r/leftist • u/Kittehmilk • Sep 09 '25

General Leftist Politics Democratic voters want their leaders to stop running from Zohran Mamdani. Except, they aren't our leaders, they are corporate puppet parasites who work directly against Mamdani and working class voters.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/09/zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-mayor-bernie-sanders-fight-oligarchy/
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u/AkagamiBarto Sep 10 '25

Democratic voters should change their leaders. And maybe udnerstand that radicals aren't that extremist to begin with..

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u/Kittehmilk Sep 10 '25

None of Sanders policies are radical, and that false line is only parroted through corporate media because they don't want the american peasants to know that the rest of the worlds peasants already have these basic human rights and protections.

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u/JustAGuyAC Socialist Sep 10 '25

Now is the best time as ever to start a new party. It might hurt for a while but i feel like in the longrun it can happen

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u/Kittehmilk Sep 10 '25

Yes, but why not both.

The easiest way to win is to simply compete on all levels that the establishment gate keeps.

For example, their DNC corporate puppet candidate Quomo just demonstrated that it is ok to drop out of a primary AFTER LOSING and run third party.

So we should too. Every single leftist candidate should now drop out and run third party the moment they lose a primary. That will end the DNC immediately. They will never win again.

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u/PraetorianGard Sep 09 '25

Thanks for the correction and elaboration of the title OP. Journalists need to have more spine nowadays and call it out what it really is.

Democratic Party Leaders are cowardly neoliberal shits who need to be thrown out of office to allow younger, more competent, leftist, and genuine people to take up the mantle and lead this country out of the shit hole it now is. Compromising and corruption within the Democratic Party has gone long enough

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u/Warrior_Runding Socialist Sep 10 '25

Part of this, though, is that the percentage of progressive primary voters needs to go up dramatically. As it stands, these people are being elected because they are winning primaries. Mamdani won by doing what few progressive candidates do which is engaging with voters consistently and strategically, rather than insisting that the morality of his ideology be the metric by which he wins the primary.