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Voted for Mandani. We need to pay attention to the younger voters.

want him to become a role model.

However, I always vote Democratic. I have never NOT voted and have never voted 'Uncommitted'.

Your statement above is correct, however I wish you had told that to a State Congress person who told her district NOT to vote for Biden and that urging carried over to the GE. They chanted F**K Joe Biden and called him Genocide Joe.

You lecture about anyone voting for Cuomo is supporting a sexual predator, when those that voted for tsf, or sat out the vote were the very ones that willfully voted for a child molester.

Cuomo is running as an independent just to screw over Mamdani. His father is rolling over in his grave. Lived in The Bronx until married and his father was a lion. Not a lecture, but Cuomo was an embarrassment and now we have Hochul.
Not going over the 24 elections, still hurts so much.
The DNC should be 100% behind Mamdani, full stop.

I suspect many people have spoken to Cuomo and attempted to give him a profitable and dignified offramp, but you don't get to be at the top of the hill of NY political families by standing down when the odds are against you.

I think DNC knows what they have in Mamdani (future Governor/Senator or even higher for an increasingly Muslim public) and they are content to let the voters recognize that.

And isn’t the DNC responsible for national/federal elections? Don’t really recall them getting involved in a local Mayor’s race in the past.

Because he threatens them just like AOC does, just like Bernie Sanders did.

This election is of national significance. Mamdani is the kind of leader we need at every level.

... and then go into some freak out when the will of the people nominates a Democratic candidate that doesn't tow some "company line" that the crazy quilt coalition that has always made up this party has never quite bought.

I am sick and tired of the major push recently from some quarters that the "only" way to "save" our party is to embrace some new version of watered down DLC, "third-way" mealy-mouthed platitudes.

Accept it. This is a diverse party. We don't need to hit on some magical set of policy proposals that "everyone" agrees on. We don't need to silence inspiring voices who say we can do better or more.

We need to get clear on some basic, shared values. And recognize the direction those values point us. And be bold about advocating those goals -- goals like universal health care, even while we recognize that we have work to do to build the political will.

We need to welcome voices from across the Anti-Christian Nationalist, Pro-Christian Values, Pro-Universal Health Care, Pro-Workers, Pro-Climate Sanity, Pro-Agriculture, Pro-Democracy 2.0 (like actually funding citizen assemblies), and Pro-Other Shit that pisses off some of those other people, but is nevertheless aligned on some fundamental principles on which we can make progress.

Politics is messy. The ONE thing that we as Democrats should embrace is our belief in our fellow humans and our will to get into the game; our belief that expanding and engaging people in the process of shaping their own government, not some perfect candidate who will "fix it" for us, is the ONLY way we can even begin to redeem our national soul.

I am sick to death of calls for some "leader" or "the party" to emerge with the magic plan fix all this shit for us. True leaders will make it clear that we need to get engaged in the messy, fucked up, process of finding common ground where we can -- and there are LOTS of areas of violent agreement -- and build the political will to move forward on the things we can.

The government is not some alien being oppressing us. It is ours to shape. And that belief is the central difference between US and THEM.

So, how could they justify hiding your post?
We should all back the Democratic nominee even if we can't vote for him. Unless a photo of him at a party with EPSTEIN comes out, he should get all of the Democratic support.

Legs crossed

and it's hurting him.

He’s anti genocide. He also puts New York before anyone else.

We need to stop making this about antisemitism.

What is the DNC doing that is hurting Mamdani? And since DNC stands for Democratic National Committee, why should they be involved in a local election?

They are the "National" committee for a reason, and it's not to focus on the politics of localities that already consistently vote correctly.

anywhere all the time. I wonder if we'll manage to snatch defeat from victory.