DNC: “What can we do? What can we do? Nothing seems to work!”
Mamdani: Does a thing that works remarkably well
DNC: “No, not like that.”
They refused to change with the times or let the younger generation take over. They wanted to keep their power and stay in the past so badly that they don’t even know what the people they represent want anymore and are out of touch. Some of these Democrats have been in office longer than the younger voters have even been alive. They shunned progressives like Bernie just so they could keep things the way they are. Mamdani was inevitable.
This is something that I have noticed over the past decade. It’s not just the Republicans that want to go back to the “good old days” and stay in the past as long as possible. The difference is that Republicans will force things to go back while Democrats would drag their feet as long as possible so that things don’t change. It’s why we’ve needed younger people on both sides for over 20 years. Just to put it into perspective, if you are over the age of 70 there’s a good chance that you didn’t even have color TV when you were a kid. Brown vs. The Board of Education that ruled segregation in schools was unconstitutional happened in 1954. Trump was about 8 years old when that happened.
Agree. Shooting for the middle all these years has made the dems look useless. They gotta steer harder to the left…or else it’s over for em.
Dems continue to be a centrist party for the rich. They need to dissolve to make room for a party which puts regular citizens first.
You’ll need literal drums of hydrochloric acid to dissolve the rich if you want to make way for a new party.
i don’t mean literally dissolving flesh.
I’m not opposed to it, it just wasn’t my intention.
Narrator: “They didn’t.”
They didn’t.
They aren’t.
They won’t.They will let fascism kill them, literally even, before ever adopting policies that weaken their own ill-gained wealth.
So many of the “centrist” social democrats from Weimer Germany ended up in the camps or victims of the post-July 20th purge. You’d think the Chuck Schumers in the Democratic party would be aware of that.
This all or nothing things annoys me. Johnson has done alright in chicago and we will see how mamdani does. Pritzker, walz are great. Bernie is still pushing forward. Don’t get me wrong. Mamdani is the right direction. My senators have done alright but being somewhat progressive is not longer going to cut it going forward.
Johnson has done alright in chicago
Johnson has been disappointing, although he’s been subject to constant and withering Media attacks his entire mayoralty, which is something Mandani can also expect. Johnson’s substantive problem are not his policies but the fact that he’s still a little too machined-up and not quite as progressive as we were hoping. For instance, I guess he owes a lot of south side preachers a lot so he has given them sinecures in his administration. Unfortunately some end up in positions where they’re way out of their depth like Carter at the CTA.
I think we also tended to see a lot of hopes for reform in Johnson where he had no intention of delivering. He mostly ran as not-Rahm-not-Lightfoot-not-Vallas rather than articulating a positive vision. We kinda hoped he had one but he doesn’t really seem to. This is not a problem Mandani has.
I think much of this is after the fact thinking. There was much more hope in his running which is why I want to see what mandani does. How much is talk and how much is walk. Still im glad for johnsons pushback on the rediculous curfew legislation.
I’m still extremely happy Johnson won because the alternative was Vallas. Not looking forward to the next election though because I don’t think Johnson can win a second term and I know they’re going to pull out some Vallas-like creature.
Johnson’s base was extremely hopeful that he would be a forceful reformist and we’ve been disappointed. Carter is a good example, I guess Carter did recently resign on his own and now the CTA has an acting director, but we were hoping Johnson would fire Carter and the whole board and bring in people who actually care about transit. Johnson, however, doesn’t seem to care at all about the CTA and doesn’t want to have anything to do with it.
We were hoping Johnson was the second coming of Harold Washington and even though HW’s term was chaos due to the council wars at least he was fighting. Johnson doesn’t appear to be a fighter.
Can’t say Im a big washington fan but yeah transit is a big mistake given how important it is to the people of the city. There is a reason the chicago bicycle federation became the active transit alliance. This was the biggest thing daley had going for him was he was laser focused on infrastructure.
