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As Dem Establishment Backs Cuomo, Calls Grow for NYC Mayor Race to Be 'Referendum' on Party's Direction

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2w ago

As Dem Establishment Backs Cuomo, Calls Grow for NYC Mayor Race to Be 'Referendum' on Party's Direction

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“Third Way said it was concerned about Mamdani's affiliation with the Democratic Socialists of America and highlighted what they said were "extreme" policy proposals embraced by the DSA”
looks at so called ‘extreme’ proposals
“give everyone water, education, and healthcare.”
God I fucking hate centrists lol.
- Centrists are right wingers too afraid to own the label.
- And this is the people liberals want America to rally under.
"If a DSA member like Mamdani were to win ... it would be terrible for the city," reads the Third Way memo. "Do New Yorkers really want socialist city-run grocery stores?"
According to an April survey by the Climate & Community Institute and Data for Progress, they do. Two-thirds of New Yorkers said they support the creation of municipal grocery stores ... including 72% of Democratic voters ... Third Way executive vice president Matt Bennett insisted in an interview with Politico on Saturday that a Mamdani victory would allow Republicans to attach the Democratic Party "to ideas that are outside of the mainstream" on a national level.
Just classic establishment Dems here: attacking a wildly popular policy and supporting a corrupt sex offender to avoid fascists calling you a commie.
- "Do New Yorkers really want socialist city-run grocery stores?"
  Uh... yes? Is this their idea of spinning things in an unfavorable light? I guess this is the one time we can be glad establishment Dems are woefully out of touch.
  
  Any attack ad or article on Zohran always makes me want to vote for him harder
  
  Don't you see what kind of slippery slope this is? What's next? Affordable housing? Free healthcare??
  
  Dems aren't out of touch, they are Republican Lites, and always have been. The Dem leadership need to be purged, and the party re-branded.
- ...to avoid fascists calling you a commie.
  Which they will still do.
  
  Exactly. Why do they worry what fucking TRAITORS think?
- Iirc Third Way literally is a fascist expression (Mussolini?) and Hilary Rodham Clinton resurrected it, so it's horrible policy.
- My son is a mid 20-something, and extremely politically astute (I raised him that way), and none of his friends have that knee-jerk response to communism or socialism. The current system has been so bad, and getting worse, throughout their entire lives, that they don't understand why we're trying to save it. They'd just as soon try something different, considering what the current system has led to.
Fucking sore losers calling for reform when the ppl don’t give a fuck about them anymore and want actual progress
Rank Zohran #1 and don’t even bother with cuomo
Its becoming very obvious that thete isn't a path for progress through the Democrat party.
- I fucking hate this logic. Trump took over the Republican party through the primary without Republican party support. People need to vote for the progressives in the Democratic primaries and not wait for the Democrat establishment to endorse them.
  
  Yeah, progressives need to take over the party. That, or start a new one without the baggage in order to really change the system, but that's a lot harder. Not doing either of these is just giving up.
Best I can do is calls for fundraising, canvasing and doing better next election.
-The democratic establishment

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