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.
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.
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.