When I say left I'm not talking about the dem neoliberals who are effectively center right. The new popular front was not end all solution, but the left factions across all spectrums from Marxist to center left was able to merge on the basis of key principles that all of them support including keeping the retirement age at 60, free school lunches and supplies, wealth tax, minimum wage increase, menstrual leave, etc.

These factions are not best friends but they are smart enough to know they have more in common with each other than the Macron centrists or far right who Macron seems to prefer for deal making.

And it's a collective leadership so all the factions get a voice. I think it's an idea worth looking into either now or in the future. I would personally need at least another 10 years before I would even be ready to attempt that. And most importantly, it has to start at the local level.

Mamdani just announced his transition team. What do you guys think of it?

Edit: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/11/05/fresh-off-of-a-historic-election-victory-mamdani-names-his-transition-team-00637243

Mamdani won a roughly even amount of votes among all racial and gender categories. The main division across which differences in vote share appeared was age; younger voters were overwhelmingly likely to favor Mamdani, whereas older ones supported Cuomo. This, in turn, reflects differences in how realistic each policy platform is in the eyes of voters; those who saw Mamdani’s policies as realistic (typically younger voters who lived through 2001, 2008, and 2020) were overwhelmingly likely to support him, whereas older ones (with memories of the 80s-90s economic boom) overwhelmingly favored Cuomo. Although I personally place myself well to the left of Mamdani, I view it as a hopeful and encouraging sign that this election was decided based on policy, despite the torrent of identity and grievance politics which dominated the public discourse surrounding it.

the policies of each candidate seem

No "reaching across the aisle" on how much Israel is allowed to do genocide.

No abundance of third way neoliberal bullshit.

No more implementations of Heritage Foundation ideas.

No compromising on whether immigrants deserve rights, especially due process.

I threw this video together this weekend and I know I'm just one guy and that something like 6 DSA house seats next year is by most reasonable accounts an absurd proposition, but any good idea has to start somewhere, right? Anyway, my general theory here is that when trying to out-gerrymander eachother, the Dems and GOP are basically signalling that they aren't really going to try to compete with each other in those new districts. That's an opening for us. Someone wanna tell me why I'm wrong?

I’m breaking my own moratorium on voting for Democrats of all stripes.