Reply to Who are you voting for in the Dem primary for mayor?

Forum Index » Metropolitan New York City

Reply to "Who are you voting for in the Dem primary for mayor? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You lost me at "conservative." I think most of the people opposing you have made it clear that they are lifelong Democrats and anti-Trump. So that puts them well to the left of more than half of America. There are so many people who live in the super liberal bubble of NYC and never leave it. And these people constantly call their moderate Democrat neighbors conservative, or worse yet accuse them of being like Trump. This is mean and rude and incredibly simplistic.[/quote]

This is a race for mayor of NYC; I think it's fair to refer to Cuomo as the conservative candidate in this race, and his supporters as conservatives. You'd probably all be considered raving liberals in Texas, but we're not in Texas. Cuomo also has a number of qualities in common with Trump - the ego and bullying and self-centeredness and of course all the sexual harassment - that I don't think his supporters are grappling with. And, again, he helped ensure Republicans would control the NY State Senate, so if you're truly a lifelong Democrat and anti-Trump then I don't see how you could consider that remotely acceptable.

[quote=Anonymous]Running a big city is all about tradeoffs and compromise. Cuomo admittedly has some issues with this as well. But he has been there before so gets the joke more.[/quote]

He's shown less willingness to compromise than Mamdani, and has a much longer track record of not compromising on stuff, and he's twice Mamdani's age so he has a lot less potential for growth in that area; if you're going to vote for somebody with unrealistic proposals then I don't think 'getting the joke' is a reason to pick one candidate over another.

[quote=Anonymous]I think Lander could be tolerable. I wish he hadn't aligned with Mamdani as it is a bad sign. I think there are a lot of people who will have a ballot in some order of Cuomo, Tilson, Stringer, Myrie and Ramos. And for those who can't stomach Cuomo (which I can fully understand), they might slide in Lander.[/quote]

Myrie and Ramos are both to the left of Lander so I don't know why anyone would have a ballot with those two and *not* Lander unless they're simply on some sort of personal vendetta against Mamdani and anybody who's friendly to Mamdani, in which case I would suggest that maybe there are reasons for that that go beyond his policies or supposed lack of experience.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics