• zbyte64@awful.systems
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    2 months ago

    It’s not that the public forgot, but that leadership failed to offer an alternative other than “not Trump”. When the Democrats do offer an alternative like Mamdani, people show up. And 80% of those that showed up voted for him, not against the other candidate. Not even Obama accomplished that.

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      2 months ago

      Don’t be mistaken, Mandani’s win is not America’s win, it’s NY win. America as a whole is way more stupid and way more evil than that. Hell, even broad democratic voters are worse than that, Bernie lost popular vote on primaries twice afterall.

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      2 months ago

      When the Democrats do offer an alternative like Mamdani, people show up.

      I’d like to rephrase that to make a point: When progressive voters show up and vote in the primaries for the more progressive candidate, there’s more likely to be a more progressive Democratic candidate on the ballot in the general and people will show up for them.

      Point is the Democratic Party powers that be did not willingly “offer an alternative like Mamdani”. They hated that he was the candidate and tried to get Cuomo elected instead. Mamdani was only “offered” thanks to the voters who showed up and voted for him in the primary.