And then what?

Unless he taps into that anger and uses it to overthrow the political interests aligned against him, he won’t be able to do anything. They’ll just be mad and march around, but no real change will occur.

The Black Panthers existed.

But I notice you skipped over all the other things he could be doing, but isn’t, because he’s just doing electoralism and has no politics outside of it.

Not really, if you read the article it only defines political violence as violence that isn’t done by the state:

That figure underscores just how much the spate of attacks — from the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk earlier this year to the attempts on President Donald Trump’s life in 2024 — have rattled the nation.

In addition to Kirk’s killing and the attempts on Trump’s life, there was the gruesome attack targeting former Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that left her husband, Paul Pelosi, with a fractured skull in 2022; the assassination plot against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh that same year; the plan to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in 2020; and the firebombing at Pennsylvania Democratic Gov. Josh Shapiro’s residence earlier this year.

In June, former Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were shot and killed in their home by a man impersonating a police officer in an attack that Gov. Tim Walz (D) called “politically motivated.” The man accused of killing Hortman and her husband was indicted on federal murder charges. His case is still pending.

Etc etc.

Political violence has been with us long before politicians started getting shot, but political motivations didn’t count before because it was the government doing it.

There’s already political violence, it’s just that we don’t count political violence when it’s done by cops, national guard, or border enforcement.

Is it a fucking secret? Why would any of this be happening behind the scenes? We should have an idea what else they have going on! It would be the height of stupidity if they were engaged beyond electoralism but they kept it in the dark so no one could find out.

He’s not just one man. There’s an entire team of people behind him and an army of volunteers, and they all seem to be solely focused on the election. What I want to see is for him to focus on his role as merely the electoral front of that larger organized effort, he focuses on the election and the rest of the people around him have plans that extend beyond and outside of elections. That’s not what I’m seeing.

My expectation is, once the election is over, they’re going to go home and forget about politics.

We’ll see.

It’s the only thing I see him doing. I don’t see him organizing workers or tenants and helping them unionize. I don’t see him distributing mutual aid. I don’t see him engaged in mass education. I don’t see him arming the poor and training a people’s army.

The electoral part is the only part I see him doing, and the only part I see his supporters doing.

Again, I’d be happy to see him prove me wrong.

Actually I think Marxist-Leninists and Black Maoists and anarcho-communists all have good ideas.

I’m really a centrist if you think about it.

I think he’s going to run into a brick wall with the city council and police union and organized business leadership when he tries to do any of the things he promised. They’d happily destroy New York if it meant kneecapping the DSA from making any progress.

I’d vote for him if I lived in New York, but I wouldn’t expend any other energy on his campaign.

Well.

It depends on your tax bracket and property values, doesn’t it?

On the one hand I’m farther to his left and am critical of some of his campaign decisions, and am not optimistic about his abilities to overcome the capitalists through purely electoral means.

On the other hand I’d be happy to see him prove me wrong.

They are planning to round people up by the millions and are doing it based on skin color and language. They’re putting them in concentration camps, with plans to build many many more camps to house all the detainees.

It’s an ethnic cleansing campaign.

It is, in fact, illegal for undocumented immigrants to own guns.

In his defense, I’m baffled too! Dems usually cave immediately.

I really hope this means they’re becoming a real opposition party.

ICE is ethnically cleansing the country literally right now.

I think the inability to communicate makes road rage worse, actually. Simple matters that could be solved by a quick comment become rage inducing because there’s literally nothing you can do about them.

Hope is for people who want to sit around doing nothing while they wait for things to spontaneously get better all on their own.

It’s still not comparable to Italy or Greece, because the US prints its own money while Eurozone nations can’t.

The real problem is less that the US is accumulating debt and more that it is destroying demand for dollars with sanctions. If China doesn’t want USD anymore then every dollar still on the market becomes less valuable.

They thought they were white.