General Discussion

I do appreciate the OP's question. I have viewed Goldman favorably. I believe he is competent, ethical, moral and well-intentioned. My answer to the question is that we are at a moment of existential crisis in this country and we need to replace people who are simply competent and decent with people who will fight like hell to save our country. Goldman gave some good speeches, but he seemed to fit right into the status quo crowd that has come to dominate the old guard of NY politics.

The candidates that Mamdani endorsed all won by HUGE margins. And I would point out that the old guard of New York lost many seats in 2024, So that begs the question of what it means to be "left" or "center".

"Left" of what? The old guard (with help from Republicans and other RW organizations that we aren't allowed to name here) characterized Mamdani and all his associates as "socialists", "communists", and "leftsts"

But if they are so "left of center", how do they win in landslides of 60-30? How does a "radically left of center" candidate like Platner win 70-20? By definition, the candidate that gets 60% or even 70% is obviously directly in the center of what the public is feeling, It is the losers who are out of line, far away from the center.

We are at a moment in our history when the people are outraged. They are angry about the concentration of wealth and power. They are angry about the massive criminality that some Democrats don't seem to want to even fight. They are angry about AI, inflation, data centers, the cost of housing, day care, health care, the Iran war, the Venezuenlan atrocities, Greeenland and the loss of our Constitutional form of government, All these things. Candidates that brush these things off deserve to lose.