After New York City’s race for mayor catapulted Zohran Mamdani from state assembly member into one of the world’s most prominent progressive voices, intense debate swirled over the ideas at the heart of his campaign.
His critics and opponents painted pledges such as free bus service, universal child care and rent freezes as unworkable, unrealistic and exorbitantly expensive.
But some have hit back, highlighting the quirk of geography that underpins some of this view. “He promised things that Europeans take for granted, but Americans are told are impossible,” said Dutch environmentalist and former government advisor Alexander Verbeek in the wake of Tuesday’s election.
Verbeek backed this with a comment he had overheard in an Oslo café, in which Mamdani was described as an American politician who “finally” sounded normal.
So it turns out Jeff Bezos hasn’t been funding the Antifa super soldiers like musk said? =P I am shocked, Next you are going to tell me George Soros isn’t a bastion of liberalism either!
But in all seriousness. The vibe i am getting from overall media in the Us is that some leans “liberal” and some leans “conservative” but they all protect the interests of billionaires or are downright owned by them.
This is pretty much my view on it. For the most part, the way they may lean “liberal” would be on the margins, maybe something like identity politics. Anything that might mess with oligarchs’ money or question something like our relationship with Israel is usually out of bounds.
I didn’t start really paying attention until the early 90s, but it’s been more or less like this as far as things I’ve noticed. Chomsky says similar things going much further back in relation to the corporate media. Movies like Network lampoon it…
I don’t think it’s been getting any better - with deregulation and consolidation, it seems to be getting even worse.