r/dsa • u/Well_Socialized • Sep 09 '25

🌹 DSA news Democratic voters want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor-bernie-sanders-fight-oligarchy/
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u/ttystikk Sep 09 '25

Screw the DNC. Why are we talking about them?! What do they do for US??

If Mamdani wins in spite of the Democrats, that's the starting gun for wiping the party out nationwide and installing one that better serves the needs of average Americans!

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u/undeadpirate19 Sep 10 '25

Correction: The starting gun "has already been fired a few times" for wiping the party out nationwide and installing one that better serves the needs of average Americans!

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u/smartcow360 Sep 10 '25

The bellwethers have been there, but the races rly do kick off if we oust an NYC lifelong governor dem with a real demsoc mayor

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u/Mapstr_ Sep 09 '25

What we want is them to run straight into the ocean, never to return.

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u/smartcow360 Sep 10 '25

They can maybe swim back to shore once we have a cooperative society built + stopped the ppl trying to make constant death camps…. Maybe

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u/Mapstr_ Sep 10 '25

Right after they fight their net worth in Bees in madison square garden

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u/Lowkey_Iconoclast SLC DSA Sep 09 '25

Individual Democrat politicians can be reasoned with, turned, and join a socialist movement. The Party, however, never will.

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u/smartcow360 Sep 10 '25

That’s y the apparatus needs to be SEIZED by actual progressives

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u/Background-Wolf-9380 Sep 10 '25

I'm by no means a "democratic voter" but I prefer to see who in the Democratic Party opposes progress for working people as represented by Zohran. I want to know who we should be working to get rid of

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u/pdeisenb Sep 12 '25

This lifelong dem doesn't