@DarkWilbo As Rumsfeld famously said -
"You go to Class War with the working class you have, not the working class you might want or wish to have at a later time."
I watched this debate because I am a very very sick person but it’s maybe the first time I can recall a debate where the grassroots candidate hit the corporate one over and over again on the fact that they are being literally bribed to support bad things.
Stevens had absolutely no counter to this and it’s wild that you don’t see insurgent candidates use this low hanging fruit far more often. Everyone from AOC to Bernie to Mamdani talks about corruption but they so rarely talk about it with directly naming who is being bought with such clarity.
I think people are absolutely desperate to see this kind of aggressive attack against people who hold the public trust being bought off completely by dark money. Abdul made it clear that Stevens is not only his enemy but an enemy of the working class and I wish / hope more politicians stop playing nice with these monsters and name this evil shit for what it is.
this is why we need to get rid of loony far-left DSA members like Cory Booker and center the party around budget-conscious moderates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
@ColeSandick I wouldnt put money towards it, but ... what if he decides to hang on or run as an indepdenant? Conventional wisdom in these parts is that another democrat with a progressive platform would pick up his energy but... I really dunno. He could throw it hard
@Centrist_Elite@hecubian_devil You are both right, but imo it's still more of a net headwind in the long term overall.
In the short term (the energetic phase of an insurrectionary populist moment) the case can be made for someone like Trump or Platner. And there's also imo a way to split the difference
Elon with DOGE didn’t make government more efficient, he mostly just created chaos and branding around “efficiency.” If Zohran can make NYC government function better, faster, and cheaper at scale, it would challenge the idea that only austerity politics can reform government.
@sovietsoleri Some eurotrance I still go back to
Fragma - Time and Time Again
Solarstone - Like a Waterfall
anthem trance
Salt Tank - Eugina
Solarstone - Solarcoaster
Left wingers broadly all have similar economic views. Education varies their social views.
Right wingers by contrast broadly all have similar cultural views. Education varies their economic views.
Fascinating via @benwansell