No other liberal news outlets are covering this.
“…don’t want that in my party…”
Is this guy the new owner or something? I’ve never heard of him.
“I just bought a bunch of Democrat senators. What can I do about all these pesky socialists in my party? They won’t accept any of my bribes.”
Non-Post link here:
https://www.newsday.com/long-island/politics/suozzi-mamdani-ucap9t7r
Ideally we should have four parties:
Progressive
Corporate Democrat
Corporate Republican
Batshit CrazyAs it stands now, the Batshit Crazies have taken over and the Progressives are disenfranchised.
Thanks. Most of the other news outlets are less sensational, focusing on his drawing parallels between Mamdani and Trump, as well as drawing lines between capitalism and socialism. He’s… not very progressive at all…
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/tom-suozzi-democratic-party-donald-trump/
Let’s make a deal, Tom. Get proportional representation, one of the variations of voting that fixes first past the post, legislate away citizens united, and have fair, publicly funded elections, and you can have the party you want.
Countries with PR are having the same problems with fascism that first-past-the-post systems have. Also, PR gives more, not less power, to opportunistic centrists, since they’re often needed to form a coalition, which gives them massive leverage. In countries with PR, the centrists are often in every government, as the governments alternate between center-right and center-left.
PR might seem fairer in principle, but the notion that it’s some kind of panacea is unfounded. Like term limits, the benefits are almost entirely theoretical. And in both cases, the “miracle cure” can lead to antidemocratic anomalous outcomes when someone figures out how to game the system. And every system can and will be gamed.
Vote blue no matter who, am I right?
In a general election, where the other possible office-winner is a literal fascist, yes.
How about you leave. Like, what are y’all even fucking doing anymore? You guys are more unpopular than you ever have been and it’s literally your own fault.
The DNC Dems are there to prevent a progressive party from forming. The DNC Dems are working together with the Reps to fight against the people of America for the rich oligarchs running the country.
We warned that this is what is going on before the last presidential election and before that. But people wouldn’t want to listen, instead defending “slow genocide” and “lesser of two evils” and other insane statements. Now they keep getting screwed as the DNC Dems understand that they will keep getting away with it.
They could become the traditional republicans with what their views are these days.
“Capitalism has raised more people out of poverty than any other system in the history of the world. Create more innovation. Socialism has failed everywhere,” Suozzi said in the interview, which he even posted to his social media accounts.
Oh? Like social security, medicare, medicaid, public schooling, and stimulus packages? All socialist policies that make America work. But no, it must be the billionaires and billion dollar corporations.
This country would have broken before World War 1 if not for socialist policies that were enacted to save it from total collapse. And here we are at the precipice once again and this fuckweed is calling for everyone to abandon their parachute and commit a trust fall with the greediest most insubstantial people to have ever existed. AKA capitalists
I dare say, capitalism, by it’s very definition, has CREATED all poverty.
Capitalism needs homelessness, joblessness and poverty in order to function. Probably preaching to the choir, but it doesn’t create poverty because it is bad as an economic system, it creates poverty because it works so well.
