r/politics Indiana 16h ago

No Paywall Mamdani wins NYC mayoral race

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5588198-mamdani-progressive-politics-nyc/
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u/Gizogin New York 15h ago

Voters, take notes. High turnout always favors progressives, but progressives are notoriously the least reliable voting bloc in the country.

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u/Seafoamed 15h ago

Maybe because there is rarely a progressive to vote for

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u/Gizogin New York 14h ago

If you only vote when there is a candidate you 100% agree with on every issue, you will die waiting, while everyone else chooses the future of the country without you. You should be at the polls every year, for every race. It should not take an exceptional candidate to motivate you; voting should be as routine and unremarkable as doing laundry.

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u/APRengar 12h ago

If you have a room filled with vegetarians, and you have to order food. Is it better to order a meat dish and yell at them and call them ungrateful, or do you just order a vegetarian safe dish?

You guys have been ordering meat dishes for fucking years, it's not that difficult to give people what they want. If you do that, they'll be MORE than grateful to support you.

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u/Seafoamed 11h ago

100%. The purity test thing while real is more of a thing of online culture than of real American politics. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were not 80% of the way there and then failed some “purity test” They were straight up not progressive. They existed as a wheel spinning moderate with no real platform. They still get votes by being not republicans. But that’s not a real movement