Andrew Cuomo, an elderly has-been, the lesser son of a greater sire, who as governor literally conspired with Republicans to hand them control of the New York state Senate for half a decade; who resigned from office in disgrace after he was credibly accused of 13 instances of sexual harassment; and whose campaign quite obviously had no purpose other than satisfying his own lust for accumulating personal power, along with that of his billionaire donors.
As the campaign progressed and Mamdaniās victory became ever more likely, Cuomo descended into vindictive gutter racism. He did not disagree with a right-wing radio host who said that Mamdani would be ācheeringā another 9/11, suggested that Mamdani would have Muslim women ācompletely covered up,ā and that he ādoesnāt understand New York cultureā because heās a ācitizen of Uganda.ā
Cuomo happily took Donald Trumpās endorsement and went on Fox News to tout it. His closing campaign message, as The Nationās Jeet Heer pointed out on Bluesky, smacked of Vidkun Quislingāimplicitly threatening New Yorkers with a Trumpian occupation if they voted for anyone but Cuomo.
It was disgusting stuff. But it also was palpably desperate, and coming from one of the worst candidates imaginableā¦
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What we see, I think, are a bunch of rich guys who have been comically out of touch with normal people for many decades, and more recently have blowtorched their brains into a smoking pile of ash on Elon Muskās Twitter/X and in various group chats. Itās why they got so worked up about Mamdani in the first placeāthe New York City mayoralty is not some omnipotent office, and there are a dozen ways to hem it in at the state and local level if they so wished. What these oligarchs spent to stop Mamdani feels like less on an annual basis than he wants them to pay for a better future for all New Yorkers, a joke Mamdani himself has made.
In any case, his slight tax increase on rich people, free buses, and city-run grocery stores are pretty far from a communist revolution. But thatās not how it appears to rich people, surrounded on all sides by yes-men and toadies, who spend several hours a day marinating in an online Nazi sewer.
If you care to learn about the corruption and indefinitely passed bucks of a big city mayorship, I can point you to some books. But there is altogether too much information for me to offer convincingly in a lemmy comment.
It seems like itās a baseline level of political misunderstanding that Iām entirely unwilling and incapable of correcting. Yes, heās held seats, and yes, heās had successes there. The gap is wider than you understand it to be.
Dude, Iām trying to understand your comment. Just look through any political comment section to find undue veneration.
You felt it was so common you had to pre-emptively address it in a new threadā¦
But canāt give a single example?
Likeā¦
You donāt realize that asking someone to find a comment that fits your definition of something is a literal impossible task?
Iām saying I donāt see any that fit my definition, how do I know when i see one that meets your definition?
Itās literally impossible for me, and you keep implying theyāre all over and common, so it would take you seconds or me an infinite amount of timeā¦
If youāre unwilling to accept the book recommendations, I donāt feel thereās a constructive way forward in this conversation, where I am heard and you are as well. Iām unwilling to write a novel and I can sense youād be unwilling to read it, but more than happy for me to write it. Have a good one
Cool, glad we can agree that no āhero worshipā has been going on like you initially thought.
Otherwise youād have just provided a link, would have been faster than typing that comment if theyāre everywhere.