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Mamdani is far better than his opposition, but his policies aren’t gonna bring socialism.

See, this is exactly the type of thing that is wrong with the general attitudes of people on this website.

Moaning, calling the majority of people fascists for having pragmatic plans, joking about revolution plans youll never attempt, much less succeed at all are severe forms of idealism.

You will literally never magically go to sleep one day in capitalist land, and then wake up in socialist land. That just is not how it works.

All the people who think they remember reading some historical account where that happened clearly missed a lot of information, because no societal change like that happens that quickly. Even for changes that appear quick, what is often missed are the huge amounts of smaller events that built up to those events, and the stepping stones.

Everyone on this site seems to utterly refuse to acknowledge this and seems to want to lambaste any idea that deals with the reality that socialist rome cannot be built in a day.

Anything that isn't a full measure to them, might as well literally be the same thing as trump, and that's just absurdly counter productive and naive.

Mamdani is bringing socialism, but slightly, and with digestible measures which should change public opinion. It's not all or nothing. Small change is good change too.

Others should do so as well. In so doing people warm up to an idea rather than the fringiest, cringiest people thinking that shrieking at the general public will magically lead them to change their opinions and accept massive differences immediately.

I agree it’s better to support him than not because I don’t want people to suffer under worse politicians,

In case it was purposeful, I want to add that it should be "not only because", because, and this is another problem I have with many of attitudes here, right now matters! People who are alive and living right now matter! Their lives and shared experiences matter!

It's absolutely not ok to throw away their lives for some idealistic hail mary you (general you) think will save the world, particularly when doing so wouldn't even work.

but we should use this opportunity to organize and demand more, not less.

I am cautious about using the word demand, because it implies that you have leverage in a way I think many lemmy users think they have leverage, but they absolutely do not.

I think too many lemmy users think that protest voting does anything other than setting them back, not realizing that 2 party systems love the rocking back and forth where one party can just outright benefit the rich, and the other can campaign on cutting some of those changes back. Any allowance for this hurts the cause.

Instead, the only areas they have leverage are in electing people like Mamdani through primaries, local and state politics. They can apply leverage by changing what the average member of the party closest to their views looks like to start a progressive shift.

Whether Mamdani achieves his goals or not, people won’t be able to maintain any gains without an organized working class.

I think they will, because there is something to be said for changing the uncaring persons passive opinion on what has been marketed as the devil for too long. The average person notices that NYC does better with Mamdani, and the next time some big media source rages on about how socialism will ruin us all, they think "meh, thats probably not true".