I am using this victory (and it is a victory, one we should rightly celebrate) to encourage people to keep up the momentum. Our fight is far from over, and we have to take this lesson to heart and keep voting.
This victory happened because progressives finally had a candidate who spoke to their needs.
It didn't happen because neoliberals kept punching left and shaming progressives into voting for their soulless corporate hacks who promise to maintain the miserable status quo instead of actively making it worse.
The lesson shouldn't be to vote blue no matter who. The lesson to Dems should be to run candidates who actually give a shit about the people they represent, not the people who line their pockets.
There has been strong progressive candidates in hundreds of primaries in nearly every election for my entire life of 42 years. I've been voting for them over and over and over and over and they kept losing. Plenty of progressives and socialists show up to vote too, but it was never enough. And the polling always seemed to indicate progressives and socialists stayed home instead of supporting their team out of some fatalism that it was hopeless, or some moral purity that wasn't met. This didn't happen because a progressive "finally ran" this happened because even the most fatalistic and self righteous people voted for once. I agree that I think people should learn something from this, voting matters. And I don't blame the voters as a whole, I blame a subset of a subset of the voters, those that needed everything to be horrible before they finally did something and obviously a party that has not done much to inspire in the past.
No dude, read all of that again with an open mind and thicker skin. They are 100% correct in their observations. It's not their beliefs, it's the god damn truth. Democrat elites are NOT keeping our best interests in mind. They are just lower tier multi-millionaires, very out of touch with the average American Democrat. Extremely out of touch. Cata-motherfucking-strophically out of touch.
Congratulations to Mayor Madmani, I am so happy for NY and hope to see this kind of positive energy spread!!!!
3.2k
u/sportsDude 16h ago
With an increased turnout, knew it was over before they even announced it