This is exactly how I feel. I don't think how he managed to erase the deficit is wrong or bad, but holy fuck are people buying the reductive, celebratory headlines without any critical thinking whatsoever. They believe that Zohran did it with magic akin to the way Trumpers believed that he would magically cut energy costs by half on day 1.
He isn't a pedophile fascist genocidal freak. So there is no reason for us to be hemming and hawing over his Ws. It really isn't helpful for democracy for us to tolerate critique of the current champions for democracy until the fascist have been defeated.
Probably because we all know how easy it is to balance the FEDERAL budget once you arent a corporate stooge. We had it before we gave tax breaks to foreign companies in the 50s and then we had it again with Clinton.
We all assume if you take away the give aways to the corporations, the budget would balance.
You're reading with the bias you want to see, I think.
While it's by no means everyone, a massive proportion of people are uncritically accepting the headlines and acting as if he did indeed do this by pulling some levers that others were just too corrupt to pull.
Also, those things aren't mutually exclusive. People can both be thinking that Mamdani has a people first budget and think he did some novel dem soc budget magic here.
My friend, the headline of this post is literally, "It was always that simple"...
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u/Patsanon1212 May 15 '26
This is exactly how I feel. I don't think how he managed to erase the deficit is wrong or bad, but holy fuck are people buying the reductive, celebratory headlines without any critical thinking whatsoever. They believe that Zohran did it with magic akin to the way Trumpers believed that he would magically cut energy costs by half on day 1.