Earlier this year, Rabbi Schlanger also invoked the biblical story of Amalek to justify a genocide occurring to Palestinians. There are better Jewish voices to highlight through Hanukkah than a man who abandoned the lessons tied to the loss of our family and actively worked to spread violence.

I wonder how many of those voters decided to stay home because of the poor response to flooding that occurred this spring to Buchanan particularly vs Trump not being on the ticket. The dropoff was so severe could be a policy backlash.

The trend also seems to be representatives willing to speak against corporate powers in Virginia. A lot of message against Dominion Energy and Data Centers. Question remains to be seen if the more moderate members will deliver on these ideas? If they don’t, the pendulum is going to continue to swing

I think the results showed decent strength for Mamdani in progressive Jewish NY neighborhoods. The points where he was weaker in Jewish neighborhoods than Cuomo were places like Borough Park which are historically very conservative and Cuomo would not have retained that support in a general.

Ok by your definition they are leftists. I consider leftists to fall under the concept of progressive ideology. On the other hand Neoliberalism is a regressive ideology. I prefer to label them what they actually are.

You didn’t ask a direct question. You asked sarcastically in bad faith under the assumption that the state-wide candidates that won are neoliberal center-right candidates which is not aligned with reality.

Jay Jones is a attorney general option who was the anti-utility monopoly candidate (dominion energy donated $800000 to Taylor) and won pretty decisively. It’s a clear sign that voters want more progressive actions to protect against corporate greed.

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I have my doubts that immigration will remain a positive issue for very long. Democrats are starting to finally counter message in the last month after years of ceding the space to right wing rhetoric and the approval has shifted already from a +16 issue to for Trump.

US Social Security was created alongside a progressive tax policy called the “soak the rich” tax in 1935. The tax also funded the creation of the FHA (public housing) and mass work relief programs that built long term infrastructure (foundations for our parks).

Taxing the rich is exactly how America originally created generous social programs in the aftermath of the Great Depression during the new deal era. It’s also incredibly popular in the US (a Fox News poll had it at 70% approval in 2019).

The idea that we should remove environmental laws and private companies will create the supply is a short-sighted and an ahistorical view of what happens in the aftermath of deregulation in any industry.

Austin and Tokyo are only seeing prices go down due to population losses. Vienna and Singapore are examples of not relying on private partnership since over 50% of people live in public housing that is government owned which is what I am advocating for.

I'm not saying we should abolish private ownership just how we should be more bold on how we pursue public housing at the federal level. The housing shortage is a national security vulnerability and programs should be mobilized to address this problem (including using the military).

What are these examples you are citing for lowering costs? Private sector involvement is always going to make a project more expensive because private sector always has a higher cost of borrowing and they apply transaction costs and operating costs to drive profits for themselves.