Thank you for this. My daughter is a New Yorker, a Muslim, and a member of DSA, and has volunteered many hours on the Mamdani campaign. As you say, the rhetoric around it has become gross and absurd, but when I listen to Anna or Mamdani himself, all I can see and feel is hope. I'm glad you and yours see and feel that too, and I hope people are right when they say the national democratic party could learn something from this campaign. A national commitment to hope for people who don't see or feel any would be most welcome.
Thanks to your daughter for her help with that campaign. I think that hope comes in part from having a bigger political and social imagination — that government can make the lives of citizens better and help to create a vibrant city not just for the wealthy. What a thought.
Thank you for this. My daughter is a New Yorker, a Muslim, and a member of DSA, and has volunteered many hours on the Mamdani campaign. As you say, the rhetoric around it has become gross and absurd, but when I listen to Anna or Mamdani himself, all I can see and feel is hope. I'm glad you and yours see and feel that too, and I hope people are right when they say the national democratic party could learn something from this campaign. A national commitment to hope for people who don't see or feel any would be most welcome.
Thanks to your daughter for her help with that campaign. I think that hope comes in part from having a bigger political and social imagination — that government can make the lives of citizens better and help to create a vibrant city not just for the wealthy. What a thought.