The reason Mamdani is so good, is that he gets shit done. I hope he's endorsed people who can also get shit done, otherwise he's gives fuel to the centrist critique that the left are a bunch of feckless idiots.
He also has this air about him and the most infectious smile. The guy has a bright future in politics. If only the world weren't ending.
Considering the so-called centrists have failed to win elections nonstop, and bowed to fascism and unfettered capitalism, who gives a fuck what they say?
Exactly, these centrists are more upset with Mamdani than Trump and that should tell you everything you need to know.
I dont think he has a magical ability to get things done, it just appears that way because the things he said he would do have a meaningful impact on people's lives.
Other mayors have basically been elected on a platform of maintaining the status quo.
My big comparison is to the string of mayors mayors in Seattle, who share similar political leanings, but appear to have have the execution power of rocks. He is like a million times more effective - and it makes a huge difference.
What do you think is the practical difference? I can't help but wonder what someone with the execution power of a rock does all day. Do they just roll into work and fire up their reddit machine?
The message is that American voters are increasingly lazy, polarized and/or tribalized, unable or unwilling to think for themselves, and vote for whomever they're told. The same thing happens with Trump's base.
They hated you for speaking the truth.
No, I think it's because it's a lazy, facile take. Americans can't think for themselves and only do what they're told? Trump's been blasting shit at us from the country's largest bully pulpit for a decade, why doesn't he have 100% approval and support?
People vote for candidates for a variety of personal, communal, and environmental reasons. Some of that has to do with what those candidates say and do, but reducing it down to "Americans are brainless automatons who do what they're told" is nonsense.
So when folks such as yourselves get downvoted spectacularly as such, does that just reinforce your underdeveloped, edgy opinions? If so, what a vicious cycle to have to deal with.
I don’t see downvotes in my instance so I’m not sure what you’re talking about.
For real, I don't know how else you explain people voting for whomever they're told.
People hear candidates' arguments and make their own (informed or otherwise) judgements about them. How exactly do you think this system of yours works? Do you think Americans count how many political ads they see and vote for whoever aired the most? or do they just check the box next to the last name they heard before they walked into the voting booth?
What you're saying makes no sense. Of course people are going to vote for one of the candidates that wants their vote, those are the only kind of candidates on the ballot. How they choose which one is more complicated.
People hear candidates’ arguments and make their own (informed or otherwise) judgements about them.
So you think it's a coincidence that all those voters arrived at the same decision as Mamdani, entirely of their own volition, and they completely ignored his endorsement to oust establishment Dems? This is the line of logic you want to go with?
Did you read the thing you quoted? Obviously I don't think it's a coincidence.
LOL What're you talking about!? You obviously do?
People hear candidates’ arguments and make their own (informed or otherwise) judgements about them.
Tell me how you get from this to "it's just a coincidence"
Tell me how you think people use rational thought processes to collectively come to the same decision as Mamdani, against establishment Dems, and its not coincidence...
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