New York poised for first South Asian - origin and Muslim mayor as Cuomo concedes to Mamdani

Watandar said:
The GOP is light years removed now from Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt.

www.newsweek.com

Republicans are selling "Deport Zohran" Mamdani T-shirts

The shirts, sold by the New York Young Republican Club, come amid continual attacks and criticism from Republicans about Mamdani.
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One jerk supports another

www.aljazeera.com

Trump says Cuomo ‘should stay’ in New York City mayor race against Mamdani

US Republican president slams Zohran Mamdani as a 'communist', says Andrew Cuomo has a 'good shot of winning'.
www.aljazeera.com www.aljazeera.com
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And US Democrats are more tolerant?

This just happens to be occurring up in @Oscar part of the woods:

www.foxnews.com

Christian coffee shop owner helping homeless faces protests in far-left city

Jamie Sanchez, owner of The Drip Café in Denver, which employs formerly homeless people, has encountered regular protests from communists.
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com
 
That_Guy said:
And if his proposals work, you'll never acknowledge them.

Also, how many times does it need to be said, he's not a communist. He's democratic socialist, which is not actually socialism. In any other country he'd be considered center-left.

I'm a socialist, he is not.
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The American politicians, at the behest of their corporations, have successfully played their public on the communism-capitalism false dichotomy. Your perspective is witchcraft to them.

Reminds me of a funny comment that "universal healthcare is so difficult to implement that only 31 out of 32 developed countries have been successful at it".
 
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AZ_HighCountry said:
And US Democrats are more tolerant?

This just happens to be occurring up in @Oscar part of the woods:

www.foxnews.com

Christian coffee shop owner helping homeless faces protests in far-left city

Jamie Sanchez, owner of The Drip Café in Denver, which employs formerly homeless people, has encountered regular protests from communists.
www.foxnews.com www.foxnews.com
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The NY mayoral race is exposing the xenophobia, especially on the democratic establishment side. The nativist streak in the Republican Party is a given; not the whole party, but it’s where the nativists feel most comfortable, claiming to hide behind policy differences when it’s actually blatant xenophobia. The dems were “supposed to be the egalitarian ones”. So much for vote blue no matter who. This race exposes the hypocrisy and many Mamdani voters will need to be wooed back if the establishment screw over Mamdani. So better for them to back Mamdani and moderate his positions than to try to sideline him like they did Bernie.
 
FuturePAF said:
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The NY mayoral race is exposing the xenophobia, especially on the democratic establishment side. The nativist streak in the Republican Party is a given; not the whole party, but it’s where the nativists feel most comfortable, claiming to hide behind policy differences when it’s actually blatant xenophobia. The dems were “supposed to be the egalitarian ones”. So much for vote blue no matter who. This race exposes the hypocrisy and many Mamdani voters will need to be wooed back if the establishment screw over Mamdani. So better for them to back Mamdani and moderate his positions than to try to sideline him like they did Bernie.
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It is not xenophia, it is just hard-nosed realpolitik. He is not mainstream, not just because of his ethnicity and religion, but also because of his ideological leanings and his lack of serious work experience that would prepare him to serve in the office of Mayor of NYC. He is just not going to be able to get enough votes from moderate voters who don't care about ideology and just want the city to be run properly, especially after the disaster of the last Dem mayor. No one in poliitics wants to back a loser.
 
sambody said:
It is not xenophia, it is just hard-nosed realpolitik. He is not mainstream, not just because of his ethnicity and religion, but also because of his ideological leanings and his lack of serious work experience that would prepare him to serve in the office of Mayor of NYC. He is just not going to be able to get enough votes from moderate voters who don't care about ideology and just want the city to be run properly, especially after the disaster of the last Dem mayor. No one in poliitics wants to back a loser.
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Exactly.

I've not been to NYC in several years now. Last time was in Lower Manhattan where our offices were located. Was just absolutely disgusting with all the garbage, etc. Glad it was in January and not July
 
That_Guy said:
Most of western Europe have some form of socialism, major or minor. From state owned institutions, social welfare and safety nets, to universal healthcare, cheap housing due to direct government involvement...etc.
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High(er) taxes to cover social WELFARE programs is not socialism. The Nordic countries repeatedly stated they are capitalist countries.

That_Guy said:
Venezuela has had sanctions placed on it, ruining it's economy. Sanctions tend to do that to any economy, socialist or capitalist.
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There are/were plenty of countries who can/have defied US sanctions and dealt with Venezuela. Same with Cuba. One of those countries is Canada. :LOL:

That_Guy said:
Uh no.

seriously, this proves that you have no idea what you're talking about when it comes to politics.

Its literally you who's doing this, not me.

I'm not engaging in word play, you are by saying one ideology is the exact same as another.

They are not the same.
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I probably understand ideologies better than you do.
 
sambody said:
It is not xenophia, it is just hard-nosed realpolitik. He is not mainstream, not just because of his ethnicity and religion, but also because of his ideological leanings and his lack of serious work experience that would prepare him to serve in the office of Mayor of NYC. He is just not going to be able to get enough votes from moderate voters who don't care about ideology and just want the city to be run properly, especially after the disaster of the last Dem mayor. No one in poliitics wants to back a loser.
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He’s moving the Overton window and enough of the public responded, or else he wouldn’t have won the primary. We will have to see in November if it’s enough of the public to win him the election.

Even Tucker Carlson pointed to the cost of living as the core issue in young people’s minds, more than any other.

The xenophobic rhetoric is also a real factor. Only the Republican, Sliwa, said to focus on his policies, not his faith or ethnicity.
 
Great leadership by Mamdani to meet detractors one on one. He should also do more interviews on Fox, regardless of its bias. He is in a Trump like situation right now where any publicity is helpful.

www.politico.com

Mamdani turns on the charm, meets his critics head on

The Dem nominee for NYC confronts skeptics in a spree of closed-door meetings.
www.politico.com www.politico.com

You can despise the Orange fascist and you would be correct, but there is no denying Trump's media savvy and his repeated victories over them
 
FuturePAF said:
He’s moving the Overton window and enough of the public responded, or else he wouldn’t have won the primary. We will have to see in November if it’s enough of the public to win him the election.

Even Tucker Carlson pointed to the cost of living as the core issue in young people’s minds, more than any other.

The xenophobic rhetoric is also a real factor. Only the Republican, Sliwa, said to focus on his policies, not his faith or ethnicity.
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The xenophobic rhetoric is conveniently weaponised by the American deep state when they want to character assassinate someone's public approval on policies they don't like.

In this case, Mamdani's crime was not being Indian, it was being anti-Israel. Hence the xenophobic greenlight was given.

This is the same that happens when the USA needs to justify supporting a war, suddenly they shift from a politically correct anti-racist society to a tacit approval to weaponise racism.

At least this is how I view it as a non-American.
 
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