He won the primary so they have to run him. They’ve still unofficially backed Cuomo and even Adams, though, and all of the NY Dem leadership were either late in endorsing him or haven’t yet.
He won the primary in a surprise landslide against the establishment favorite and they’ve been sulking ever since.
In contrast, Adams won his primary by a tiny margin and they were falling over each other to declare him “the future of the party” the very next day.
Well, the rules are forcing them to run with Mamdani. Plenty of Democratic lawmakers do not like it. Cory Booker, Chuck Schumer, a lot of democratic legislators in his own state are not endorsing him. A lot of them did endorse Cuomo, if they didn’t this year, they have in the past, so to be suddenly mum and not even a feeble “I support him” is… odd at best.
There’s also no word behind the scenes that any legislators are even attempting to get Cuomo to drop out after… how many years has the argument been that third parties split the democratic vote? Now you have a Democrat doing just that and no condemnation from any new York legislators that he’s risking a republican victory. Not even a chant of “Blue no matter who” If bernie sanders had ran independent against Hillary, would Democratic leaders be this silent? Schumer would be furious and making press conferences condemning him. He doesn’t do that to cuomo.
In the meantime, multiple sources have been pushing mayor Adams to step down from his own independent race. Both democratic and republican (and billionaire), presumably to get more votes to cuomo.
Looks someone didn’t follow the primary lol. Even now establishment dems range from luke-warm to outright refusal to endorse him. The attack campaigns and hugely asymmetric funding for his opponents has largely been from dems.
He’s the democrat nominee because he won against all odds, not because the establishment welcomed him.
Well. We have a bit of a situation. While not too many of us were paying attention, the democratic party was all bought and paid for by aipac and pac. We all thought it was just Republicans. It wasn’t.
The Dems have been becoming less for the people and just another Republican party. And for the last 10 years at least (likely accelerated by citizens United (aka- legal bribing of politicians) they are basically almost 100% Republican. I recall telling my lefty friends I thought Kamala sounded like a Republican. Cause she did.
Democrats were presented like the party that supported BLM, trans rights, pro lgbtq. Pro education. Housing the homeless. Food for kids. Free education. All that good stuff.
But in reality they have done very little for any of those things. They just didn’t publicly go against any of them.
Though they often did vote against them if the aipac or pac money told them too. They are like 80% bought and paid for.
We incorrectly assumed they stood with those good things. In part due to a few of the Dem politicians actually pushing a few bills. Mostly at the state level.
But literally just a handful of bills in the last decade. Nothing that actually fully protected these groups or services.
So when Trump started his illegal b.s, they weren’t going to go against him. Why would they. ?
Many Dems voted for his completely unqualified cabinet members.
That was at the start of the year.
Now after things have been ramping up, we have about a dozen Dems (in office) finally speaking up.
Out of those. Half are posers. They voted with Trump on cabinet picks, to block Epstein list. And they voted against Al Greens impeachment. Oh and let’s not forget. The big beautiful bill. Plenty of Dems voted for it.
So here is our predicament.
We have a compromised party.
They dem posers are going to do whatever they can to keep their positions and pac money.
It’s a corrupt “club”. They don’t want anyone coming in and disrupting their power.
They don’t want new dems coming in who will show everyone how corrupt they are. Call them out.
Show the people it can be different.
These corrupt Dems all need to go. And right now there are so damn many of them. Including Jeffries and Schumer. That it’s going to be a challenge just to get the party cleaned up.
At the same time we are trying to fight fascist take over.
It’s quite a lot.
But we have to clean house. Replace every single one if we have to. Any who are not being incredibly vocal and direct about Israel, Gaza, human rights, and trump.
No more Dems who won’t make a stand for us.
No more Republicans pretending to be Dems.
Many are saying we need a 3rd party. We do have independents. But I do think we can take the dem party back for the people. We just need to vote in the right people. Push back against corporate bots and propaganda. Vote in our own self interest.
