• stephen01king@lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      Shows just how rigged the system is against the average person. We can see from Mamdani that you need an exciting candidate first and foremost, then the voter support comes after naturally. People need to feel excited to vote in a system where they feel their voices aren’t being heard.

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        16 hours ago

        you need an exciting candidate first and foremost

        Yeah I’m sorry that’s bullshit.

        More boring candidates, please. Mamdani is an outlier in a super blue city.

        This isn’t a fucking Super Bowl halftime show, this is boring shit and it should be boring.

        “The candidate wasn’t exciting enough” has never, and will never, be a legitimate excuse for not voting for someone.

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          10 hours ago

          Low information and low political engagement people do need someone who excites them to get off the couch and vote.

          The type of people who live for personal drama and excitement.

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          13 hours ago

          Nobody is talking about legitimate excuses, we’re talking about reality, and the reality is that Kamala starts losing momentum the moment she stops being exciting to the average voter when she pivots to cater more to the right wing voters and her donors.

          Mamdani won from being 1% of the polls due to being exciting, which inspired his voter base to go door to door and spread his message. You’re also still spreading the lie that a progressive win is only possible in a super blue cities when Platner has already proved that an exciting progressive candidate can make headway even in a purple states? I think your views are outdated at this point.

          Also, I don’t know why you keep attacking progressive politics despite the fact that your country is already tearing itself apart due to the decades of status quo politics rotting it from the inside out. Be ready to change if you want to stop the death spiral your country is currently in or get out of the way of people who wants to make a change.

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        11 hours ago

        If people need to feel excited about getting involved in their own civic self interest then people deserve trump and republicans.

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          4 hours ago

          The same can be said about people like you who’d rather feel smug about the issue instead of bringing in actual change by looking at reality.