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[–] Montreal_Metro@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because democrats are conservatives are republicans are stupider Nazis.

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

I sorta like describing democrats as stupid Nazis.

[–] laranis@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

Money. Stop asking stupid questions.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] onslaught545@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nah, they supported Obama and Harris.

It's because he threatens their corporate owners.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Notice anything about the POC they do back?

[–] WatDabney@sopuli.xyz 61 points 2 days ago

Because he's a leftist who's apparently sincerely promising to actually work for the benefit of ordinary people and appears ready to actually do that if he wins.

Democrats like to pretend that they're all of those things too, but really all they ever try to be is somewhat less awful than Republicans, which is an easy enough task that they can generally succeed.

But if they end up being compared with someone like Mamdani, they're going to be revealed for the complacent, corrupt conservatives they actually are.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

Because they're a bunch of fucking shills

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (2 children)

1: They have a whole bunch of voter base analysis experts who will stick tooth and nail to the theory that if they go too far left they'll alienate part of their voter base and lose votes, even though it has been demonstrated again and again that trying to maintain the status quo is a failure that lead to Trump's election to begin with and so is "playing the center" against an increasingly radical right.

2: They're also owned by the Corporations even if they're not as open about it like the Republicans are and do not want to actually fix any of the issues the people actually want fixed. It feels like they're just waiting for Trump to die, MAGA to collapse and them to win the next elections without ever making a single effort to do anything for the people.

[–] boaratio@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I can't upvote this comment hard enough.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The influx of monied interests that fled the GOP during the first Trump term are largely to blame, IMO. They are rotting the Democratic Party from the inside, pushing to keep the failed economic policies of the Reagan-era, and the DNC have gotten fat and lazy feeding off their teet.

It is embarrassing to think that the most progressive policy that the US Congress was able to pass this millennium was the ACA back in ‘09.

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The corporate rot of the Democratic party and corruption by monied interests has been around since at least the Clinton era, and that was in response to Reagan. It all comes back to Ronald fucking Reagan.

[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Absolutely agree that the rot was present all the way back then, my contention is more that the influx of Never-Trumper, temporarily embarrassed Republican monied interests into the modern Democratic Party was the final straw that broke the camel’s back.

I would go so far as to state that the GOP Fiscal Policy of the ‘90s would align with the current DNC platform, that is how far right the Overton Window has shifted in my lifetime.

[–] Ileftreddit@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Democrats have their fingers in their ears and their eyes closed. Mamdani isn’t just going to win, he’s going to start a wave of Dem Soc candidates across the country

[–] Fredselfish@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Man I hope that true but I feel they will ask Trump for help before they ever let him win.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Cuomo has already asked Trump for help beating Mamdani

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 5 points 1 day ago

Remember this next time they tell you to "vote Blue no matter who."

[–] ALLGLORYTOHYPNOTOAD@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

They are beholden to their capitalist masters. Democratic leadership only goes as far left as the donor class will allow. Mamdani scares the wealthy, so the Democratic leadership doesn’t want him to succeed.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 days ago

Here are the people who have endorsed him from his page:

https://www.zohranfornyc.com/endorsements

Then there's organized labor. Most of the city's major labor unions have already endorsed Mamdani. A total of 67 unions and political organizations, along with nine state senators, 17 assembly members and 16 council members, or roughly one-third of the City Council, have thrown their support behind him.

https://abc7ny.com/post/nyc-mayoral-race-zohran-mamdani-failing-secure-endorsement-top-democrats-like-kathy-hochul-hakeem-jeffries/17665962/

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 days ago

Because Democrats are one half of the one party state in America

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago

Because democrats are puppets paid for by the oligarchs to do nothing for political theater

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
[–] taulover@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 days ago

VoTe bLuE No mAtTeR WhO