Mamdani
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How does hiring unionized staff drive prices down?
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Seems regressive. Subsidized groceries for everybody, rather than targeted at the poor. Whatever this costs could have just been given as food stamps to the demonstrably needy. That end result of more food stamps is what you have to compare with, for anybody who thinks this is a good idea.
The upper middle class whites who voted for Mamdani would probably shop there on principle, thinking it's the virtuous choice. Even though they don't need the subsidized groceries.
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The 5 grocery stores would be put in the poorest and/or most dangerous areas of each borough. I'm sure crime won't be a factor at all.
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Can’t help but laugh at this. Might not be understood by most.
This bridge was renamed by Cuomo (after his dad) literally in the dark of night in a back room deal with the legislature. No warning, no floating the idea, just done. Of course everyone still says ‘Tappan Zee’ bridge not ‘Mario Cuomo’.
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Some perspective:
Zohran Mamdani and Abigail Spanberger, both victorious in yesterday's US elections, offer two competing visions for the future of the Democratic party. His background is affluent and highbrow; her parents were a police officer and a nurse. His worldview is just the combination of blame-Israel-and-America-first third-worldism and modish socialism you'd expect from a child of privilege; she, while decidedly liberal, is far nearer the political center of gravity and, for instance, supported Trump's bombing of Iran.
Mamdani has never really had a career outside politics; Spanberger was an operations officer with the CIA, giving her credibility on national security, as well as a concrete sense of how the real world works. He, for all his genuine charisma, could never be elected outside a deep blue metropolis like New York City; she just won statewide office, and will succeed a Republican governor, suggesting her brand of politics has real crossover appeal. He openly embraces the "socialist" label, anathema to most American voters; she has openly called on Democrats to avoid it like the plague. And so on. In other words, Spanberger's model of political success is one that can and should be transferrable while Mamdani's victory only proves that any number of toxic views and associations can be overcome, if you have the good fortune to run against deeply compromised opposition in one of America's most left-wing cities.
