If you don’t support Mamdani, you should be primaried. Simple as that.
tensinahnd on
Like 95% of congress deserve to be primaried.
keytotheboard on
“Far-left”, duck CNN!
This is the type of mainstream propaganda that has completely destroyed an integrity of news agencies. While the far-right has taken over and enacts actual fascist agendas with the help of billionaires, the big medias agencies like CNN start calling people who identify as “democratic socialists” as “far-left”. The false equivalence is sickening.
There’s very little actual radicalism in the left of America. Utilizing democracy to advocate for BASIC social policy, like healthcare for all (something most other major countries have), is not “far” anything.
Meanwhile, those on the right have attempted to assassinate the president multiple times. HAVE successfully assassinated Democrat leaders and their families, along with some more failed attempts. Actively build military and policing to forcibly enact their dehumanizing agendas, while also ignoring court orders to stop. While wearing masks and failing to identify, etc, etc.
KingThar on
Primaries are how we exercise democracy. It makes it harder for lobbies to get settled in. More places the lobby has to diffuse money too. Some of Jeffries conservative neoliberal friends hate them
HydroBear on
As a matter of policy, I don’t agree with everything Mamdani says or stands for, but as a matter of shifting narratives and empowering the majority of Americans, outside of AOC and Bernie he’s the only one to do it with any clout.
If the democratic establishment would rather implode than take on Trump over Mamdani they need to be voted out with great prejudice.
It’s insane that they’re letting these assholes speedrun fascism because they’re offended by someone who speaks common sense within their OWN PARTY.
BlooregardQKazoo on
DO IT.
My upstate Congressman is Paul Tonko. I have never heard anyone say a bad word about the man. I once had someone that used to work for him tell me how they had to watch him like a hawk when they came back to NY because if they looked away they’d lose track of him and later find him at a local event talking to the people. By all accounts he is a *fantastic* representative of our district.
That said, I want to see him primaried. He’s part of the old guard that needs to go. We badly need new, younger blood that recognizes the unique challenges posed by MAGA that didn’t exist 20 years ago.
vagabending on
This is good. And they’re not far left. They’re European center lol.
williamgman on
CNN being CNN. Ever since they hired that new CEO.
bnh1978 on
do it. please.
Ok-disaster2022 on
Far left how? Just because moderates are shifting far right doesn’t make any American progressive far left. If anything it makes them actually center left.
greenway-blackington on
Do it!!!
Twheezy2024 on
Do it!!!
of_no_real_opinion on
Pretty sure most dem voters want the party primaried
CompleteBuilding1156 on
Life-long, straight-ticket Democratic voter here. I guess wanting candidates who aren’t useless, corporate-owned losers makes me „far left.“
P.S. Liberals need to wake up and realize that corporate-owned media entities like CNN and the NYT are not their side. You can be informed without giving these Republican psy-ops your attention.
17syllables on
“We need a manhattan project to find the left’s answer to Joe Rogan! Also, we’re existentially terrified of the mildest social democrats endorsed by podcasters like Nick Mullen!”
Yeah, primary them all.
Feral_galaxies on
Let’s fucking go!
DisMFer on
Cool, do it. MAGA did this exact thing. There’s a reason that the Republicans have the younger more active and energetic party (not counting the corpse they have as president). After they were crushed two elections in a row by someone their base thought should have been barred from ever running because he was black they primaried everyone who wasn’t the most extreme version of the party.
Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t but even when it didn’t work it scared the incumbents so much they bowed to the right to avoid having it happen again. A big issue with the left is that everyone recognizes we have too many old out-of-touch politicians unable to respond to their base but so few people actually get involved in politics at all and fewer vote.
Every seat should be primaried. Run every Millennial and Gen Z person you can find and convince to run for something. Even if it’s just the head of the school board. Things will never change if the only thing people do is sit around and complain on social media and occasionally go to a protest with a goofy sign and a bad attitude.
Yes there will be push back and yes the people in those positions will fight like hell to keep their cushy 6 figure jobs where they get to eat steak and work less than 100 days a year, but they’re unpopular enough that they’ll likely lose as often as they win and those who win will be aware that they can’t get by on just sitting around and coasting on name recognition and local papers endorsing them.
at_least_u_tried on
good.
Also Mamdani isn’t “far-left” but okay.
alabasterskim on
City Councilwoman Sandy Nurse is within his district. She should run. She’s a progressive endorsed in her council runs by AOC & Bernie, among others.
volanger on
Fuck yes!!! Get rid of them and send a message to the DNC. David Hogg was right. If you aren’t fighting for us, then get out of our way.
berrikerri on
Good 🙌
Cute-Ad-5142 on
No, it’s just left. Liberalism is a right wing ideology.
AlexPriceTag on
How dare he want things to be more democratic!
lethalsid on
Mamdani is literally the only good thing I see coming out of the US..
BabyYodaX on
„far left“ lmao
StarkyPants555 on
Do it!
defaultusername-17 on
it’s ironic that the same sort of policies that FDR ran on are now considered „far left“.
fuck this timeline.
Pollia on
Pelosi has practically begged anyone to challenge her in a primary and she still easily coasts to a victory every time.
Like the party itself generally doesn’t care if you try to primary someone in safe democratic districts. If they wanna try to primary Jeffries, go for it!
