Andrea Junker 
In a world of Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries, be like Zohran Mamdani and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Solomon@Strandjunker as an outside observer it is hard to not consider them as a state sponsored "acceptable radicalism", which is basically not even criticizing what matters, or not having any effective influence on the policy ... I don't know about AOC, but Mamdani certainly looks like made for that role.
Jeremy KahnThings are so far shifted to the right in the US that "establishment radical" ideas (by European standards) are subject to attack from even the so-called "left" party establishment
In the US two party system, there can be no movement except to the right
one big exception here is the ranked voting system that let Mamdani (center left*, young, popular) run out front of Cuomo (center right* & corrupt, but not openly fascist)
*by European standards
@trochee @Strandjunker From my perspective: the "right" in the US celebrated absolute immunity, which makes them monarchists, so out of any democratic spectrum, and Mr Mamdani has zero relevant experience in administrating metropolises which makes him incompetent, not "left". I am not really sure there is much to celebrate in a clueless person being elected to any office, anywhere in the world; Recent years they are becoming ever more! That's a horrific trend.
@solomon_schloosser
So, elect the corrupt machine politicians because " the trains will run on time "?
Seems like we've tried that before
@trochee @Strandjunker if you are asking me to give you advice on a particular election, not my job; but if you mean it as a metaphor: elections are not the bed-rock of democracy, or good governance, or anything like that; The are just a tool, with an extremely limited scope of influence. I would recommend starting with newspapers, information, freedom of speech, supporting thinkers, authors ... in other words people changing themselves will change the government for the better ...
2xfo@solomon_schloosser @trochee @Strandjunker
Exactly right and not enough Americans will hear and understand it.
There's a reason all of these things have been under attack from the Right for,, almost a century now, geez!
Exactly right and not enough Americans will hear and understand it.
There's a reason all of these things have been under attack from the Right for,, almost a century now, geez!