chapotraphouse

I'm tempted to read your comment as unproductive and pithy, but assuming some amount of good faith (which you seem to be denying your comrades who may reasonably disagree with you) I'll give it a decent response.

It's not very normal from a "be normal" standpoint in terms of electoralism as a strategy among genuine comrades. Of course the democratic party shouldn't be supported outright or unqualified, but some tendencies haven't given up on entryism and, no matter how fruitless you or I think that is, are pursuing it as a genuine strategy in an attempt to increase the platform and legitimacy of socialism in the US. Continuing to cast unfair characterizations on those efforts and the most visible example of such efforts BEFORE the person has even been elected is wrecker shit at worst and bordering on sectarianism, or doomerism at best and catastrophizing before having the empirical evidence required to make a decent judgement.

Turning Mamdani into an ongoing struggle session isn't going to to do shit except make comrades who are working within the DSA resentful of you for your ultra sounding ass throwing out comments from the peanut gallery without visibly putting in work yourself. You don't like Mamdani or his association with the democratic party outright, fine, whatever, we've all heard that by now. Continuing to point to every picture as a damning indictment of entryism before the candidate has even gotten into office is declaring defeat too early on purely epistemic grounds, though, and calling the experiment a failure before it's concluded. That doesn't seem particularly helpful to anyone to me. I notice you didn't engage with that point, the crux of that comment's argument, at all. So hopefully recentering that can help you stay on focus for more productive dialogue with your comrades.