Political Memes

but even attempting to get stuff done makes people happy.

Meanwhile, mainstream Dems: "We can't do that. If we tried to do things, the Republicans would be mad at us."

And getting stuff done implies in some part that it could have been done before. So why had it not?

He's the politician that didn't get the memo to try and look like you're doing something, but don't actually do it. As if we'll run out of problems to solve and campaign on. Maybe it's that simple - having to shift to new messages is hard vs. sticking with the old ones.

Yeah even good intentions are rare

Are Americans going to pop a blood vessel in their eye if they don't use abrivations for everything?

Or, in reality, the progressive voters don't show up during Democratic primaries and the DNC responds to those who do.

Nah. DNC leadership has been in Fear and Crisis mode for years. American politics is a horrible machine that eats goals and wishes and produces misery for the people. Trying to enact positive change is soul-crushingly hard in that environment, but grifting and ponzi schemes play on the fear and frustration of the people for some ephemeral succor who don't realize that toxicity is making them the ephemeral suckers; so those ponzi schemes are very good for the ciminals who run them, and very bad as usual for the victims.

Mayor Mamdani is upsetting that downward status quo with some rare performance art of improvement, and there's the small chance he could accidentally force the DNC to actually act on goals that it once held dear and promoted in its actions, when it had the power to do so. If the US survives the grifter convention that is the current kleptocratic administration with any of its tenets intact, and if the DNC remembers how to serve the wishes of the people in action as it does in talking points the public itself has begun to ignore in its own spiral of fear and worry, that's the best chance I think the US has.

I don't see a massive reformation of the political system, an upgrade to the voting system that allows for multiple parties, or a regime change in all three branches as being achievable nor helpful, unfortunately. I like to be optimistic, but one doesn't turn a seniors bus around in the taco bell drive-through lane.

If Mamdani is centrist that means regular dems are quite far on the right