An openly Democratic Socialist Candidate in the United States of America is now within striking distance of winning mayorship of the city that is the beating heart of American capitalism. In only 8 1/2 months of campaigning we have gone from 1% in the polls to now being the electoral favorite.
This is perhaps a long shot, but if you are reading this, we are still looking for people to work the phones for Zohran today and tomorrow! No requirement to live in NYC, just to have a US phone number. We have 9 different phonebanking times today and offer 27 second language options! We need all of the help we can get to win this, and every little bit helps. Please consider signing up for a shift here even if you can only make a few calls.
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I only have one real concern about Mamdani’s mayorship.
You know damn well that the porks will be conspiring to sabotage his term. False flags to artificially increase the crime rate, porks hypocritically using union tactics to band together and go on strike to achieve their demands (mass layoffs, organized wage cuts, organized rent hikes) if not flat out sic the CIA on Mamdani.
Does anyone know how Mamdani plans to defend against the inevitable bourgeoise temper tantrum if he wins?
If I were him, I would accept that I was at odds with the power structure, but rather than compromise or conform, i would just put everything on social media. Anything that can be justified as being made available for the public good in terms of trying to get things done, make these slimeballs fuck him over extremely publicly. Destroy the facade of democracy further.
That's all there really is to do, imo, but he could probably get it done.
I keep banging this drum, but one bonus of a possible Mamdani win is seeing the NYT beg and plead for people to “pwetty pwease vote republican! Maybe finawwy the normals in Real America^TM^ will like us and see we’re not so bad!”
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