Anonymous #1 1w

It’s partly because it’s NYC and that’s a huge city. But also Mamdani was fighting an extremely uphill battle against both dems and republicans to push a liberal economic policy.

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he actually didnt. despite panic from the least economically literate among us, funding basic social services that furnish essential human needs to the less fortunate is not socialism. it’s just social services. socialism is when the government owns the corporations

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His “socialist” policies are to the right of what most other developed countries such as Germany have.

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Anonymous #4 1w

Mamdani’s plans go way past basic social services. Things like free transit, rent freezes, and big tax hikes lean more toward democratic socialism.

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Anonymous #2 1w

That makes sense lol I should’ve put two and two together. I knew he was facing a ton of pressure and hatred. Glad he won

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Anonymous #3 1w

free transit is still just a social services, “taxes” are not socialist by nature (?????) and rent freezes are also just… like a thing liberal governments have to do sometimes

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Anonymous #4 1w

none of that is straight socialism. But Mamdani’s whole platform pushes government deeper into managing markets and redistributing wealth. It’s not Soviet socialism, but it’s definitely a step toward that social-democratic model that’s tough to sustain with NYC’s budget and state limits.

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