Zohran Mamdani’s Upset Is a Seismic Moment for the Left
https://time.com/7297429/zohran-mamdani-victory-democratic-socialist/
Zohran Mamdani’s Upset Is a Seismic Moment for the Left
https://time.com/7297429/zohran-mamdani-victory-democratic-socialist/
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The DNC leadership is champing at the bit to fail to rise to the occasion.
Remember the excitement around Zohran. And remember never to listen to these lame ass fucking centrists, their tired-ass leadership, their dumb fucking gas lighting, their continual bleating about electibility.
I think a lot of us can feel the energy in the air. The craving for change. The decay of the old guard. They will do anything, say anything to cling to power because it is all they know, and because deep down they know they’re failures, and they don’t want ot be out in the cold.
Primary them. Every last one of them. Get out there and take the party out of their geriatric sex-pest fingers, and don’t listen to a word they fucking say.
DNC leadership failed at levels hard to even describe.
If they had empowered young progressives like Zohran ten years ago, we would not have had the problems we’ve had with Trump. It is their tired geriatric bullshit and their insistance on us needing them that has brought us to the brink of calamity.
They continue to place geriatric fossils no one likes in all the positions of power because they don’t know what else to do. Their strategies all fail. Their candidates fail. People do not like them, they don’t trust them, they don’t understand the modern media landscape or how to play it.
They’re just fucking losers who are entitled and totally fucking lost, and they’re desparately trying to spend oligarch money to convince you they’re not.
That slimy fuck Jeffries and 120 Democrats in the house just killed the latest resolution to impeach Trump for war crimes he committed in plain sight.
These people fucking suck. Their ideas suck. They lose always. Get them the fuck out and we will win elections again.
Centrists will drag us all to hell if we let them. The republicans learned to tell centrists to fuck off years ago. now it’s the left’s turn.
Bernie left us in good hands with AOC and Mamdani.
I know more talent like Crockett, Frost, Walz, Katie Porter, and Pritzker are also fighting their way up to show a different vision for us than these Do-Nothing Dems.
The genius of his campaign was avoiding identity and purity politics that have plagued progressives and hyper-focusing on “a city that we can afford“. A unifying, direct message to the working class from all backgrounds.
The message,is its time for moderate centrist to step aside and vote blue don’t matter who. The Democratic party has to change
I hope this inspires leftists and progressives throughout the country to get involved in local politics and run for office. Mamdani came out of nowhere and most likely gonna be mayor of New York Fucking City. When you believe in good things and actually fight for them then people will vote for you. People need to realize that.
Please for the sake of holy fuck let this be an actual watershed moment
A small victory which I hope leads to more wins. This is promising!
One of the biggest wins for progressives since the 60s
Don’t mess with the Zohran
I said this before, with the unpopularity of the Democrats, Republicans and Trump, this is the time for Progressive to take advantage and win elections.
Anyone else remember that one episode of Survivor with the Hillary Clinton campaign writer who said he was confident in his ability to strategize a win due to his experience in the DNC and was immediately voted out in the first episode?
Millennials really have to start clawing the Democratic Party away from leaderships old dying hands. Their refusal to embrace and help along the change that we so desperately need that they are pulling us all down with them. We need enthusiasm. We need new faces and new ideas. We need hope and it’s sure as fuck not coming from Chuck Schumer. I hope this can be the start of something real.
“Stunning” “Upset” “Shock” these are the words they’re using to describe his win.
I live in NYC and the campaigning against mamdani was straight up toxic whereas his ads were uplifting. Not to mention everyone asking him about *isreal* for… what reason? Because he’s colored? Seemed to only bolster his position as he’s the only candidate being treated diffeeently as seen in the debates and interviews.
The heat could’ve helped as it was 100F today and most of the older folk, Cuomo supporters, may not have hit the polls.
Social media, for age groups 18-35, was super saturated with Mamdani support.
Not to mention, people may just be tired of Cuomo? Not only did Mamdani’s platform seem to have an actual plan instead of general, vague, political jargon, dude seemed to actually have a soul and was down to earth. Politicians will be politicians but it was refreshing to hear someone sound human
So no. Not stunning. Well earned. Congratulations.
Anyone want to place bets on how the democratic party will:
A) try to sabotage him and his tenure as mayor?
or
B) support him and use it as a roadmap to reinvigorating the party?
Enough people have had enough!!!!
0 posts about Mamdani on r/democrats does cuomo moderate that sub 😂
Rank choice voting is a massive, *massive* part of this.
Not because of a technicality. Not because of a loophole. The people wanted Zohran; that much is evidenced by the fact that he won in the first round. But he won in the first round because people didn’t have to be afraid of “splitting the vote”, and they didn’t feel like they had to choose between the “lesser of two evils”.
Zohran was a great candidate. He ran a great campaign. But great candidates with great campaigns lose all the time. For the dems, that’s often because we’re told that the best candidates on our side don’t actually exist to hold office, but to pull our more “realistic” candidates closer to what we want. We can’t Alienate the moderate electorate lest they jump ship and join ranks with our enemy. But with rank choice voting, we didn’t have to worry about that. We could speak our minds.
Previously, casting a vote felt like a hostage situation. Say the wrong thing and the worst actor might take power. But now, the threat of vote-splitting no longer hangs over the process. Voters could speak clearly about who they believed in, knowing that if their first choice didn’t prevail, their vote would still carry forward. They could vote for the future without risking catastrophe.
And they did.
“Go with popular guy, instead of rich guy? That doesn’t sound right. Let me ask the rich guys what they think!” -Democrat Electoral Strategy since 2014
Biggest win since AOC I’m so happy.
The dems will learn nothing of this and keep insisting on running centrist candidates that’ll lose and the dems will be completely flabbergasted by this fact.
Even staunch institutionalists recognize there’s a moment here for progressive labor politics.
Fuck identity politics and neoliberalism. The right has abandoned the working class and created one of the easiest opportunities in history for the left to capitalize on pro-labor socialist policies to win elections.
I will never forget how many people on this site said we moved too far left after Kamala lost. Turns out that wasn’t true!
We are hungry for hope and politics based on *care.* We want to find a path toward meeting material needs, uplifting all people regardless of identity, and fostering community. Let’s keep prioritizing these values into future elections!
Yes, I’d been telling my conservative family this –progressives are getting more left-leaning. After Trump got elected a second time, they lost all respect for the “moderate” choice and are ready to go all in. Why concede anything to Republicans after how they have treated Democrats? This is especially true for youth, but I see it in older generations too. A lot of anger, and a feeling it’s their turn now.
Ehh too early to make this determination. I think it was more of a “fuck you, Cuomo” vote than anything. I hope it is more than that, but we’ll see.
This is what grassroots power actually looks like — organizing, consistency, and not backing down from progressive values. Hoping this is the start of something much bigger across the country.
LETS FUCKING GO! Anytime those establishment losers try to tell you progressives can’t win elections tell them to suck your dick. It’s our time now. Gerontocracy is dead
My local district in upstate NY had a major upset in our D primary as well, with a millennial progressive beating an octogenarian thats been in office for way too long. The tide is turning, keep it up everyone! All hope is not lost!
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