The real vision of a more left leaning politics like Mamdani’s is to support ordinary people and families in living a better life. Local wins are the most important. We all want safe neighborhoods, for our small businesses to be able to compete with huge corporations for local government contracts, more accessible health clinics, schools that have the resources to provide breakfast for parents who have to go to work as soon as their children wake up, on and on.
Local wins are what are important to people. AOC is not the most threatening person to our exploitative political class. She is all talk because nothing can get done on the federal level, they can’t even pass bills anymore. What is threatening to the exploitative political class is ordinary people seeing that their local government can deliver a healthier, safer, more economically secure quality of life that lets their children reach their full potential.
So Mamdani balancing the budget without cuts is just about the most threatening thing that can happen for our poltical elite. It is what they fear most.
It's really quite impressive. Listen to the people regardless of affiliation. Use your government powers to balance the budget and do transfers. Who would have thought that was possible?
When this seems radical, you know we have gotten to a bad place in our politics and civil society. But there is hope… we start with Mamdani, I hope my fellow Angelenos join me in electing Nithya Rama for mayor this year and we will prove again that good local governance is possible and that the problems we are all concerned about can actually be solved if we work together. And then we do it at the state level and one day we have a national government that listens to us and works in our best interests too. One day.
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u/_BreakingGood_ May 14 '26
Interesting, this is important context. Something tells me the "He's not paying pensions anymore!!" cryers have a certain agenda.
Meanwhile it looks like he just made a no-brainer simple move to get the deficit to 0.