New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) said Saturday that Democrats have lost sight of the important economic issues facing working-class Americans as the party works to rebuild itself after a devastating loss in the 2024 presidential election.
“The party, as a whole, has lost its focus on working people,” Mamdani said in an interview with MS Now.
“People want to know: What are you going to do for rent? What are you going to do for housing? What are you going to do for gas? What are you going to do for groceries? We have to have answers to that.”
Issues like housing affordability, the cost of healthcare and rising gas prices should be at the forefront of the party’s focus, according to Mamdani, rather than ideological battles that distract from what matters to most Americans.
No shit, it’s always about the donors. But pay attention, how did we get Mamdani? NYC has one of the most generous donation matching programs. For mayor a donation gets matched 8 to 1. Donation matching was in the For The People Act.
I wish he would say the quiet part out loud:
They have been compromised and infected by money. The only solution is to make bribery illegal again.
Bribery is now free speech
But that would be antisemitic.
Bribery? You mean capitalism?
Well he’s not wrong
I’d love to see some blue governors balancing their budgets. It’s a good look.
Did it ever actually have a true genuine focus on working people?
Absolutely FDR
That’s when the Democrats had a populist message and actually helped the working class
It also resulted in them controlling like 80% of Congress
It also probably stopped America from falling to a revolution (even if it provoked the business plot, but that went nowhere luckily)
Sure seems like the businesses have won to me
In the long run they did take back control, but the The Business Plot did happen for a reason, capital hated FDR
Just more lip service from the fake leftist that is mamdani.
All downvotes of this comment will be from simping mamdanistans
Isn’t he doing more for leftism than you are?
What is he doing, exactly, if anything at all?
A non-zero amount, which is more than can be said about people whining toothlessly on the internet
Name one thing he’s done.
Fine, he balanced the NYC budget. This is the part where you either admit you’re wrong, call that fake news, or pretend that it doesn’t count for some reason. I can tell from your previous posts that the first isn’t going to happen so which of the other two options are you going to pick?
Explain what you mean by “balancing the NYC budget” (i.e. how, elaborate). A source would be cool, while you’re at it.
FYI, if you’ve read my posts, you’d know I don’t retort w “fake news” as a counterargument.
Democrats have given up on the working class in favor of identity politics. They can’t see through any other lens except the one that sees white people as oppressors and every other group as deserving of everything we can give them to make up for this “injustice”. A good example is trans rights in sports. It seems fairly obvious to me that a trans woman should not be able to compete in women’s sports simply because of the biological advantage of having a male body. Yet democrats blindly insist that trans women have a right to do anything an actual female can do. And liberals are also condescending towards anyone who disagrees with their views. Rather than thinking ‘that’s actually a valid point I should consider’ it’s always ‘you’ll eventually come around to seeing things the right way, like I do’.
Wow, you just have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about do you? Is vomiting fox news talking points all that Republicans can do nowadays? Do better.
Science doesn’t support your belief that trans women have physical advantages. Do you understand the role that hormones have and the effects on the body?
Whether the comment you responded to is based in reality or not, you’re playing into the described perception by responding this way. The best response to someone who clearly doesn’t give a shit about trans people, and won’t no matter what you say, is something like:
Trans people make up >1% of the population, trans athletes even less so. Let’s focus on issues that impact all of us like healthcare and income inequality.
Don’t go along with the culture war bullshit. That’s the only strategy they have. Talk about real solutions to real problems and you will win others over. Probably not the person you are talking to, but that rarely happens anyway. Others listening or reading will take notice. That’s exactly what people like Bernie and Mamdani do. It’s why people listen to them. They don’t get sucked into some pointless debate about hormone levels with people who are only bringing it up to distract from real problems.
“I believe Democrats believe exactly what Fox News says they believe” would have been a more succinct, more honest post.
