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Anybody who expects a100% perfect politician is a fool
Anyone who expects a system based on collaboration and compromise to bend 100% to their will was a fucking miserable entitled jackass to play with as kids.
Right. More than 0% would be nice, though.
Agreed but the top comment of this reply chain is so disingenuous. It's like someone posting "Hey guys, its my birthday!", then they pop in to be contrarian and say "don't forget you are going to die someday."
I don't get why they left a comment like this. Are they upset Mamdani won? If they actually like Mamdani they could have said "I hope the American people continue to support people like Mamdani if or when it comes out that they aren't some perfect superhero, and are just human like all of us".
Specifically the comment focuses on the left and attacks them as being non-compromising, and acts like this is a fact, when the left has shown its self to be quite compromising time and time again.
Remember its not left vs right, but top vs bottom and the only attacks done should be on the top. Anything else is divisive and helps the billionaires stay in power.
Already happening. He has a good working relationship with governor Hochul and endorses her above a DSA candidate.
But she put out her neck for him and made things possible. If he did not reciprocate nobody in Albany would cooperate with him any more.
Prolly depends on where they are from, I'm from SoCal and was convinced that New York was a city state until I was like 11. I could see other people having the same thought for even longer if they aren't told explicitly like how my history and geography classes did, looking at you Utah and your idiotic claim that you guys colonized San Bernardino, you cunts.
It's not entirely wrong to think of nyc that way. It's not strictly true, but practically the city dictates much of the state's politics. It's similar with Chicago and Illinois.
I’m Canadian, so I didn’t learn anything about new York at all.
Legitimately there is a problem with stupidity on Lemmy. I don't know if it's because the average user is younger than other sites or what, but I have seen the absolute dumbest, most blatantly wrong shit get upvoted all over the place and there are a number of people who will get into arguments over obvious misreadings of articles.
There's no DSA candidate in the primary. Hochul was running against another centrist (who has since withdrawn due to no chance of winning).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_New_York_gubernatorial_election
edit: can the downvoter please name the DSA candidate in the 2026 NY gubernatorial election, it should be pretty easy to find since I linked the article if they exist
You are correct and I was misinformed, but not by much.
Andrew Delgados running mate India Walton is a DSA member who Mamdani supported earlier. And the DSA is mostly supporting Delgado over Hochul, which has garnered a lot of DSA criticism for Mamdani backing Hochul.
https://www.cityandstateny.com/politics/2026/02/socialists-not-thrilled-mamdanis-guv-endorsement-even-zohran-gets-it-wrong-sometimes/411228/
https://www.leftvoice.org/the-problem-with-municipal-socialism-a-response-to-liza-featherstone/
"The Left needs to fall in love; The Right simply falls in line."
This is not about just one political opinion it something common in all political opinions.
what? there is many good movies and TV-shows that correctly reflect (sometimes even make feel) politics
the politically correct thing is very often not the morally correct thing and it sucks. it's the reason i am not in politics and also not in prison (i think i would probably set something on fire)
Ok we do have to compromise, but the compromises are what got us into this mess in the first place. Like you can't compromise with capitalism because the compromise was either genocide really fast or slower genocide. Sometimes the compromise will get you nowhere.
Ok well let's take healthcare for example. If you compromise with capitalism, you can't eliminate insurance companies. Even tho socialized medicine has proven to be a better model for decades, compromise with capitalism got us Obamacare which is technically better than the previous model but it didn't make anything cheaper and it was prone to subsequent administrations gutting it.
Or compromising with the military industrial complex, means we still build weapons and fight wars and fund genocides. What exactly can the compromise be?
You can go through multiple industries and you'll find that as soon as you say "someone still needs to profit" then the game is over. Whatever you were trying to fix suddenly becomes secondary to profit.
Hey man you can try to compromise withthis system your whole life, it's not going to get better.
Once you realize that, the next conclusion is obvious.
Well one of the ways we can liberate our minds is to get off mainstream social media. So kudos to us for doing that.
I think the next steps is to create the conditions for revolution to be successful. The no 1 thing I think is to BUILD COMMUNITY. I have been volunteering at free clinics for the last few years. I try to have gatherings when I can. Then The next most important thing is to organize, so join an organization that offers something that fits. I recently was offered a job at a coop. I've attended some DSA events, trying to figure out a way to fit more of that in my life. The next most important thing is to build your independence from big tech. So get off their services as much as you can.
You're right, were not ready to take to the streets, even tho that is the real thing that needs to happen. So we as individuals can help build our independence, organize and believe in community. We can get there, it'll take a long time, but just because it seems like a big task doesn't mean we can't get there eventually.
I think that's probably the right course. We are forced to work with what we got and you can't abandon the people that are here. But I think it's important to be mindful that compromising will only get you so far. It will never take you all the way.