Urban areas deserve the government they get ??India Walton stuns longtime incumbent in Buffalo mayoral primary.
Ms. Walton, a progressive challenger running her first campaign, is on track to become the first socialist mayor of a big city in 60 years.www.nytimes.com
Basically the four term incumbent got lazy and with low turnout the motivated "left" came out and brought home the upset win. Looks like Buffalo will now be closed for business.
It’s also how we got Dementia Joe and the Fake African. It’s called the whiplash effect.
Orange man is still in your head
Yet the NYC Mayor race is likely to come down to a Former Cop and the creator of the Guardian Angels.
Extremely high poverty rate along with a number of other social and economic problems that come from being decades removed from being a manufacturing/industrial powerhouse in the rust belt.
Still, these Modern Socialists are extremely disconnected from Blue Collar workers. Their appeal is spoiled 20-30 somethings who feel like they shouldn’t have to pay back their student loans and announce their pronouns to strangers. They don’t appeal to steel workers, stevedores, truck drivers,etc.
I don't know that I'd agree with that. The appeal I think is a lot broader than most here want to believe while also being not as deep. This isn't some wave movement but at the same time it's not exclusively younger adults. Poorer blue collar workers in urban core areas have a lot of the same problems and concerns as the yuppie Socialists regardless of their education level or occupation.
I think you hit the nail on the head with 20,000 votes out of 260,000 and I don’t think it’s got much to do with the time of the year... socialists are a very fevorent group that believes absolutely in their cockamamie ideas and will show up to primaries while the average blue collar worker doesn’t vote in primaries.
I’ve never known a blue collar person to be woke.
I don’t think there’s a movement among real working class people. Look at the Bernie rallies and his supporters online, how many of them look like actual blue collar people?
No. He is still in the head of the America people as evidenced by the election in Buffalo.
I think they should elect Andrew.
Which has nothing to do with Trump but nice try.
People dont elect local leadership based on former presidents but good to see he still dominates your thinking ?
He got obliterated.
These types of people are your modern socialists
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Blue collar and working class people typically care about rising costs of living, i.e. problems generally caused by inflation that disproportionately hurt those that are poorer.
