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A full 10% of NYC Trump voters turned around and voted for Zohran Mamdani.
So we went to talk to them.
These voters are done with the status quo. One New Yorker told us: "As Americans, we can realize it's not Republican versus Democrat. It's more of like a class war."
ananda
(34,497 posts)because it is tied to their ugly racism and bigotry.
leftstreet
(38,982 posts)Well, that doesn't sound so good now that I've written it
But DURec for any mention of Class War!
ananda
(34,497 posts)But Magats suddenly going socialist and both siding
Dems and Reeps really bothers me.
leftstreet
(38,982 posts)ananda
(34,497 posts)for everyone, bar none ... not just for ourselves.
leftstreet
(38,982 posts)patphil
(8,744 posts)It's both, and more.
Add to that the White Supremacist color of this war, and the misogynistic view point of the males in this movement, and the picture gets even clearer.
You not only have to be white, you have to be privileged white male.
Lower and middle class white males are the "useful idiots" in this war. They're necessary to maintain power and control exclusively in the hands of the ruling class.
And that ruling class uses the republican party to set the rules at the governmental level, so money power and control are all concentrated in their hands.
Aristus
(71,735 posts)face less punchable.
No luck.
Someone smack that little creep for voting for Trump. You don't escape consequence for that...