New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) said Saturday that Democrats have lost sight of the important economic issues facing working-class Americans as the party works to rebuild itself after a devastating loss in the 2024 presidential election.
“The party, as a whole, has lost its focus on working people,” Mamdani said in an interview with MS Now.
“People want to know: What are you going to do for rent? What are you going to do for housing? What are you going to do for gas? What are you going to do for groceries? We have to have answers to that.”
Issues like housing affordability, the cost of healthcare and rising gas prices should be at the forefront of the party’s focus, according to Mamdani, rather than ideological battles that distract from what matters to most Americans.
Just more lip service from the fake leftist that is mamdani.
All downvotes of this comment will be from simping mamdanistans
Isn’t he doing more for leftism than you are?
What is he doing, exactly, if anything at all?
A non-zero amount, which is more than can be said about people whining toothlessly on the internet
Name one thing he’s done.
Fine, he balanced the NYC budget. This is the part where you either admit you’re wrong, call that fake news, or pretend that it doesn’t count for some reason. I can tell from your previous posts that the first isn’t going to happen so which of the other two options are you going to pick?
Explain what you mean by “balancing the NYC budget” (i.e. how, elaborate). A source would be cool, while you’re at it.
FYI, if you’ve read my posts, you’d know I don’t retort w “fake news” as a counterargument.
We ask this about Schumer and you never have an answer.
Why do you hold progressives to such a high standard while making endless excuses for do-nothing geriatrics?
I never made any excuses for anyone.
If you have unresolved anger towards others, take it out on them.
I’m lucky enough to live in a civilised country, rather than the shit show that is 'Murica
I have no skin in the game of New York politics, but I’m downvoting you because you’re a fucking idiot who is just trying to be a dick because you crave attention
Unless, you’re actually as stupid as you appear to be
I which case, while I despise you,
I pity you even more
I mean… he is moving the overton window 🤷
So why are you part of it?
“If capitalism bad why you buy stuff” ass question
This guy isn’t simply buying stuff, he’s the ceo of a corporation also people buy stuff because they have no other choice this guy has plenty of choice to run with other parties if he doesn’t like what the democrats do.
Oh, people do have a choice. Buy stuff or be misreable and/or die.
Same as Mamdani, even if his choices’ consequences are less extreme for him (get a platform big enough to make change even if not the ideal one, or fall into irrelevance having achieved nothing).
Purists like you are the resson the left is so divided. Nothing like waiting for the (nonexistant) perfect candidate while letting psss the (existing) unperfect candidates.
Purists like you are the resson the left is so divided.
Red and blue have been cycling in power for the past century ruling with the same authoritarian policies, none of these two are “leftist” they are both shit.
No offense, you give the same vibes as anarchists that say it is better to not vote at all to show they are against the state.
What would be your plan, Mamdani making a party of his own and getting nowhere because he has no platform to stand on, allowing a Republican or an average Democrat to get in power instead?
In an ideal world, he wouldn’t need to use Democrat’s party as a platform. But we aren’t in an ideal world, so if you want change, you need an existant platform to stand on.
What would be your plan, Mamdani making a party of his own and getting nowhere because he has no platform to stand on
Running for corrupted parties with a century old history of doing shit will not get anyone anywhere. If you actually want to get some change the best option is to build and support a new platform where to stand on, like the one you are using right now.
And where will that end up? Oh, in one of the two biggest parties getting the votes anyways because it’s where most people go to, but with a worse candidate.
But go on about how it is more useful to be irrelevant and correct than relevant and half correct.
Honestly, the thing I don’t see going anywhere is this conversation. You aren’t going to change my mind and I’m not gonna change yours. If you think it’s more useful to start from zero, that’s your belief, I got mine. Hope you have a great day.
To be part of the change he is asking for
SPOT ON! Get this dude to the White House!!!
I’d love to see some blue governors balancing their budgets. It’s a good look.
Well duh. It’s a lot of the reason we are where we are. Nobody gives a shit about the working class, so people switch back and forth from red to blue and back, always disappointed in whoever is in power.
No shit, it’s always about the donors. But pay attention, how did we get Mamdani? NYC has one of the most generous donation matching programs. For mayor a donation gets matched 8 to 1. Donation matching was in the For The People Act.
Seems like every democrat is saying the exact same thing he’s saying. The strategy of the Dems seems to be be “Democrats suck. So vote for me, a democrat, because I agree with you about how much democrats suck!”
The real problem is the US has become a fascist society. But Americans are too narcissistic to do any introspection so instead just look for someone to blame. But keep telling yourself that it’s the fault of democrats that you’re too obsessed with your image on social media to just cast a vote for the not-fascists.
No shit. They also painted themselves into a corner by allying with radical SJW ideologues that are thirsty to censor anyone that slightly challenges their ideology
The current Republican administration literally banned the phrase “clean water”, shut the fuck up.
Really convincing me to vote blue no matter who! The anger and “bonus hole” bullshit pushed by the dummies over the last decade has blown up spectacularly in the faces of those who peddled the bullshit. Gl winning with your dogshit attitude 🫡
The Ds couldn’t even be bothered to increase minimum wage under Biden… his very platform.
They didn’t even try a standalone bill. No “nuclear option” to pass with simple majority.
Mamdani (and Bernie, and AOC) is right! We haven’t had a labor party for 50 years; we have two corporate parties, one is religious and one is secular flavored.
