Chuck Schumer scored a massive victory over the republicans by *checks notes* making them rename their bill
This is about corporate money, not policy. They guy refused corporate funding. So now you’re talking about a new generation of politician that can’t be bought. Is it any mystery that a person earns millions as a senator or house member?
Senators only make 174k. I say only because they all end up millionaires. How does that add up?
They want to keep getting paid, this guy throws a wrench into that system.
Refusing corporate money IS a policy.
If you refuse corporate money, your policies will stop being corporate policies (otherwise there is no point in not taking the money). This is also why the billionaires and their prostitutes in the political sphere are so scared.
Principally someone who makes 174k can definitely safe up enough money to become a millionaire over a period of for instance 20 years.
You had me at “throwing wrenches”
Well…if you can dodge a wrench!
Now that a nominee isn’t a centrist, centrists have dropped the “blue no matter who” facade to demonstrate that “party unity my ass” is what they always were.
And they have the audacity to scold us for abstaining from voting for genocide enablers. Vote Blue No Matter Who unless they promise solutions for the working class at the expense of landlords and CEOs I guess.
Yeah this is getting thrown in the face of any dem who gets pissed when i don’t vote for gavin newsome or pete buttigeg, or whatever odious republican the dems run in 2028.
Appealing to the non-existant moderate republicans is working well, isn’t it.
Well, it keeps the socialisms away.
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I’m not a usaian so I might be missing something but isn’t the most radical thing this guy has said something like: “I think people who have literally too much money to spend should have too much money to spend (smaller) so we can feed people and give them medical care”?
Does the mayor of new york even have the power to move on that? I would’ve assumed they like direct bureaucracy providing infrastructure and chair council meetings and shit.
It’s pretty cringe to see handwringing over this guy make it all the way over the Pacific. He’s a mayoral candidate, for people outside his council area or whatever isn’t this a huge nothingburger?
He is wants to introduce state ran grocery stores with lower prices than chain stores, freeze rents for some people, and give people free childcare. So like basic human empathy stuff. Its still treating the symptoms of capitalism but its treating them as directly and effectively as possible. His platform isn’t that radical, but any concessions to the working class that doesn’t make someone a buck will always be faced with hard opposition by those who benefit from the status quo.
I’m not an American, but I would imagine him treating the symptoms of capitalism is the only real power he has. It’s not like he has the ability to change State or Federal law if elected.
If people see his policies succeed it is very likely that not only Zohran might very quickly find himself in higher positions where he has authority and influence to change national law, but also the very democrats who claim such fundamental change is impossible might find themselves replaced by people who are actually willing to work for the people.
So a lot is riding on Zohran’s failure.
You’d be correct. He is doing a good thing and I didn’t mean to come off as critical if I did.
I didn’t mean to sound critical either, just adding context.
Yeah hes running for mayor, not emperor. It’s just to say he isn’t doing anything too radical and hes still getting this much hate.
They are terrified that people with an actual progressive agenda could spread in the party. If you’re familiar with the Labour Party during Corbyn there was open contempt for their own progressive membership from the long standing party insiders. Getting rid of those members was described as ‘shaking off fleas’.
But I don’t think the main reason he is being frozen out is his progressive policy platform, but that he doesn’t parrot the right pablum about how Israel has the right to defend itself as the answer to any atrocity. Corbyn was also tarred as an antisemite, but that was more of a pretext rather than the actual reason. In this case I think the lack of bootlicking for Israel is the core of the issue.
He won’t have the support and political capital to pass most of his agenda but the opposition fears the groundswell of support for his policies and want to delegitimize it before it grows.
The establishment is worried that his success will spark a wave of actual progressive candidates instead of do-nothings who talk a weak opposition game and then cave under the slightest pressure.
It was extremely funny to watch the usa Democrats go from “trump is literally a fascist he will destroy America” to “welp, vote in four years folks. Follow evil directions until then”.
Unless there’s weapons to sell to a genocidal regime.
Centrists will never back down on that one.
The NYC mayor is pretty powerful in terms of both budget and political sway: https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-23626980
Out of curiosity, what is stopping a politician from accepting copious amounts of lobbying “donations” then just saying “thanks for the money, dickheads” and making laws against the corp?
If one can do that, I might get into politics.
they won’t get the donations for the next campaign, that’s what. all that money will go to their opponent and the companies will probably take out a PAC to run ads against them.
politicians aren’t self-sacrificial noble people either. they are in it for the money and power, and for the huge benefits they will get post-political career by coming lobbyists themselves.
I don’t think there’s anything stopping that, except they probably wouldn’t give copious amounts right away. Give you a little, see if you dance for them, and then if your did, more money. Can’t give you the gravy train early, you might do what you’re planning on doing, even!
Of course it was. If the party wasn’t promoting garbage candidates, they wouldn’t need to rely on such a thing to try to take your vote for granted because people would happily vote for candidates they think will actually help them.
Always vote blue so, Maintain the status quo!
