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Zohran is gonna win
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Apologies for being pessimistic but it's not gonna matter at all. It might even be worse if he does win. Half the Democrats are already planning independent runs. The other half will do everything in their power to sabotage his run from inside the party. If he does win the primary then the whole New York Democratic apparatus is going to withhold its support for him and will quietly support Cuomo.
If he somehow manages to win in the general election despite this then the whole bureaucracy will just cease to cooperate with him and ever single issue will be blamed on him. The papers will say "The People's Republic of NYC, another failure of socialism". He's an AOC/old school DSA guy which means he's unlikely to have the guts to seize and wield power the way he would need to because the norms are too important.
This is the problem with the DSA program that they actually carry out. They are able to build electoral machines that win elections but they're toothless at the end of the day. When they get into office they are simply not compatible with the bourgeois state as it exists and the actual power brokers in the DSA are unwilling to smash any part of the capitalist state with mass action.
Edit: if I were to offer a solution rather than just a criticism I would say after the primary he should run for mayor regardless of whether or not he wins and he should spend the entire campaign explaining to New Yorkers that if they want things like universal childcare, free busses, and rent freezes then they need to make the system untenable until they are won. He needs to explain to them very explicitly that no politician can or will deliver on those things and all the forces of the state are aligned against them.
We want Zohran to win so that when the system crushes his reforms his media savviness can be leveraged to radicalize the populace
AOC and Sanders are utter media illiterates and too absorbed by the DC bubble, Zohran doesn't have those twin weaknesses, the dude knows media and how to make it
This is exactly the polarized response we want to generate and this time we'll have a New York City mayor of all things, capable of counter propaganda at a time when the pendulum is swinging back against the far-right
Yes, but I think people can only learn that lesson the hard way. It's part of the historical process.
Yeah I'm at the point now I don't even root for socialists in these petty local elections. Feels like every time we win we just get blamed for every single fucking problem the locale had, even if it was shit that was going on/worse under the previous establishment Dem. Our enemies propaganda machine is too damn strong for us to have any mainstream victory.
While I agree with the sentiment, I think we're going to get blamed regardless of whether we're in power. Might as well have some decision making power while it happens. I think part of it is that we need candidates who are willing to push back hard against the narratives . drop the high road shit and step into the pit.
That is also what i see happening if he wins. And honestly, i dont even know if he could do much as mayor even if he tried. The system is corrupt as fuck, theres no reforming it