That’s still a massive rise in the 18 to 24 year olds, plus big surge of 25 to 39 years. And a bit of a drop in the peak centered on 65 years old.
By my reading: It’s not as visually exciting as the first graph, but it’s telling much the same story. Just with fewer exclamation points. Whadyareckon?
It certainly makes it much harder to argue that “it’s those naive 18-24 year olds’ fault”.
Damage already fucking done, Kirsten, you asshole.
Dekalb is pretty solid blue, FYI…
This kind of thing is happening all over. Best I can figure to do with such people is to go ahead and hire them but record every move and report every discrepancy around them. They want an environment of heightened scrutiny so let them live it and by god throw the book at every one of them that acts up because certainly some of them will.
Advice for upcoming elections:
Despite the city’s history, voters in San Francisco have pivoted to the political center in recent years.
I think that despite a shift in the electorate that includes more wealthy techbros, San Francisco progressives still have a good chance if they can field more candidates that have a proven track record of getting stuff done. My impression is that a lot of SF voters have been frustrated by past elected officials not so much because they were too liberal but moreso because they were perceived as too ineffective at solving problems. And frankly, at least some of those criticisms were warranted.
The one “progressive” candidate that the Politico article specifically names as an example of someone who voters didn’t elect as mayor is a guy who doesn’t have a great record on building affordable housing. He’s actually got a reputation as being one of San Francisco’s most prominent NIMBYs who has blocked a lot of housing projects. He also owns 4 houses in the city and according to his financial disclosures is San Francisco’s wealthiest Supervisor. So maybe not a good comparison to Mamdani.
Oh no! He’s lost the support of India’s version of MAGA! Whatever shall he do?
I need more of this.
It’s interesting that the Mayor’s race has an international importance.
And knowing the cultural and religious factors in current NY is important. It’s no longer about say Irish and Italian immigrants. This is another wave that has changed the country. And that we need to listen to. Just like people would discuss the Pope’s effects on domestic politics.
Isn’t she guilty of the very thing Green is complaining about, though? She’s complaining about left leaning Tik Tok on her own left leaning Tik Tok (or YouTube, I guess). She’s spending almost 10 minutes talking about people on the left she disagrees with instead of spending that time talking about Trump’s bill and what he’s doing. I’d also love to know who these “authoritarian leftists” are she’s talking about. I guess anyone who she disagrees with is authoritarian. I dunno. Seems pretty hypocritical to me.
I think it’s the 5 (or whatever) tankies no one listens to anyway? I don’t know that the authoritarian left is much of a thing in America… no one is like “oh Stalin had the right of it” as far as I know, at least not anyone with any kind of influence…
I get what you are saying, but I think there is a bit of an internal Popper’s Paradox to that. If there are people within the group who are intolerant of a large subset of the group who disagree with them and seek to drive them out, then it’s ok, even necessary, to be intolerant of them. Otherwise, there’s no group.
That’s all it takes to completely destroy a group of 50-100 trying to work together to drive change. Heck, 2-3 of them could do it, if they are allowed to continue to be disruptive.
In terms of national political power, no. In terms of local and grass roots organization, hell yes, there are!
At this point I think tankies might be a fairytale that anarchists invented to scare their kids.
(edit: /s)
They are not, no. They exist and are real. People can be assholes in Amazing ways. There just aren’t that many of them.
Well, in the times of lennon (not lenin) there were:
“But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao
You ain’t going to make it with anyone anyhow”
Sorry, shoulda added a /s.