[deepsquirrelnet]

> That could help explain why Zohran Mamdani, a Democratic socialist state assemblyman, won the Democratic primary for New York City mayor earlier this summer with the support of young people.

My fear is that we are continuing to accelerate the younger generation toward that by doubling, tripling down on a system that isn’t working for people and punting on fixing it. We are continuing to deregulate, allow companies to union bust and remove any balance of power between businesses and workers.

In the minds of many, it seems like we need a revolution and not a reformation. And to the people charged with decision making, we need nothing at all. I would prefer we fix the system we have, but I’m increasingly worried that is becoming infeasible.

[TehCorwiz]

The President is currently demanding bribes and fealty from corporations in the open while sending the us military against its citizens.

If reformation fails then we are headed towards a dark place anyway.

[slater]

> punting on fixing it

we could also make the same argument re: old folks in politics hanging on to their seats long, long after the point where they should be spending their days pushing a little white ball around the local golf course

[alchemical_piss]

Yeah, against the ugly smug face of Cuomo I’d choose anyone else too.