracy, since how else can a society be “worker controlled” if the workers don’t get a say over society…
But not voting in the US and feeling high and mighty about it is really stupid.
I never said to “not vote” I just said vote 3rd party
Lesser evilism in the context of world governments is absurd
No its not, you are engaging in western chauvinism
Your mistake is that you think all working class across all countries operate on same frequency while thats not the truth, working class of imperial core benefits from imperialism and thats why they are very lenient. The american worker manufactures weapons which are then used to bomb iranians or palestinains, american worker got the money, he is then brainwashed through media, workers of different nations operate on different layers thats why widespread worker solidarity without addressing the leniency of many workers is bullshit.
it’s weird that you don’t mind being called a tankie
Tankie is a slur used online against anyone who supports soviet union, maoist china, castros cuba, ho chi minh’s vietnam etc. In that sense I am a tankie and these experiments were far more democratic than whatever west offers.
“Anyone disagreeing with me is a heckin tankie”
