I think it’s also worth noting that the independent candidate (Cuomo) was not the 3rd party candidate - since Mamdani and Cuomo were the 2 viable candidates, Sliwa’s votes moved to the nearest viable candidate.
Lots of people seem to think that 3rd parties are defined by lack of party nomination
The lesson here isn’t “we’re stuck on rails with no real choices because both dems and republicans make me feel icky” the actual lesson here is that if the party that most closely connects with your ideology doesn’t satisfy you, remake it, sweep out the dusty old corpses and artifacts from a century ago and bring in new leadership and new mandates.
THAT is the lesson that this election should be teaching every leftist and progressive out there. That and the power of actually unifying as a fucking community and not creating weird, isolated ideological factions purity testing each other.
We should take a huge lesson from Mamdani’s handling of his repeated grilling on why he won’t condemn this word or that phrase - STOP GETTING DISTRACTED.
I’d like to take a moment to point out that the third-party candidate did not, in fact, win.
I think it’s also worth noting that the independent candidate (Cuomo) was not the 3rd party candidate - since Mamdani and Cuomo were the 2 viable candidates, Sliwa’s votes moved to the nearest viable candidate.
Lots of people seem to think that 3rd parties are defined by lack of party nomination
Third party candidates never win.
The lesson here isn’t “we’re stuck on rails with no real choices because both dems and republicans make me feel icky” the actual lesson here is that if the party that most closely connects with your ideology doesn’t satisfy you, remake it, sweep out the dusty old corpses and artifacts from a century ago and bring in new leadership and new mandates.
THAT is the lesson that this election should be teaching every leftist and progressive out there. That and the power of actually unifying as a fucking community and not creating weird, isolated ideological factions purity testing each other.
We should take a huge lesson from Mamdani’s handling of his repeated grilling on why he won’t condemn this word or that phrase - STOP GETTING DISTRACTED.
The lesson was to vote in the primaries.
But still got more votes lol, just vote it more instead of saying “BuT tHeY nEvEr WiN”