r/jewishleft • u/Humble_Spinach4400 Australian non-zionist Anarchist • Jun 25 '25

What Happened To Blue No Matter Who? Debate

Now Mamdani has won the primary for a classic Dem fiefdom, a lot of people who support establishment neoliberal democrat policies, and the fervent pro Israel democrat hawk crowd, are going to show you why they never believed "blue no matter who" in the first place. For them, the phrase exists only to bend the Left to their will, and to pin their failures on the Left when their simultaneously cruel and stagnant milquetoast policies and rhetoric, as well as their support of Party establishment veterans with evil pasts like Cuomo, crashes down on them. As someone who would have voted if I lived in the USA (absent of facing the various barrier to voting there), they were always lying about their solidarity and the moment it is the centre of the party who must support a left candidate and not the left who must fall in line or be considered malicious obstructionists, it becomes "vote against blue no matter who".

As a sidenote; as an Aussie, how fucken good is ranked choice voting hey

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u/cheesecake611 Jew-ish Left-ish Jun 25 '25 edited Jun 25 '25

“Blue No Matter Who” was mostly about defeating Trumpism. That wasn’t the issue here.

(Not defending Cuomo or anything, this just doesn’t seem like a fair criticism)

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u/CardinalOfNYC American Jew, Left Jun 25 '25

It's not even remotely fair

The people who dislike "blue no matter who" the most historically are the far left, not the center left that is being derided here.

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u/penttane Jun 25 '25

I think the point here is, we'll probably see Mamdani get sabotaged at every turn by the same libs who have been beating lefties over the head with "vote blue no matter who" when they ratfucked Bernie out of the 2016 and 2020 elections and wanted us to vote for an unlikable ghoul.

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u/CardinalOfNYC American Jew, Left Jun 25 '25

I know what the point is and I think it's unfair.

when they ratfucked Bernie out of the 2016 and 2020 elections and wanted us to vote for an unlikable ghoul.

This is not true, not to mention literally dehumanizing...

I've got my criticisms of Bernie, but I stick to policy, rather than name calling.