Voting for Zohran Mammani is a vote against the Democratic Reaction Center and for a more reliable future.

The shame was the former governor of New York Andrew Kuoma appears in the media after the performance of June 22, 2025 in New York.
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Any argument for Andrew Kuoma’s voting on Mamman as Mayor of New York is approximately as convincing as RFK -Younger, vaccine briefing. But the worst reasoning for the choice of Kuom over Mamman is that the young assembly will “harm the brand” democratic opposition against Trump, and “voters must play a long game.” In other words, yes, kuoma may not be as politically bold and charismatic as Mammani, but when Kuoma loses, a fundamentally Center will turn against the Democrats for choosing such a radical. But “long game” is a lost, and it is strange how many times the Democratic Party needs to study this lesson.
The Cuomo rating is to reward an outdated centrist for his corruption and ignore his misogynistic personal life. It should be deprived that Kuom supported a group of legislators agreed by Republicans, known as independent Democrats who blocked laws that could help working people. It is necessary to deprive that as the governor he covered the number of deaths for the care of the home. It is necessary to deprive him of reliably accused of sexual persecution of at least 13 women. “Long Game” means encouraging a candidate whose only principles are uncritical support for Israel’s genocide and the well -being billionaires (which, of course, lift all boats).
The Dems of the institution that creates this case – from Bill Clinton to James Klim – seemed to be zero awareness of how a toxic kuoma is a person and how disgusting his political profile became a voter, especially in this era of acute crises and growing fascism. People crave politicians who promise programmatically, not just rhetorically (then text to ask for money) to withstand the right. (Why am I getting texts asking to help pay for DNC’s debt? How did he get my number?)
“Long Game” has created 50 years of political defeats and provides more. Our several wins since Nixon won 49 states in 1972, were linked to courageous social movements with roots in the 1960s and 1970s. Everything else was almost an innocent change around the edges, a performance and a two-party attack on the workers, which created the wealth level in the top/10 of 1 percent, which destabilized and would be incredible even 15 years ago if it already felt apocalyptic. With the Democrats of Kuom, who meet or even as opposition, we will need to prepare for the Trillionaire class. Be prepared for more closed communities, more private police and more close violence on both sides.
I hope Zohran will win. Not because I think he will succeed in all his initiatives, not because I am naive enough to think that there will be no ugly two -party reaction. I hope it wins because it will be a statement of its platform; This will be a statement against Trump and especially the war with Gestapo Idon on immigrants; This will say that the residents of the city find the current mayor, controlled by Trump, Eric Adams, a brutal police repression to the peaceful Palestinian rights of participants of the rights of non -working; U will claim that Trump requires political Answer, not some multi -million dollar search “left joe horns”.
The most important thing may be that it will be a loud statement that the central democratic gerantocracy (Kuoma 67 years), which has been pressed against the authorities for decades, is approximately equally relevant and approximately to enjoy the ears-like. But the Mammani rating, not Kuoma, is not just a vote against something. I believe that Mammani’s agenda and the Mamman choice – which holds the most (of course) cynical buddies in high school not only to vote, but also to campaign and optimistic at the moment when both emotions are missing. Without inspiration and optimism, it is impossible to build a movement that can change this country for the better.
I do not predict who is going to defeat, or as the mayor of Mamdani will be able to fulfill his ambitious plan to actually make a city that can come up with people who work in the class (I swear once), but I know it would be a blow to the loss of liberal centimeters who refuse to let go of power. The death of these whigs cannot come quickly enough.
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