Didn’t Bernie come close-ish to winning the Democratic national primary for president and push a great number more people to identify as socialist, to the point where Mamdani openly ran as a socialist and became mayor of NYC?
Also, iirc, the US is no longer majority white. And Trump had sizeable latino support in the last election. I think that people just don’t categorize themselves into identity groups as much as some would like to believe, and simply have a default state of hoping that bad times will blow over
You are right, no matter the colour of your skin or the minority group you belong to, most people prefer kicking down.
Let’s not tax billionaires, I’ll be one next week. Humans are terrible at self awareness and we have been stripped of solidarity by algorithms on top of that.
On small scales (towns, communities) solidarity works. That’s why we should work on reconnecting. Meet your neighbours, join a club. Maybe this is what also helped Mamdani? I sure hope the US will figure this out, Bernie is too old now but AOC would make a wonderful leader.
Sadly you are probably right. The only decent ones speaking up are AOC and Bernie, and they have been yelling into the void for many years now.
But the large majority has nothing to hide, is white and is not affected until it’s too late. First they come for the…
Didn’t Bernie come close-ish to winning the Democratic national primary for president and push a great number more people to identify as socialist, to the point where Mamdani openly ran as a socialist and became mayor of NYC?
Also, iirc, the US is no longer majority white. And Trump had sizeable latino support in the last election. I think that people just don’t categorize themselves into identity groups as much as some would like to believe, and simply have a default state of hoping that bad times will blow over
You are right, no matter the colour of your skin or the minority group you belong to, most people prefer kicking down.
Let’s not tax billionaires, I’ll be one next week. Humans are terrible at self awareness and we have been stripped of solidarity by algorithms on top of that.
On small scales (towns, communities) solidarity works. That’s why we should work on reconnecting. Meet your neighbours, join a club. Maybe this is what also helped Mamdani? I sure hope the US will figure this out, Bernie is too old now but AOC would make a wonderful leader.