Isn’t Mamdani a democrat? Can you explain how the democratic party running Mamdani shows they are removed from their voters?
He won the primary so they have to run him. They’ve still unofficially backed Cuomo and even Adams, though, and all of the NY Dem leadership were either late in endorsing him or haven’t yet.
He won the primary in a surprise landslide against the establishment favorite and they’ve been sulking ever since.
In contrast, Adams won his primary by a tiny margin and they were falling over each other to declare him “the future of the party” the very next day.
Well, the rules are forcing them to run with Mamdani. Plenty of Democratic lawmakers do not like it. Cory Booker, Chuck Schumer, a lot of democratic legislators in his own state are not endorsing him. A lot of them did endorse Cuomo, if they didn’t this year, they have in the past, so to be suddenly mum and not even a feeble “I support him” is… odd at best.
There’s also no word behind the scenes that any legislators are even attempting to get Cuomo to drop out after… how many years has the argument been that third parties split the democratic vote? Now you have a Democrat doing just that and no condemnation from any new York legislators that he’s risking a republican victory. Not even a chant of “Blue no matter who” If bernie sanders had ran independent against Hillary, would Democratic leaders be this silent? Schumer would be furious and making press conferences condemning him. He doesn’t do that to cuomo.
In the meantime, multiple sources have been pushing mayor Adams to step down from his own independent race. Both democratic and republican (and billionaire), presumably to get more votes to cuomo.
Looks someone didn’t follow the primary lol. Even now establishment dems range from luke-warm to outright refusal to endorse him. The attack campaigns and hugely asymmetric funding for his opponents has largely been from dems.
He’s the democrat nominee because he won against all odds, not because the establishment welcomed him.
Well. We have a bit of a situation. While not too many of us were paying attention, the democratic party was all bought and paid for by aipac and pac. We all thought it was just Republicans. It wasn’t.
The Dems have been becoming less for the people and just another Republican party. And for the last 10 years at least (likely accelerated by citizens United (aka- legal bribing of politicians) they are basically almost 100% Republican. I recall telling my lefty friends I thought Kamala sounded like a Republican. Cause she did.
Democrats were presented like the party that supported BLM, trans rights, pro lgbtq. Pro education. Housing the homeless. Food for kids. Free education. All that good stuff. But in reality they have done very little for any of those things. They just didn’t publicly go against any of them.
Though they often did vote against them if the aipac or pac money told them too. They are like 80% bought and paid for.
We incorrectly assumed they stood with those good things. In part due to a few of the Dem politicians actually pushing a few bills. Mostly at the state level.
But literally just a handful of bills in the last decade. Nothing that actually fully protected these groups or services.
So when Trump started his illegal b.s, they weren’t going to go against him. Why would they. ?
Many Dems voted for his completely unqualified cabinet members.
That was at the start of the year.
Now after things have been ramping up, we have about a dozen Dems (in office) finally speaking up.
Out of those. Half are posers. They voted with Trump on cabinet picks, to block Epstein list. And they voted against Al Greens impeachment. Oh and let’s not forget. The big beautiful bill. Plenty of Dems voted for it.
So here is our predicament. We have a compromised party.
They dem posers are going to do whatever they can to keep their positions and pac money.
It’s a corrupt “club”. They don’t want anyone coming in and disrupting their power.
They don’t want new dems coming in who will show everyone how corrupt they are. Call them out. Show the people it can be different.
These corrupt Dems all need to go. And right now there are so damn many of them. Including Jeffries and Schumer. That it’s going to be a challenge just to get the party cleaned up.
At the same time we are trying to fight fascist take over.
It’s quite a lot.
But we have to clean house. Replace every single one if we have to. Any who are not being incredibly vocal and direct about Israel, Gaza, human rights, and trump.
No more Dems who won’t make a stand for us. No more Republicans pretending to be Dems.
Many are saying we need a 3rd party. We do have independents. But I do think we can take the dem party back for the people. We just need to vote in the right people. Push back against corporate bots and propaganda. Vote in our own self interest.