Go read up on Eugene Debs to see a great example of how the capitalists have made an example of socialists historically.
America when the most milquetoast social democrat gets elected in a local election:
Just go check facebook under any remotely political post, there will be endless rabid reactionary and violent anti socialist comments. Thats where we are at in american consciousness. Its like impossible to even talk to conservative boomers because you have to hold their hands thru the simplest most basic of social and economic relations we LIVE WITH EVERYDAY that are seemingly obscured from them. To even get to the starting line you have to untangle so much incoherent nonsense and instinctual ideological jerking
or, you know, you could be strategic and stop making politics an identitarian issue to avoid such reactions. Mamdani won despite defining himself as a socialist, not because of it.
Absolutely unhinged take. Might as well have bleached his skin before he ran for office while he is at it.
his voter base is people of color, wtf are you talking about? That’s helping him.
He just represents novelty and anti-establishment values like talking about the problems of working class people, in the same way Trump does, but he does that without appealing to fear or hate. That’s it, that’s why he won. The rest is just ornamental. He defines himself socialist to get traction and participation among volunteers, but for the voter base, that’s not helping him.
Truly unhinged.
The only Democratic Socialist you need to be afraid of is the Semina (AZ) Type of Democrat that once elected turns out to be a big piece of shit.
Sinema.
