I have been banging my fucking drum about #voting since forever.

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

I have been banging my fucking drum about #voting since forever. Nonvoters are just helping us slide right. #Vote!

My thesis is simple: follow the #Mamdani template

Take over the #Democrats from the left. Turn out in the #primaries. Get 50 Mamdanis. Then in the general #election push them over the finish line

Perhaps I'm too optimistic? It can't happen anywhere else except #NYC?

Well, take a look now...

" #Socialism's Positive Rating Tops 40% for First Time"

https://news.gallup.com/poll/714653/socialism-positive-rating-tops-first-time.aspx

[mmalc@mastodon.social]

@benroyce

Interestingly, Adam Kinzinger is similarly “optimistic”:

https://www.adamkinzinger.com/p/zohran-mamdani-is-the-future-of-the

[benroyce@mastodon.social]

@mmalc

good read! thank you

[slyborg@ohai.social]

@benroyce >Take over the #Democrats from the left.
100% this.

The objective of current Democratic establishment to keep their lucrative consulting and lobbying jobs and campaign cash flowing, and they will happily block and tackle for the other side in the name of "centrism" to do that.

They have to be replaced. The voting system we have isn't good, but it's the system we have and as the Tea Party demonstrated, it can still be used to completely transform a political party.