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They always complain about how the young don’t vote and then mock them when they organize for candidates like Bernie or Zohran
Putting in Cuomo as the candidate feels like they werent even trying
if the democratic party was a real political party he would've been kicked out
The loser that got al franken kicked out was one of the most visibly upset people after this win. I love how the party that got upset about the Muslim ban and all the deportations think this guy is going to enact nationwide Sharia law. He's running for mayor he basically will have next to zero power
And they acted like he just inserted himself into the situation. Like they wanted to have their cake and eat it too by distancing themselves but still blocking leftward movement
"No elect! Only 
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It's because they're not organizing for the correct candidate.
it wasn't laziness, it was ineffectiveness. they did a full media press to smear him and it didn't work
He came from outta nowhere, like last place in the polls with no name recognition. By the time the establishment was actually reacting to him it was too late. And for whatever reason they kept hitting the Israel point despite him clearly gaining steam every time they did
It shows the effectiveness of door knocking. Advertising and rallies alert your enemies that you are a threat, but when you stay on the ground and knock on peoples' doors you fly under the radar until you build momentum and it's too late.
Democracy is when you vote for the guy I tell you to instead of the guy you want to
AOC was elected 2 years into trump 1, by beating out a grotesque, establishment dem in a safe seat by sniping them in their primary with a sudden, highly effective and populist ground game.
while the correct ideological take is to doubt her commitment to sparkle motion and the NYC mayor primary is different from a us house of representative dem primary, there's a logic to the pattern:
trump wins, the dark blue safe seat dem leadership goes to sleep, believing the backlash to trump will be something they can easily hop on for a win without having to do anything, forgetting that an energized base might just go with someone who articulates an alternative to milquetoast opposition instead of seeking the endorsement of the usual cast of assholes.
Me @ AOC
"We should vote" "no no, not like this"
"if you want progressive candidates, you have to vote in the primaries! That's when you can get what you want. Then you have to fall in line"
Progressive wins, Dems refuse to fall in line
Did they even get lazy? Maybe when it comes to drumming up candidates but didn't they spend some insane amount of money?
It’s funny how much his strategy actually seemed to do the thing Democrats always claim they wanna do and listened to people who were on the fence about why they’d swapped over to Trump. God forbid
emergency NY landlord meeting 
‘oh shit maybe this guy can’t be bought off’
I’m sure he will be 
(Or destroyed, either is fine)
I would say it also boils down to islamophobia
Its nice to see leftists (whatever you think of Mamdani's politics, I think its safe to say he is left of the democrats) be able to take advantage of the democrats' inability to put up good candidates or promote good policies. It was tiring seeing the republicans being the only ones beating them when they made it so easy for anyone to
Also didn't a decent number of richer ppl vote for him?
100k is not a lot of money in nyc
All of this and Cuomo still gets to run as an independent...
this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2025
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