Andrew Cuomo concedes New York Democratic mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani

Democrats hate progressives. The two would be separate parties in a sensible democracy, but in the legacy first-past-the-post American system, splitting the party while Republicans exist is political suicide. There are more progressives than center Democrats, but they are not as united as the core establishment Democrats are, which made any one of them irrelevant in primaries up to now. RCV has given them a real chance for the first time. For example by giving Lander votes to Mamdani in the instant runoff. The moment RCV got implemented, long-serving Democrats started suddenly getting kicked out in the primaries. This terrifies them, so Democrats will continue to fight against RCV in the future. Just look how both Cuomo and Adams will try to commit political murder-suicide now by running as independent in the general just so that the "official Democratic party nominee" would not win.

TBF it's possible that RCV created an incentive for Democrats to nominate a better candidate. They're smarter than they look.

Wtf happened to Adams? Sure, he was under criminal corruption indictments, then cozied up to Trump and got "pardoned" (charges dismissed). But then he was supposed to be on the Democratic primary ballot, his picture was even in the official voter guide from a month ago, but on election day his name wasn't even in the list? Now he's apparently running as independent incumbent instead? What a booger!

EDIT: Both Cuomo and Adams are intending to run as independent in the general? WhyTF do we even have primaries then! If they are not going to play by their own rules of their special little club, let's just extend Ranked Choice Voting to cover the general and scrap the primaries altogether!

Will it force the Democratic voters to finally show up to vote? That's the main question.

When rumpy won in 2016, after my initial shock I thought, well maybe he will make it so bad, we will collectively be forced to see the truth, forced to come together and actually have a positive change for the working people.

I didnt know then, that I'd be fearing for the loss of democracy as a whole in 2025, but I think my initial thought still stands.

Maybe this wouldn't be the outcome if Harris won, but if the silver lining is people start paying attention, I'm happy for it.

I'm suspicious that sociopaths are a parasitic subspecies. Like there are these alien creatures that look entirely human walking around among us. They look like us, talk like us, but think that the general human species is inferior to their own.

What if they could identify other sociopaths, and were working in concert. Hmm, this is ridiculous.

Anyway, yeah. I don't think Clinton is capable of that level of introspection.

The voters voted DESPITE the democratic party

The democratic party didn't canvas those neighborhoods, the democratic party didn't knock over a million doors, the democratic party didn't win this election

DEMOCRATIC SOCALISTS OF AMERICA WON THIS ELECTION

And you should GET FUCKING USED TO IT. Your machine is broken and worthless, you just witnessed an actual campaign for the people, by the people, and look at the results. Fuck the DNC.

I called the 2024 election when Biden won in 2020. He was a shitty corporate centrist candidate who was never going to address our deep structural inequality, and so frustrated uneducated people voted for change in 2024. Obama won 2008 because people wanted "Change". Trump won 2016 to drain the swamp. We're all so sick of this crony corporate bullshit.

Socialists or we lose. It should've been obvious all along that the "centrists" and "Libertarians" are just embarrassed Republicans. America has been sick and tired of corporations overtly ruling for decades and moderates don't want to own that.

Voters weren't scared of a dictatorship on day one by a guy quoting Hitler. And at this point, they aren't scared of socialism, not anymore. The only way we win elections is by supporting candidates who are actually good. Even if a moderate wins this election, they'll lose us the next election and the good half will be undone. We can only discount the value of the next election iff our candidate will address our broken elections.

TL;DR: Socialists or we lose.

Yeah I didn’t think that. Biden was a bandaid that let the wound fester.

Fingers crossed, but give us rank choice voting or I fear the progressive bloc will not be obvious

This'll just ensure a republican win, will it not?

I hope I am wrong. But I have a fear that the knives are going to come out more so than they have already.

Not what I was thinking. Four thugs bust into his house at 3am, stuff him in a van, and he is never seen again.

But your way is more likely.

Sshhh you might give them ideas

The liberal candidate who lost (Cuomo) has announced he is going to run in the general as an independent (which is in OP's link), instead of supporting the nominee. So Cuomo primary voters may split from the Democratic nominee in the general for Cuomo.

The gist is what the other person said, but to expand on the the point I wanted to make: Whenever you (or, well, I) suggest that the left should antagonize the DNC, liberals come out of the woodwork saying that splitting the anti-conservative vote will only lead to conservatives winning and that instead leftists should vote in primaries. The idea is that if the leftist candidate wins the liberals will respect party norms and support the winner of the primary, providing a safer path to progress. Here we have the liberal favorite completely shitting on party norms and running as an independent even though he lost the primary to a leftist, so the whole proposition of a united front against the right through primaries falls apart. This would fatally discredit the idea that primaries are a viable substitute for a leftist third party if liberals cared about facts.

It is probably a dog whistle for Zionist. Mamdani has been outspoken against Zionism.

If performative ethics were an Olympic sport..

I'd say that Adams ran as a centrist candidate. Bloomberg too.