Labor was fucked in USA before AI, now? I don’t think we’re coming back from this, it’s rotten to the core.I hope I’m wrong.
Citizens United for the win
I’ll grant that they didn’t even try for a standalone minimum wage increase. I’d be curious to know how that would go too. But it was meant to go into one of the earlier spending bills that had to be passable by a simple majority. Those kinds of bills have certain requirements, or else they’re subject to the fucked up filibuster rules the Senate has.
The Senate parliamentarian ruled that a minimum wage increase was more than a budget change and did not fit those requirements. I thought Democrats’ argument that it affected revenue via resulting taxes and therefore budgeting was a reasonable one, but it didn’t quite fly.
Anyway, to say “the Ds couldn’t even be bothered to increase minimum wage under Biden” is a little disingenuous IMO. They did make one honest effort, at least, and anything else was pretty much doomed.
They did make one honest effort, at least, and anything else was pretty much doomed.
No. Joe Biden and 44 Democratic senators and 36 Republican senators were not making an honest effort to fight for workers when they voted to block the rail strike in 2022. It doesn’t matter how many times you try to say otherwise. Blocking strikes is anti-worker pro-corporate behavior. Period.
I’m talking about minimum wage and nothing else.
Of course not. Because if you zoom out it’s pretty obvious Joe Biden and most Democratic politicians are pro-corporate trash who have no interest in fighting for American workers.
And if you change the subject you can always get your point across. Great job.
I didn’t change the subject. You’re asserting that if Biden and Democratic politicians had the ability to bump minimum wages they would. I challenged your assertion by demonstrating when Democratic politicians have the power to help American workers they decide in force to side with corporations.
And yes, I did get my point across. I’m glad you acknowledge that.
Other guy: “Democrats didn’t even raise minimum wage”
Me: “Well, they tried that one thing. Here’s what happened for that particular issue, how it was attempted, and how the Senate’s screwed up rules stopped them”
You: “But they didn’t block the train strike!”
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Anyway, yes, you got your point across. If only it had anything to do with mine of what happened on a different day
That’s the thing. Obstruction is so much easier. So Republicans have been able to stop most of the progress we would have made.
Well he’s not wrong
Did it ever actually have a true genuine focus on working people?
Absolutely FDR
That’s when the Democrats had a populist message and actually helped the working class
It also resulted in them controlling like 80% of Congress
It also probably stopped America from falling to a revolution (even if it provoked the business plot, but that went nowhere luckily)
I do think that the US should’ve become a socialist country during the Great Depression (if not for FDR, that is).
Sure seems like the businesses have won to me
In the long run they did take back control, but the The Business Plot did happen for a reason, capital hated FDR
In a different timeline, we might have had Smedley Butler lining up Henry Ford and other magnates against a wall, without offering a final cigar.
I’d say that’s the point of having a functional democracy: you respond to the needs of the people with a series of bloodless revolutions in the form of elections so as to make bloody revolutions unnecessary. Why should there be cities in flames and blood in the streets when one can have a series of votes instead?
This is predicated on the the concept of a functional democracy, of course, whereas ours has become less and less functionally representative every year since 1929, and then got a bullet to the brain from Citizens United.
They need huge money to win big elections. Huge money hates working class.
Huge money hates working class.
Historically, the working class was a popular source of fundraising and campaign staffing. But after generations of economic and political decay, mobilizing large numbers of people has grown more difficult while raising a ton of money from one self-interested party has grown comparatively simple.
It’s a vicious cycle. Corruption fuels anti-labor politics. Anti-labor politics incentivizes further corruption.
Eventually, you’re looking at an India or Russia, where a handful of ultra-conservative oligarchs rule with an iron fist.
Eventually, you’re looking at an India or Russia, where a handful of ultra-conservative oligarchs rule with an iron fist.
I think we are there already. I am not just saying Trump, he is just the last step. Trump has ripped off the veil and shown our government is just a bunch of oligarchs in a trench coat.
The Iran war has shown why the DOD has never passed an audit, American wunderwaffe is nothing more than Russia style corruption. Weapon systems that cost billions that are getting outsmarted by conventional rockets, drones and MANPADs. Hell, the Gerald Ford the newest Gen carrier that cost 13B to produce got taken out of the fight by a “laundry fire”
The AI datacenters are both of the things everybody fears. Blatant market corruption in plain site that’s going to take out a bunch of peoples retirement plans when it pops and the beginning of a total surveillance state.
I wish he would say the quiet part out loud:
They have been compromised and infected by money. The only solution is to make bribery illegal again.
But that would be antisemitic.
Campaign Finance Reform is the issue from which ALL other issues flow.
Bribery? You mean capitalism?
Bribery is now free speech
Watch the republican and democrat party join together in the next decade to this new way of thinking. That’s what happened in Mexico when PRI and PAN were mortal enemies but when a new party threatened their power, they decided to join forces.
That’s the typical story whenever socialism seems to be gaining traction: the liberal and social democrat parties join forces with the fascists because they are fundamentally all bourgeois parties.
Our politics today are pretty much an exact duplicate of the last days of the weimar republic. Centrists will sacrifice everything to keep progressives out of power-- even ceding control to the right.
Lost its focus on everything except their job security and their corporate donors. Toss in a few strong words defending rainbow crosswalks to appease the masses.
