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This good news but wish we could win bigger races. Like governors.
Every step builds momentum and verifies that Democratic Socialism is a winning platform. Soon it may have a snowball effect.
Its a city with more people in it than 25 states.
Also home to no less than 17 different US congressional districts, 27 State Assembly districts, and 14 State Senate districts. Lots of opportunities to bring socialists into your administration, contract with labor-friendly businesses and encourage pro-labor policy in the enormous municipal workforce, and line up the next generation of socialist aspirants for high office. As a center of power from which to cultivate more like-minded Socialist politicians you'd be hard pressed to name a better spot.
I would say the bigger issue with the LA Mayoralty is that it's a generally weak-mayor system, requiring more buy-in from City Council and a good raport with the City Controller to get a budget approved. Fortunately, DSA already holds several city council seats and has been expanding its popularity city-wide for over a decade.
If you're going to be a Socialist in America and you have aspirations toward public office (or just a role in the public-sector bureaucracy), you can pick quite a few worse places to live.
I look at it same as Mamdani.
We need to show people a good example of these policies in practice. And this addresses the criticism of only going for President or higher office.
And residents still have a fractional amount of voting power compared to someone in Wyoming. Thanks senate structure…
The Senate isn't the main problem. We need to fix the House before we can ditch the Senate.
What I mean is, repeal the Permanent apportionment act of 1929 and make the House of Representatives actually representative.
With that one act of Congress, the House and Presidency would realign themselves with national popular vote.
This would make further changes possible.
This is exactly how grassroots movements work, they start small and work their way up.
Gotta start somewhere. What we need is to get results from these positions and get the average man’s attention to the fact that they’ve been lying about socialism and communism to keep their capitalist grift going and remain oligarch kings for longer than most American’s lives.
Nothing deprograms better than results.
Many governors are former mayors.