This is great! Can’t wait for him to no be able to do anything due to gridlock from the NYC democratic party machine and have to capitulate constantly, and then the massive Centrist Lib media apparatus will blame every problem plaguing NYC (even if the problems predated his mayoralship) which will give the Dem establishment more ammunition to blame all their woes on the progressive wing of the party and sell disenfranchised urban poor voters on establishment Dems.
Really a big fucking win for us. Letting the city sink under and establishment Dem was totally not the smarter fucking move.
Also if anyone calls me a doomer for this take I’ll be recording your usernames and asking you how you feel about this post in a year from now.
I’ve seen good takes of yours and generally respect you, but I don’t like this one. Too much doomerism leads to doing nothing and sitting out the moment.
Of course. And then radicalize supporters against the establishment more. “You elected me to get these things done, but these corrupt neoliberal ghouls defy the will of the masses!” Or if he won’t, then others can.
They do this anyway! No matter what progressives do the Dem establishment will always punch left. They do not care about truth.
We may as well take the symbolic win and do something with it.
Everything is going to get worse whether we fight or not. The important thing is to let people see socialists, even “democratic” socialists, fighting for them. You don’t win friends and allies by standing by and not trying to help them. You do it by sticking your neck out for them. Waiting for the “perfect” moment to start fighting for the masses means it’ll never happen.
That’s fair.