🚨 At the U20 Mayors Summit, Mamdani Says the Left Has Ceded “Quality of Life,” “Efficiency,” and “Fraud and Waste” to the Right
This was one of the more interesting arguments Zohran Mamdani made today at the U20 Mayors Summit, and a reminder that he can be genuinely sharp when he drops the “central casting” routine.
“In New York City, there are certain words that have taken on ideological associations.”
“Quality of life has come to be seen as somehow a right-wing concern. Efficiency… has been taken on as a right-wing concern, rooting out fraud and waste, a right-wing concern.”
Mamdani’s argument is that refusing to engage those issues actually helps the Right.
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’”
The harder question is how much of the broader Left is actually prepared to follow the advice.
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odysseus’s crew getting surly and restless as it becomes more and more clear theyre not gonna make it back to ithaca in time for the one day a year it’s legal for single people to have sex
This is how you deepen a culture! You invite people to engage with more of it — rather than be a smooth black box of efficient consumer delivery, you slow down, open the world up, and begin to build relationships with the material and human reality of it. Reforestation in action!
@Nicocantor1 If your broadcast qualifications were as scrutinized as much as VAR does these days, you’d be cleaning a toilet somewhere for a living. Tell your dad to come up for air every once in a while after slobbering all over it.
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ela merece muito
Nothing the Pope is saying is actually woke, by the way. It’s all in line with boilerplate Catholic Social Teaching that’s been in practice since at least the 19th century. American Christianity, including Catholicism, has just gone so completely off the rails it sounds radical.