Progressive Politics

And they're flubbing it so hard, which is half the joke of all this.

Cuomo was a shoe-in, according to the polls, two months before the election. The dude was going to walk into Gracie Mansion without breaking a sweat. Then Mamdani - a virtual unknown State Senator out of Astoria - gets a bit of traction with his campaign platform and a ton of hate from the Zionist national media. Suddenly, this dark horse candidate is on everyone's TV screens. He's the center of the national fight over the Gaza genocide. And he's getting up on the TV to say things like "Buses should be free at point of use" and "Maybe we could get grocery store prices down if we ran them like the Post Office", which are the crazy left-wing ideas that nobody else is suggesting.

He's glad-handing Brad Lander after the man is bullied by ICE. He's talking about housing reform in one of the most expensive places to live in the country. He's getting car bomb threats from a guy who doesn't know he takes the subway to work. All the worst people you know hate him.

Wins by 12 points. Obama didn't have it this good.

The DNC and the top of the party would MUCH rather lose to the Fascists across the aisle they have a corpo bribe sharing agreement with than win with a candidate that campaigns on bringing accountability to those wealthy bribers.

Or to put it another way, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer would lock arms with Republicans and treat President AOC, for example, the way most Democrat voters wish they were treating Trump. Scorched earth, not a single meeting, not a single appointment, just bill after bill trying to strip all Presidential power until a hypercapitalist sits in the chair again.

Neoliberals are much closer to Republicans than they are to anything resembling a leftwing, politically. The only thing that separates them is not actively pointing and laughing at you when they hurt you to line their pockets, they just shrug, call it market forces, and hand you an affirmation ribbon you can neither eat nor live inside.

Which is why this nation is beyond repair and we need to force collapse and start over, with a constitution barring capital markets and any profit sharing that isn't tied to working/laboring for what's being profited from. Speculative investment is cancer that breeds sociopathy, division, and death ☠️. No neoliberal or fascist is against the for profit deathcare confidence scheme we call American healthcare for all but the wealthy. They're both paid to defend it from us.

One of the youngest members of congress is Kyrsten Sinoma.

Kyrsten Sinema. And she declined to run for reelection, ceding the primary to Ruben Gallego (slightly younger, at 45) who looked good-ish on paper a couple years ago. But now he's fallen in with the Crypto-Bros, he's been seen taking money from the Qatars, and he's otherwise indistinguishable from any of the other pro-war, corporate-friendly Schumer style liberal Democrats.

they’re trusted to protect the interests of capital.

The irony of it all is how we're immolating our industrial base and flinging trillions into tech sector lucid dreams in a way suggests a very bleak future for actual physical capital in the country.