Parts of Fateh and Mamdani’s platforms would be difficult to execute without cooperation from their city councils.

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    Absolutely nothing about what FDR passed was socialist. FDR’s policies were capitalist concessions to labor in order to stave off actual revolution, which was a legitimate threat in the 30s, and was never intended as anything more than that meme of paying someone $100 to fuck off.

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      Social Security

      Farm subsidies - Agricultural Adjustment Act

      Many job creation programs

      Unemployment benefits

      The New Deal - there’s a reason why the GOP and every right wing think tank has spent massive amounts of money and decades of effort to destroy it.