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  • In an interview on CNN, former Obama campaign manager David Axelrod suggested that the refusal to back Mamdani was probably the result of “donor pressure.”

    So the Democrats are really the Party of the Corporate donors and not the membership. Continues reading the article.

    Though Mamdani has surged in recent months with small-dollar donors, big money in the city has been behind Cuomo and other centrist candidates.

    The biggest of these is the billionaire-funded Fix the City PAC, which received an $8.3 million donation from former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and as of late August had dropped more than $15 million to keep Cuomo afloat.

    Another fund, called New Yorkers for a Better Future Mayor '25 has yet to declare a favorite, but has both barrels locked on Mamdani. Under a similar name, this PAC marshalled support for more than a dozen corporate-friendly city council candidates early this year, with support from the pro-Israel hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and several major players in New York’s real estate industry. It has announced a goal of raising $25 million to defeat Mamdani in November.

    There it is. The Democrat leadership is firmly for the billionaires and corpos.













  • In the UK, the backbenchers (the nobodies of Parliament) can assert a lot of power. Case in point, the revolving door of Conservative Prime Ministers. All the changes to the Conservative Prime Minister was because of the backbenchers had a lot of power to cause problems. In essence, the Conserative MPs actually did what the Westminister style of government is meant. The Prime Minister is only the Prime Minister cause they have the support of the House.

    In theory, more US House Reps would be able to act as the check on the President’s powers like Congress is suppose to do. The more reps they are, the harder it would be for the President to entact their agenda. Since there would be people to convince.