Mamdani understood what the people who tried to demonize him did not: that voters aren’t buying the same old smears about Palestine anymore.
  • Zak@lemmy.world
    31·
    2 个月前

    Even if that assumption were correct, the mayor of NYC cannot meaningfully aid or hinder Israel’s actions. A politician’s position on an issue far outside the scope of the office they’re seeking doesn’t usually influence my vote.

    • grue@lemmy.world
      26·
      2 个月前

      The oligarchs can’t win on the merits of their policies, so they desperately resort to identity politics to try to divide us.

    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
      11·
      2 个月前

      There might be some things the mayor could do, like joining boycotts, etc.

      Certainly he can stop or interfere with the crackdown on pro-palestinian dissent in the city which has been extreme under Adams and Trump.

    • Revan343@lemmy.ca
      6·
      2 个月前

      A politician’s position on an issue far outside the scope of the office they’re seeking doesn’t usually influence my vote

      You’re probably the minority on that