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[–] 93 points 11 months ago (13 children)

Holy crap have they STILL not had that election yet?

The election cycle for mayor of New York is taking something like three times longer than that of a General Election in most countries, and because most talk shows are filmed in NYC the rest of the world has been getting a wildly disproportionate amount of coverage on it. I should not know this much information about the election of a city I've visited twice ever.

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  • [–] 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    This is not a normal election. This is a unique moment in recent American history. While the MAGAs are forcibly dragging us into Fascism, we finally have a viable Progressive candidate for a major office. Not only that, but it's the kind of office where Progressive policies can actually be tried out, and proven to work, or not.

    Not since FDR, have we had an opportunity like this, and we need it as badly now as we did back then. .

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  • [–] 17 points 11 months ago*

    it'll be a major wakeup call for progressives across the country too, about how weak establishment-dems grasp really is, that they can lose NYC to a actual self-described socialist.

    the GOP died to a personality cult in 2016, the old guard dem's can be swept aside just as easily if they continue trying to campaign on "returning to normalcy" (read, blatant unsustainable ratfucking).

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Smaller city, but don't forget about Omar Fateh in Minneapolis too. He won the DNC nomination against corporatist Frey and the DNC rolled back their nomination after the fact.

    There are fights like this happening in more than just New York. It's important to keep that in mind.

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  • [–] 29 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    I don't know what you're expecting. The election day hasn't changed. It's the first Tuesday in November, always has been and, barring anything extremely unconstitutional from certain spray tanned individuals, it always will be.

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  • [–] -2 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    But America bad, remember? Can you believe America, taking a long time to elect officials?

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  • [+] -8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Clearly we need a European style democracy where the people vote for parties A B and C and then A and C win and form a government with X Y and Z so that there's a Frankenstein government that literally nobody voted for. It's more democratic, you see.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    I would like to take issue with your last two points. People in Europe vote knowing a coalition government is the outcome, meaning many people did in fact vote for Frankenstein’s Monster. Also, with the coalition, more people are represented in the government, meaning a wider range of opinions and subjectively more democratic.

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  • [–] 13 points 11 months ago

    Americans love drama. The more they can draw out their soap opera elections, the better the ratings.

    I hope he wins, though. The Dems need more people like him.

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