This is great! Can’t wait for him to no be able to do anything due to gridlock from the NYC democratic party machine and have to capitulate constantly, and then the massive Centrist Lib media apparatus will blame every problem plaguing NYC (even if the problems predated his mayoralship) which will give the Dem establishment more ammunition to blame all their woes on the progressive wing of the party and sell disenfranchised urban poor voters on establishment Dems.
Really a big fucking win for us. Letting the city sink under and establishment Dem was totally not the smarter fucking move.
Also if anyone calls me a doomer for this take I’ll be recording your usernames and asking you how you feel about this post in a year from now.
Even if he disappoints it is something to work with. Just like how Sanders caused an uptick through mobilizing socdems and then disappointed them, helping them radicalize.
if bernie completely stayed out of the last two presidential elections we probably don’t even get this one.
fuck him anyway but normalizing socialism is good
It was the right’s demonizing of ‘socialism’ when I was a kid and then seeing ‘socialists’ like Bernie become popular that led me to look into wtf socialism even was, and now I’m here
There is essentially no proper civic or political education for kids in the US, this is good for starting them on the path to real leftism.
I was taught about socialism in school, and it honestly seemed very reasonable to me, especially when contrasted with capitalism.
What i wasnt taught was about countries successfully implementing socialism (the USSR was apparently deviating from socialism) and so I just thought it was yet to ever work. Also I was taught the Nazis were some variant of socialism.
Then you get older and start becoming anti-socialist because “my stonks” or “the free market provides the best solution for all”. I think thats because anything socialist introduced into a capitalist society highlights the contradictions of capitalism. Then you need to come to the understanding that socialist reforms dont work, and the only way socialism can work is a complete transformation of society.
As Lenin (or I think Marx) states, you need to smash the old state and create a new one, the working class cannot simply lay hold of the state machinery to use it for its own advancement