• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    The reason they’re so scared is the current DNC chair legitimately wants someone like Mamdani for the next presidential candidate.

    If Mamdani wins, that’s enough time for voters nationwide to see socialism works before midterms and for that to domino to the presidential election.

    I’ve been more optimistic about the party in the last 10 months than even 08 in the run up to Obama. The billionaires are fucking scared, and it’s gonna make the neoliberals retire like Pelosi or run to Maga like Cuomo.

    Edit:

    Read/watch the full interview, but this was from almost 6 months ago:

    Well, first, it was a brilliant campaign. And there’s a lot of lessons.

    One is, he campaigned for something. And this is a critical piece. We can’t just be in a perpetual state of resisting Donald Trump. Of course, we have to resist Donald Trump. There’s no doubt about it for all the reasons we just talked about. But we also have to give people a sense of what we’re for, what the Democratic Party is fighting for, and what we would do if they put us back in power.

    And that’s really critical. And I think that’s one of the lessons from Mamdani’s campaign, is that he focused on affordability. He focused on a message that was resonant with voters, and he campaigned for something, not against other people or against other things. He campaigned on a vision of how he was going to make New York City a better place to live.

    I think that’s one of the lessons. The other lessons, of course, is the tactics he used to get his message out, both a very aggressive in-person campaigning, meeting voters where they’re at, and then also in those digital spaces, using very creative messaging to cut through the noise and to get to voters in an inexpensive but authentic way.

    There’s a lot to learn from that campaign, and I’m excited to learn more.

    https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/dnc-chair-on-the-path-to-winning-back-voters-and-lessons-democrats-can-learn-from-mamdani

    Not to mention he’s been supporting Omar Fateh for over a year:

    https://www.facebook.com/omarfatehmn/videos/dfl-chair-omar-fateh-is-the-best-candidate-to-help-us-win-statewide/320417132678100/

    Please, dont fall for the billionaire propaganda, they’re desperate for people to check out of politics, we need to pay attention now more than ever.

    Voter apathy is the only way the oligarchs can claw back the party, and they’ll do anything to manifest that.

    Including social media accounts that routinely deny reality and insist the only thing we can do is hand the party back to the oligarchs.

    Don’t trust anyone who acts like voting in the Dem.primary obligates a general vote.

    Even if you have no intention of voting D, vote in the Dem primary and pull the party as left as you can.

    There’s literally no valid reason not to.