I’d personally be way more excited about Mamdani if he hadn’t called Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships at a time when the US is ramping up aggression in the region. It really feels like helping manufacture consent and capitulating to the US empire. I hope he does a lot of good for y’all, but I personally don’t trust him as a latina living in Latin America.
idk, from what I can find he only issued the statement calling them dictators after answering questions about those countries talking about the horrible things the US has done to them like the embargo on Cuba and the extrajudicial killings of Venezuelans Trump’s been doing in which he didn’t directly call them that.
I could definitely be reading too much into it, but it feels kinda like he’s effectively saying “yeah, they’re dictators because the US keeps interfering in their affairs”
I get that, I hope you’re right, but it’s still a disappointing statement coming from a leftist. I have a hard time thinking he doesn’t know about Cuban democracy, but even if that’s the case, does he believe Cuba is less democratic than the US, where Bernie got screwed over by the DNC, where gerrymandering and overpolicing make some states red for perpetuity, etc?
I wanna be hopeful but AOC was a massive letdown so I’m skeptical. But if I’m mistaken I’ll be relieved. We all deserve decent politicians and policies.
I’d personally be way more excited about Mamdani if he hadn’t called Cuba and Venezuela dictatorships at a time when the US is ramping up aggression in the region. It really feels like helping manufacture consent and capitulating to the US empire. I hope he does a lot of good for y’all, but I personally don’t trust him as a latina living in Latin America.
idk, from what I can find he only issued the statement calling them dictators after answering questions about those countries talking about the horrible things the US has done to them like the embargo on Cuba and the extrajudicial killings of Venezuelans Trump’s been doing in which he didn’t directly call them that.
I could definitely be reading too much into it, but it feels kinda like he’s effectively saying “yeah, they’re dictators because the US keeps interfering in their affairs”
I get that, I hope you’re right, but it’s still a disappointing statement coming from a leftist. I have a hard time thinking he doesn’t know about Cuban democracy, but even if that’s the case, does he believe Cuba is less democratic than the US, where Bernie got screwed over by the DNC, where gerrymandering and overpolicing make some states red for perpetuity, etc?
I wanna be hopeful but AOC was a massive letdown so I’m skeptical. But if I’m mistaken I’ll be relieved. We all deserve decent politicians and policies.