I've been asking this for days and have not gotten a clear answer in what way is the DNC fighting the candidate put forth to the generals by the DNC?
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The democratic governor, for instance, has said she won't fund Mamdani's programs.
That's fine because Mamdani isn't asking for state funding, AFAIK. His $60M grocery store plan reallocates funding which would have gone to business subsidies for grocery stores, his other ideas cost an estimated $3M and $5M out of a $116Bn fiscal budget. Since Property Taxes are not handled by the state he doesn't need permission to raise them on.
Making buses free might actually save them money from investigating unpaid tickets.
I would love what you're saying to be true, but I don't think it is:
Two of the three key planks in his platform — making buses free to ride and providing universal free child care — would require action from the governor and state legislature, including raising taxes by billions of dollars. (The third, freezing the rent on rent-stabilized apartments, can be accomplished at the city level.)
I'm not sure how trustworthy that article is, since it also claims Cuomo comfortably won Brooklyn but the results for Brooklyn were Mamdani 48% to Cuomo 31%. Property taxes do not require state congress and the NYC budget is also separate from the state treasury. It does mention 3 dissenting state congressmen out of 150, the party breakdown being 83D 22R 45O.
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He was put forth by the people not by DNC.
You don't get into the DNC primary via petition, my guy. You ask the DNC to join and they give out invitations to the ones who can run on their ticket.
They didn't expect him to win. He was the olive branch to people on the left in order to say "see? We had someone with more pro-social ideas and he wasn't popular enough. Let's try shifting further to the right and see if we get more votes that way."
They expect every candidate to have a chance of winning when they hold primaries. Bernie came somewhat close to beating HRC in 2016, if he had like 4 million more votes they wouldn't have been able to do anything about stopping him from running the entire nation, unlikely that they would try.
DNC is the left party, the party of progress, now and decades prior.
Bernie came somewhat close to beating HRC in 2016
Bernie came close while simultaneously getting sandbagged at every opportunity by the DNC. If he'd gotten the same kind of attention as Hillary, there's a very good chance he would have won.
DNC is only the party of progress because there isn't another viable party that's better at it. It's up to us to push them to the left, because they're really bad at doing it themselves. NYC proved that it's possible; I only hope it mobilizes the rest of the left-leaning populace to take similar action. Vote blue and do what you can locally to enact change.
I repeat, he did lose by 4 Million Votes. Supposed, uncoroborated, sandbagging aside, Hillary was the more popular candidate.
You're not pushing the party left by telling everyone they're an unviable bunch of corporate shills, you're just convincing people not to vote for them and letting Republicans win.
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