Andrew Cuomo concedes New York City Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani

@iamthe99 I was surprised the dems dislike Mamdani but I'm really hoping if he's elected, it sends a message anyways. The dems have not had a backbone for quite awhile. Their politics are there but they don't do enough and seem to have no ambition. So we need people with a spine to start doing what needs to be done.

@SatanBurger This is the big problem. When push comes to shove, the Dems are essentially the same as the old-school Republicans, but with one HUGE weakness: they HATE their progressive base whereas the Republicans LOVE theirs.

@iamthe99 That's why we have no more middle class, people don't realize that repubs are the cause of stagnant wages and corruption but Democrats continually support that.

My gut does think that this progressive would be better he's offering alternatives while dems sit there complaining about Trump and repubs drag their feet over the mere mention of ceos making a meekly 15,000 weekly instead of 20,000 or something. Oh the horror.

I should say that i fully agree with Democrats about Trump but it kinda seems like they're scared of the solution. I think everyone is and don't want to take that first step.

@WestonTexan i don't claim to understand this all as well as you do, but it seems like for the democrats a candidate can be way too progressive and lose votes, but for the republicans, the only way to lose votes is to not be MAGA enough

@WestonTexan

And that is why the Democrats lose presidential elections: they HATE their Base.

@JacobC2007 The Democrats as an establishment want to be as conservative as possible. Progress has always been made by their base dragging the party, kicking and screaming, further to the Left. And this is how we do it, by electing the most left-wing candidate in the primaries.

@iamthe99 but I don't think the country is ready for democratic socialism, using that term will screw the party. We shall see in the heavily democratic NY in the fall.

@samueltyler2 It's truly horrific that most Americans react with horror at the world "socialism" when it would barely be considered left of center anywhere else in the world. People in America always seem to vote against their best interests.

@iamthe99 totally true. They are happy to have their hand out and deny they are already accepting some socialism.

@iamthe99 this was fun. thanks

@iamthe99 I'm glad Mamdani is in the lead, it's still an accomplishment and we'll see if he wins or not. I'm hoping he does but you know americans.

I'm kind of still skeptical as some seem bent on being fine with high rates of homelessness, no child care, higher infant and female mortality rates and super low wages still seem to think it's the 90s. And they seem fine with ceos making 30,000 weekly instead of just like 15,000 or something.

America is the only country I've seen that willfully oppresses itself, that's how you know we've had too much privilege ironically.

But I wish for the best for Mamdani. It would be awesome if he won

@iamthe99 Yup his policies have already been implemented in many other capitalist countries and they seem to be doing fine.

@SatanBurger nah it’s a well documented fact, this guy supports terrorism

@mysteryespresso He also has come out and said he pledged to up the hate crime program in NY by 800%. He's consistently defended himself saying he doesn't dislike Jewish people and has faced death threats by people saying the only good Muslim is a dead one.

No candidate is perfect but this hinges on that you feel he's going to be horrible and I believe that's from a fear based view rather than a logical one.

I'm sorry but people are facing other issues like homelessness and wages stuck in the 90s where both democrats and Republicans don't really want to budge on. They're just denying everything while others suffer.

Someone has to do something and if Mamdani wins, I'm glad he's going to do it.

Republicans attack anyone who proposes these ideas but we need to move on, if we stay the same, we're all going to die because of other people's selfishness. Sorry but I cant save your feelings.