The problem always comes down to primarying people in deeply purple or even red districts with a dem rep. Primarying them is super counterproductive unless there’s a specific extenuating circumstance around it. Like all the weirdos who kept wanting to primary manchin when he was in the Senate.
DeathByGoldfish on
Good. We need accountability on the left. If that means accountability through fear of being primaried, well, I’ll take it. Then we can begin to fight for accountability on the right.
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It’s what they deserve.
If you don’t support Mamdani, you should be primaried. Simple as that.
Like 95% of congress deserve to be primaried.
“Far-left”, duck CNN!
This is the type of mainstream propaganda that has completely destroyed an integrity of news agencies. While the far-right has taken over and enacts actual fascist agendas with the help of billionaires, the big medias agencies like CNN start calling people who identify as “democratic socialists” as “far-left”. The false equivalence is sickening.
There’s very little actual radicalism in the left of America. Utilizing democracy to advocate for BASIC social policy, like healthcare for all (something most other major countries have), is not “far” anything.
Meanwhile, those on the right have attempted to assassinate the president multiple times. HAVE successfully assassinated Democrat leaders and their families, along with some more failed attempts. Actively build military and policing to forcibly enact their dehumanizing agendas, while also ignoring court orders to stop. While wearing masks and failing to identify, etc, etc.
Primaries are how we exercise democracy. It makes it harder for lobbies to get settled in. More places the lobby has to diffuse money too. Some of Jeffries conservative neoliberal friends hate them
As a matter of policy, I don’t agree with everything Mamdani says or stands for, but as a matter of shifting narratives and empowering the majority of Americans, outside of AOC and Bernie he’s the only one to do it with any clout.
If the democratic establishment would rather implode than take on Trump over Mamdani they need to be voted out with great prejudice.
It’s insane that they’re letting these assholes speedrun fascism because they’re offended by someone who speaks common sense within their OWN PARTY.
DO IT.
My upstate Congressman is Paul Tonko. I have never heard anyone say a bad word about the man. I once had someone that used to work for him tell me how they had to watch him like a hawk when they came back to NY because if they looked away they’d lose track of him and later find him at a local event talking to the people. By all accounts he is a *fantastic* representative of our district.
That said, I want to see him primaried. He’s part of the old guard that needs to go. We badly need new, younger blood that recognizes the unique challenges posed by MAGA that didn’t exist 20 years ago.
This is good. And they’re not far left. They’re European center lol.
CNN being CNN. Ever since they hired that new CEO.
do it. please.
Far left how? Just because moderates are shifting far right doesn’t make any American progressive far left. If anything it makes them actually center left.
Do it!!!
Do it!!!
Pretty sure most dem voters want the party primaried
Life-long, straight-ticket Democratic voter here. I guess wanting candidates who aren’t useless, corporate-owned losers makes me „far left.“
P.S. Liberals need to wake up and realize that corporate-owned media entities like CNN and the NYT are not their side. You can be informed without giving these Republican psy-ops your attention.
“We need a manhattan project to find the left’s answer to Joe Rogan! Also, we’re existentially terrified of the mildest social democrats endorsed by podcasters like Nick Mullen!”
Yeah, primary them all.
Let’s fucking go!
Cool, do it. MAGA did this exact thing. There’s a reason that the Republicans have the younger more active and energetic party (not counting the corpse they have as president). After they were crushed two elections in a row by someone their base thought should have been barred from ever running because he was black they primaried everyone who wasn’t the most extreme version of the party.
Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t but even when it didn’t work it scared the incumbents so much they bowed to the right to avoid having it happen again. A big issue with the left is that everyone recognizes we have too many old out-of-touch politicians unable to respond to their base but so few people actually get involved in politics at all and fewer vote.
Every seat should be primaried. Run every Millennial and Gen Z person you can find and convince to run for something. Even if it’s just the head of the school board. Things will never change if the only thing people do is sit around and complain on social media and occasionally go to a protest with a goofy sign and a bad attitude.
Yes there will be push back and yes the people in those positions will fight like hell to keep their cushy 6 figure jobs where they get to eat steak and work less than 100 days a year, but they’re unpopular enough that they’ll likely lose as often as they win and those who win will be aware that they can’t get by on just sitting around and coasting on name recognition and local papers endorsing them.
good.
Also Mamdani isn’t “far-left” but okay.
City Councilwoman Sandy Nurse is within his district. She should run. She’s a progressive endorsed in her council runs by AOC & Bernie, among others.
Fuck yes!!! Get rid of them and send a message to the DNC. David Hogg was right. If you aren’t fighting for us, then get out of our way.
Good 🙌
No, it’s just left. Liberalism is a right wing ideology.
How dare he want things to be more democratic!
Mamdani is literally the only good thing I see coming out of the US..
„far left“ lmao
Do it!
it’s ironic that the same sort of policies that FDR ran on are now considered „far left“.
fuck this timeline.
Pelosi has practically begged anyone to challenge her in a primary and she still easily coasts to a victory every time.
Like the party itself generally doesn’t care if you try to primary someone in safe democratic districts. If they wanna try to primary Jeffries, go for it!
The problem always comes down to primarying people in deeply purple or even red districts with a dem rep. Primarying them is super counterproductive unless there’s a specific extenuating circumstance around it. Like all the weirdos who kept wanting to primary manchin when he was in the Senate.
Good. We need accountability on the left. If that means accountability through fear of being primaried, well, I’ll take it. Then we can begin to fight for accountability on the right.