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A good example is trans rights in sports. It seems fairly obvious to me…
While your larger point is worthwhile, this part is indistinguishable from the positions where it “seemed obvious” that africans not as smart as europeans, or that women were not as mature as men, or that the poor were less deserving of the rich.
Trans women who go through HRT are essentially indisinqyusihable in ability from Cis women. There may be a reasonable bar in some sports for trans girls who are old enough to have undergone male puberty and aren’t on HRT or puberty blockers, but blanket bans aren’t at all supported by science.
Personally, my response is “these are children.” Yes, our daughters should be free from being assaulted by fully mature men. But so should our sons.
I agreed with the post until there might be a reasonable bar part. When a person switches hormones the body follows. The whole concern about trans folks is also truly rooted in bigotry, not sportsmanship. Let’s not forget that part.
What I mean when I say ‘it seems obvious to me’ is that based on the results of reputable scientific investigation it seems clear that trans women retain some degree of biological advantage over people born female.
Which studies? Done with what methodology? And what are the rebuttals against their claims? Did the study differentiate trans women who are not on HRT, newly on HRT, and on HRT past the several year adjustment period? Same question, for age at which HRT or puberty blockers began. And does the reported difference fall outside the expected range for feminine athletes? Did the study include a group of cis boys or cis men as contrast? Were trans boys and trans men also included to show the presumable equivalent disadvantage?
There have been some infamous studies recently done by transphobes and cited as evidence of their bigoted viewpoint. Science thankfully doesn’t itself care about politics and these studies will either be refuted or confirmed as more science is done.
And as I alluded to before, even if merely having been assigned male at birth gave some advantage in competitive sport, that advantage is entirely irrelevant to scholastic activities and only relevant to professional conpetitions if it puts trans women substantially outside the range of expected competitors.
I believe the condescension you mentioned is real, but it’s magnified tenfold because we’re all trapped in media echo chambers. Most normal people aren’t obsessing over these niche topics, but the media and political machines weaponize them to keep us divided.
It perfectly exposes the hypocrisy on free speech on both sides. The left’s online gatekeepers treat disagreement as a moral failing, effectively chilling free speech through social conformity. On the flip side, the right screams about censorship while using state power to ban books, police classroom speech and insist that Christianity is the only acceptable religion. Both parties rely on these culture wars to control what we can say and think, all while abandoning any real, material help for the working class.
Republicans have just done a better job of identifying the issues facing everyday people and campaigning on them, but they rarely have a plan to actually fix them. Spencer Pratt’s website for LA mayor is a great example of this. While he highlights the exact issues hurting regular people, there is zero substance or realistic plan on how any of it actually gets done.
It’s sad you got so downvoted and only had one reasonable reply. Trans people should be free to do what they want of course but I find it hard to disagree with you in that they would have a biological advantage in certain sports. But I’m sure it can work both ways, a trans man could have a biological advantage in other areas. But like the other person said, no one really cares about those things except the media.
In Alabama, when they were considering bans on youth transgender therapy, one of the GOP senators made them do a study. It turned out that over the past decade there were, on average, something like 5 minors undergoing any kind of gender-affirming treatment. 5. In the whole state of Alabama. They decided it wasn’t worth implementing a whole government oversight system to oppress that few people.
Now think about how many of the people, under 18, are both self-aware enough to realize they’re trans-fem (because no one raises a fuss about trans-masc athletes) and super excited about competing in women’s sports. We are talking about a handful of people across the whole country.
And that’s what makes them such a great wedge issue for the right. Essentially no one has personally encountered a transgender youth athlete, so they can make up whatever stories they like, based on “sounds reasonable.”
Meanwhile, competitive sport is essentially all about rewarding genetic freaks. People with some gene mutation that lets their muscles work faster, lets their blood carry more oxygen, lets the build mass faster. If you worry about the biological advantage that a chemically suppressed hormone might have, you’re starting down a path where you have to police what other biological traits might give someone advantage. It’ll be “too tall to compete in basketball.”
Reality is non consistent with your claims of biological advantage.
