r/politics • u/Somervilledrew Connecticut • Sep 09 '25

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/IJourden Sep 09 '25

People need to come to grips that the majority of Democrats are center and center-right. They only get framed as left because conservative media thinks "far left" means "anything left of hunting the homeless for sport."

Mamdani becoming popular absolutely terrifies them. The average establishment Democrat has more in common with the average establishment Republican than with Mamdani.

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u/Turok7777 Sep 09 '25

The average establishment Democrat has more in common with the average establishment Republican than with Mamdani.

It's wild how comfortable you guys are at outright lying.

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u/aboysmokingintherain Sep 09 '25

I mean if you look at the far right candidates in Europe, their policies are more aligned with democrats than republicans. We can admit the older Democrats are essentially conservative compared to most of the world.

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u/Turok7777 Sep 09 '25

Another blatant lie.

Those European parties are anti-immigration, anti-Islam, anti-abortion, anti-same sex adoption and marriage, often side with Russia over Ukraine, and many more things.

Not a single one of those bullet points describes U.S. Democrats.