Even as Mamdani romps his challengers in the latest poll, Democratic leadership is still hesitating to endorse him. Former Obama strategist David Axelrod blames "donor pressure" on leaders like Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer.
Yeah. I read a pretty good article that made the case for downplaying political parties as the unit of power entirely, and focusing on unions built and operated by the workers as the primary method of organizing and batching up power in elections. It was a lot more that way in the middle of the 20th century and definitely things were a fuck of a lot better back then.
It does make sense that if you make a specific class of people whose job is wield and collect power, and nothing in particular else, then they’ll become fuckheads over time.
Important to remember that this kind of system can and will have problems of its own aplenty; unions can turn bad, too. Still, I agree it’d almost certainly be better than what we have now, low a bar as that is.
Yeah. I think most of the issue is that when things get easy, people turn complacent, and the rot comes in. But having it connected in some theoretical sense to people’s coworkers (and in particular having their politics-people fighting for their economic rights against a clear villain on a day-to-day basis, instead of just jetting around Washington doing God knows what) does seem like a baseline improvement.
Also, Things are about to get super fucking hard and probably stay that way for quite a while, so we definitely won’t have that complacency problem going forward.
Yeah. I read a pretty good article that made the case for downplaying political parties as the unit of power entirely, and focusing on unions built and operated by the workers as the primary method of organizing and batching up power in elections. It was a lot more that way in the middle of the 20th century and definitely things were a fuck of a lot better back then.
It does make sense that if you make a specific class of people whose job is wield and collect power, and nothing in particular else, then they’ll become fuckheads over time.
Important to remember that this kind of system can and will have problems of its own aplenty; unions can turn bad, too. Still, I agree it’d almost certainly be better than what we have now, low a bar as that is.
Yeah. I think most of the issue is that when things get easy, people turn complacent, and the rot comes in. But having it connected in some theoretical sense to people’s coworkers (and in particular having their politics-people fighting for their economic rights against a clear villain on a day-to-day basis, instead of just jetting around Washington doing God knows what) does seem like a baseline improvement.
Also, Things are about to get super fucking hard and probably stay that way for quite a while, so we definitely won’t have that complacency problem going forward.