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I meant to say Dems ARENT popular.   Often passion takes over and distorts my posts....😢

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Actually, you just made my point. AMLO was the Mayor of Mexico City.  Obviously the biggest city in Mexico.  That gave him a big lab to experiment in.  It also gave him legitimacy when he said I want to take the show to Broadway now.  Many of the things that have worked on the Big Stage were things he tried in Mexico City:  old age pensions, social programs.  Mamdani wants free child care and city-run grocery stores.  Sounds crazy!  Sounds socialist!  Is it crazy?  Ask AMLO.  AMLO left Mamdani a very specific playbook on how to pull this off as a Mayor.  Mamdani is a smart and eloquent guy.  I hope he reads the playbook.  I can see why his schtick on affordability worked - especially if the alternatives were Cuomo and Adams. Speaking of New York, it is questionable who likes Rudy Ghouliani more, Trump or AMLO.  Back in the day, Rudy was America's Mayor, and he was tough on crime.  People loved it.  AMLO hired Rudy to help him develop a zero tolerance for crime policy in DF.  People loved it.  Point being that AMLO grew up in a poor part of Mexico and has always been intuitively good, better than Trump even, at understanding and playing to the centrist sensibilities of the working class.  Take notes, Democrats. These days I joke with some friends and family members that I am the fucking problem.  If you need to understand what is wrong with Democrats, blame me.  I am a liberal Democrat.  I am college-educated.  But I would not describe myself as a woke liberal Democrat.  My biggest mentor, my college professor Paul Wellstone, wrote the textbook on how to overturn a Republican lock on the Senate (in Minnesota) by being VERY attentive to the sensibilities of the working class.  It was intuitive for him.  Tim Walz, who represented the purple district I went to college in and also went to Camp Wellstone, could write the same textbook.  Although, in my view, Harris/Walz 2024 was a bit too woke.  Where the fuck were the White men, other than Walz's own son in that wonderful tear jerking moment?  Did we REALLY need that commercial on toxic White males?  Who, by the way, said FUCK YOU I'm voting for Trump.  They should have had moderate Democrats who were White football players and were trained by Coach Walz everywhere, singing the fucking national anthem. I think that would have helped. So as I just indicated, I am not a woke Democrat.  As far as I am concerned, it is open season on woke Democrats.  Which is a problem.  Because Mamdani also kind of sounds like a woke Democrat to me.  So we'll see.  But his challenge is to figure out how to focus on working class affordability, while he actually manages a city well if he wins (my advice:  make deals with billionaires to promote affordable housing, like AMLO did), and IF he can avoid falling into the woke bullshit traps that have badly hurt Democrats. It's on us, Sis.  I have always been proud of you.  I think we can do it!  😀

Who the hell knows.   Even if one existed, Americans as they currently exist wouldnt allow that person to "flourish".   Take Mamdani for example.  Regardless what you think of his politics, the man has a plan, hes charismatic well spoken and likable.   And young New Yorkers embraced him as a Dem leader....  But everyone else attacked him and wants to hold him down.    They rather have people resembling spineless GOP self-serving puppets..     And he's just a local leader wannabee.   Leaders on a national level are even harder to break thru.   Regardless, truth is The Dems are popular with Americans.  Perhaps its because they are currently hobbled, and thats not their fault.   But they ARE guilty of whining and pearl clutching and talking down to Americans.   They need to get out of their OWN way !