• kreskin@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    This guy has some style. Who would have thought serving the publics needs would play so well?

    DNC, do you see any of this?

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    18 hours ago

    The only thing that can stop a primary candidate with a platform like Mamdani, is depressed Dem primary turnout…

    The DNC chair didn’t endorse him in the primary, because this chair will never even glance at the scales during any primary.

    But literal days after Mamdani became the candidate, he gave a PBS interview talking about how if Dems want to win, we need to run candidates like Mamdani.

    We’ll get a fair primary with nothing holding us back, and voting in the Dem primary comes with zero obligations in the general. There is absolutely zero reason to stop voting in Dem primaries now. It’s more important than it’s ever been, because it’ll be the first fair one in at least 30 years.

    But all the stuff Mamdani is doing in NYC today, can be done nationwide in just a couple years if we don’t give up right before the finish line of a marathon

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      Its important to see that candidates are winning by offering something to the voters. They aren’t running in orange man bad. They can feel that way, but it’s not why they are running

      There are like a bajillion studies relating voter psychology and political preferences. If you want conservatives to vote you run on anger, holding onto what you have, fear of the other. You want the other side to vote, you have to present a vision of what’s possible.

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      14 hours ago

      By the same token, now is the time to promote this message of hope and action wherever you see it, and proactively address expressions of doom and defeat, however harmless they may seem. We all share responsibility for this to the extent that, taken together, these attitudes constitute a climate of action or inaction.

      Now is not the time to give up and stay home, yet there are many currently in a state of deep hopelessness they feel compelled to spread. These comrades are effectively deactivated right now, and would deactivate others if only as a comfort to themselves, to validate their fear and justify their inaction. They don’t realize, or simply aren’t considering, how contagious and harmful it can be.

      Edit: If you ever wondered what JFK meant by “fear itself,” wonder no further. We’re all living in such times.

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      16 hours ago

      Large scale covid inflation was caused by FED printing too much money. This isn’t something Mamdani can fix he can only do band-aid solutions on top of the issue.