Zohran Mamdani has won the race for New York City mayor, according to Decision Desk HQ, ushering in a new era of progressive politics in the city and reigniting the debate over the Democratic Party’s future.
Mamdani, a 34-year-old democratic socialist, is poised to become the first millennial and first Muslim to lead New York City, after a campaign that pulled off one of the most stunning political upsets in recent memory. He defeated former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who mounted a long-shot independent bid after losing to Mamdani in the Democratic primary, and Republican Curtis Sliwa in his bid to succeed Mayor Eric Adams.
Mamdani focused heavily on affordability, pledging to freeze rent, establish city-owned grocery stores and make buses free for riders. He quickly became a progressive icon as well as a polarizing figure within the party over his positions, so much so that it divided prominent New York Democratic leadership over whether to endorse him.
A win for the people! Cuomo’s campaign expenses were $56 million, 2.5 times higher than Mamdani’s. Cuomo was mostly funded by billionaires, while Mamdani had mostly small sum contributions.
Why are capitalists so bad at investments?? Weren’t they supposed to be the smart entrepreneurs?
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56 million dollars is pocket change for a single billionaire. It’s less than that for a multitude of billionaires.
Well, that’s the only peaceful way. Revolution is always an option. But also, as long as the economic system allows individuals to hoard vast properties, the wealthy will use their power to influence politics.
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Of course. Serious revolutionaries know you must infiltrate or otherwise subvert the military to be successful.
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What do you mean?
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You say it’s unrealistic, and yet every successful socialist revolution has had the backing of at least some of the military. This is the stupidest thing about liberals, they always imagine that the way the world is now is the way it will always be. But material conditions are constantly changing and what seems impossible now may seem inevitable tomorrow. But you’ll never know if you keep dismissing the people who are actually trying to change the world as LARPers.
And btw, while I’m too old to be considered for military service, at least one revolutionary party, the PSL, has specifically created strategies to insert members into the military to foment revolutionary fervor. So yeah, people are doing exactly the thing that you deride as “unrealistic.”
Truth is that this sort of thing has worked out for them before. Trump would not be in office right now if he wasn’t bankrolled by Musk and Thiel. There were reports in early 2024 that the GOP was basically broke.
A few million to a campaign can be converted into billions of tax benefits. Just think of how much they got out of the Trump tax credits from the first term. Pile on top of that cases where they get sweet government contracts (like Palantir). It’s all a direct shift of money from the working class and into capitalists with the government as an intermediary.
Which is to say that, yes, it is good investment for them. They can afford to miss a few sometimes. Generally, they play the game to win more than they lose. If you win every time, it’s actually an Enron-style red flag.
Yeah but, Kamala outspent Trump by a wide margin. She had all the celebrity endorsements… and she failed miserably. More money is NOT the answer.
Like Mamdani said. They’re spending a lot more than what he’s planning on taxing them.
Historically and even now, it works. The ones who spend the most, gets the air time, and the George Carlin Americans eat it up and form their opinions after “doing their research” which is nothing but watching TV and facebook from other people who are George Carlin Americans.
It’s super effective and that amount of money where looking at is chump change to these guys.
The funniest part is that I never, at least from the clips, got the idea that George Carlin was a conservative but he did always have an air about him that I think made conservatives believe he wasn’t talking about them.
Now, I’m sure this will prompt me learning some things about Carlin but hey, I’m open to that too.
He was more anti-establishment than anything else. He was also famous enough to be in the big club we’re not in.
Wait, what’s a George Carlin American? He was pretty progressive afaik.
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.”
Ah.
I’d like to point out feckless Democrats that while Citizens United is bad… money ain’t everything.
Don’t worry. There is a small army of well paid McKinsey consultants right now reassuring the DNC that while economic populism won for Mamdani it would never work outside of New York. They will tell the ghouls bought and paid for by big money donors that yesterday wasn’t a complete loss, Liz Cheney could get some sympathy votes on the ticket if the DNC is just brave enough to make her the VP nom and pivot to the center.
Wait till they invent mind control and add shit to the water supply.
Never Forget, Flint, Michigan.
$56 million is a lot to us to plebs. However, to billionaries that’s pocket change.
According to https://www.news18.com/world/billionaires-who-spent-a-fortune-to-keep-zohran-mamdani-from-becoming-nyc-mayor-ws-dkl-9685336.html. The total spent by billionaires was $8.6 million. That’s couch cushion money to a billionaire. A billionaire wouldn’t even notice the money gone.
If anything it shows how cheap it is for billionaires to buy politicans. Billionaries are throwing pocket change at politcians going “Dance for us”.