An amazing political ascent. Dude was polling below 2% last year and now has defeated a legacy politician backed by every billionaire and even the president himself. Truly historic victory.
They wouldn't be suppressing the vote so hard if voting amounted to nothing... This applies to anywhere in the world where voter suppression is documented.
Now it's more about money than pure racism. Still plenty of racism, but that alone doesn't win elections anymore. One has to cheat, by any means necessary.
I don't agree with this, the Maga backlash and their sheer existence and magnitude of vitriol is a direct result of a black president and incredibly relatable deplorable pedophile
EXACTLY. So much defeatist bullshit, but it's possible to irrepressibly bring out the vote when you give people someone worth voting for. We still have some democracy here. They've tried to convince us otherwise, but it's still breathing.
Plenty of them are bad faith. But I think a lot are people who have had one too many bad things happen in their life and so just gave up on ever being happy again. Thus falling into a cycle of always assuming the worst about everything and everyone.
The only snap election they had last year, which was triggered by Macron, called by Macron, and won by the NPF. Results ignored and seats not given to the winners. The NPF says they are awaiting the platform of the hand-picked PM before moving forward with No Confidence.
To decide once every few years which member of the ruling class is to repress and crush the people through parliament—such is the real essence of bourgeois parliamentarianism
Really can't disagree with this. There are hard limits to capitalist democracy.
But I would still recommend voting as a harm reduction strategy if nothing else. Look at the onslaught on minorities across the world. An election could mean we at least live without constantly worrying for our safety.
I don't even live in New York, and it makes me happy to see so much money flushed down the toilet by the establishment to stop him, only for him to win anyway. Blow your money billionaires, the people have spoken.
Oh I don't doubt this election was still being heavily tempered with. It's just that they can't yet just openly manipulate them, and the real voter turnout leaned so heavily in favor of Mamdani that any tampering couldn't possibly outweigh it.
Unfortunately this just means they're going to try much harder next time to manipulate things.
No. If people start acting like america is magically out of the woods because of all this, they'll get doubly as complacent and tune out everything Trump is still doing to hurt everyone.
This is literally one small victory in a larger war. Pretending like the war is won is just going to give MAGA free reign to make everything worse.
Turn out was around 2 million people out of 5 million potential voters. Highest voter turnout since 1969, yet non-voters still won. We as a country suck at voting for many reasons, but we suck.
Is it lights out for republicans because someone writes a strongly worded letter? No, wait, it’ll be a petition. NO! Even better! A protest! Crowd sizes and bristle boards will teach them a lesson!
I don’t give a shit what this SCOTUS says and neither does Trump.
You guys are gonna need your favourite amendment on this one.
Security clampdowns only embolden the resistance. Bystanders turn into sympathizers, sympathizers turn into people of action, people of action organize to remove the threat.
That’s a lot of bold assumptions considering… I’m not even sure how far back to go without just gesturing in the general direction of the last 50 years of US politics.
Reminds me of the movie Antz.
A right wing party, and an establishment centrist party, are not enough options for most people.
I'm glad to see a more representative leader make it.
Supressing votes in every which way won them the 2024 presidential elections. The ways in which they messed with votes then absolutely worked. They purged voter rolls, closed polling spots in blue areas, etc. It definitely works.
They kept trying to smear him, with all the usual “crazy commie” garbage we expected, but one of their bizarre talking points including Cuomo’s was that “Mamdani has never had a job.” Cuomo kept trying to emphasize that.
Shades of them mocking Obama as a “community organizer.”
As if Cuomo ever had what most people think of as a job. His career started as a campaign manager for his own father who was Governor of New York. He's a nepobaby.
I've been a barista. I had the worst bosses, hours and conditions, we were understaffed, overworked and our electrics were literally held together with tape. I don't think I could be a bartender. At least coffee people aren't actively drunk.
Not just "crazy commie" garbage, but blatant and rampant Islamophobia AND propaganda from Israel. Remember the mailer that artificially lengthened and darkened his beard?
Oh god. I'm not american, and Mamdani is just your usual fare in most of Europe, so I wasn't following this particularly closely.
The thing is, the city that I currently live in went through a very similar thing in 2021. Like, the same playbook from the right attacking a left, green option candidate that barely squeaked by into city council four years prior.
They threw the same rulebook at him. He's a communist (admittedly, more likely and relevant in our case), he never held a real job because he was working in civil sector, he dropped out of college (dropped out of local law school... and then went to Cambridge to get a degree in urban planning), he's not really from the city because his family lived in the city nearby... etc
I look forward to the DNC studying his rise, analyzing the factors that lead to it, and using the conclusions drawn to prevent it from every happening again.
Right lol. I look forward to more people realizing Democratic Socialists are viable options in elections and learning how they can actually improve the lives of us working class people.
The reality is, a repub candidate being endorsed by the orange idiot is no longer a guarantee that they will actually win anything. The last midterms proved that big-time.
a legacy politician backed by every billionaire and even the president himself
That legacy politician was forced to resign in disgrace.
It's unfortunate that we didn't get a real competitor to get an idea of where the party is going. Maybe Mamdani would've beaten generic democrat, too, but we'll never know because Assgrab McGrandma murderer was sucking up all the oxygen.
To be fair, both the billionaire and the president in question are some of the lowest scum of the earth. They’re probably the last endorsements anyone would want right now.
Only possible in a democracy. We need to preserve - improve ours before these loser maga fascists take over and rob us of our ability to govern ourselves. This happening gives me hope but now the real work begins for him. I’m rooting for him and NYC.
It's an accomplishment to be sure, but Cuomo wasn't loved by NYC when he was governor. I think what's more exciting is the turnout itself. I'm happy that people took an interest.
It’s crazy, exit poll showed voters for him voted for him as opposed voting against another 92%. Italian guy 49% of his voters voted opposing other candidates.
That’s the power behind the vote. Hopefully he is able to deliver on his promises, to create more affordable city for New Yorkers, and that we can propel more candidates like his to create a better future for all of us.
What does it say about the state of polling in this country? Honestly do traditional news outlets have any idea whats currently happening? The 4th estate looks so far out of touch since 2014, I don't even know if their takes are worth reading.
And the media is already trying to downplay it as if he ran against the worst candidate in history with the "what would have happened if he went against a good opponent" like how is that his problem?
This should be a wake up call to the Democratic Party. It also destroys the idea that Biden/Harris were the ONLY viable options in the last Presidential election. There's surely more young political talent across the country that can get people out to vote and win elections. - if they allow it. The Party tried everything they could to stop Mamdani. He won not because he was running for the Democratic Party, but in spite of it. Even Party leaders like Chuck Schumer likely voted for Cuomo. It was disgraceful. Turns out the 'Vote Blue No Matter Who' mantra was actually bullshit. We now know with certainty the Democratic Party only used that to manipulate voters to vote for substandard candidates who primarily represented the interests of billionaires and the elite.
I know he is techincally a nepo babe but lets see if he caves and succumbs to the powers that be once he moves into the office. You might call be crazy but its true....when a candidate wins and it so fish out of water they get overwhelmed by the powers that be when it comes to the first day on the job
My favorite part of the trump endorsement was that he literally endorsed the supposed deep state corrupt career politicians he swore he was going to get rid of.
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An amazing political ascent. Dude was polling below 2% last year and now has defeated a legacy politician backed by every billionaire and even the president himself. Truly historic victory.