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[–] [email protected] 6 points 17 hours ago (2 children)

See Zohran win in NYC.

Why? The headlines on lemmy made me think that he is the good candidate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago
  1. He was running against someone that was
  • famously forced out of office for corruption a few years ago
  • running on a party platform that was uninspiring and brought Trump back to power in November
  1. He ran a really focused campaign on lowering cost of living and income inequality
  2. He's smart, charming, and authentic - and that motivated a lot of people to campaign for him
  3. He released a fire track about how dope is grandmother is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQVsVNPkPmE
[–] [email protected] 5 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Yes he's wildly popular.

The DNC is considering not giving him the nomination regardless of his win of the primary.

Andrew Cuomo is running independent with his Super PAC that raised billions of dollars.

Bill Ackman is offering billions of dollars to anybody who can ensure that Zohran cannot win. Admittedly this last one's a bit of a stretch since this dude's also a trump supporter.

These are examples of the DNC not getting out of its own way.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

The DNC is considering not giving him the nomination regardless of his win of the primary.

The Democratic National Committee does not decide State and Local nominations.

They can't even "refuse to nominate" for congression races. The only power they have is dictating the rules for the US Presidential Nomination.

Other than the Presidency whoever wins the primary is the nominee under state laws. Otherwise they could've just "refuse to nominate" AOC (which they had no legal power to do btw).

Their main power is mostly just money to buy propaganda. If people can just be smarter and ignore the propaganda, they could take over easily. The only reason the establishment maintain their power is because the people allows them to keep their power.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

Yes if people could ignore the propaganda the world would be a much better place.

Too bad the literal function of propaganda is to sway people's opinions for people who don't give a fuck about politics.