Donald Trump has said that he will withhold funding for New York City if presumptive Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani becomes mayor after November’s general election and doesn’t do the “right thing.”

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    17 hours ago

    Or it’s not, and that’s the problem. The organised rightwing forces of state repression can easily push around a left that’s been trained and groomed to function as entirely beholden to corporate sponsors and big money donors.

    …to the point it’s now visible and blatant that the establishment left cannot stand and legitimately claim even the possibility they are the solution.

    Because the solution is something more revolutionary that will cause bloodshed and more regular interruptions to people’s daily lives.

    So of course, keep your head down, hope none of this effects you. Ignore that it already has. The dems will fix it later, ect…

    It’s understandable to ignore the civil war even though it’s not rational to.

    Terrorists (freedom fighters) are made as needed, they’re not born ready. Trump’s administration will be looking to stay under that threshold.

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      rightwing forces of state repression can easily push around a left that’s been trained and groomed to function as entirely beholden to corporate sponsors and big money donors.

      That’s not a “left” at all. There are traditionally three groups that vie for power, royalty, merchants, and the people. The left serves the people, Democrats serve the merchants, and Republicans are the royalists.

      The Democrats may represent the left some day, but it’s not who they are right now.

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        16 hours ago

        I had the same reaction. The US has two parties, a far right one and a center right one. There are some center left members in the Democratic Party but the rest of the party sure tries to smother them any chance they get.