Zohran Mamdani elected mayor of NYC and I honestly do not care at all

Looking around various feeds and even my own personal social media on the rare moments that I bother to look at it I see that something that conservatives are all up in arms for in their latest manufactured outrage is that Mamdani, someone that I probably never would have heard about if it hadn't been made a big deal of, has been elected the mayor of New York City.

He is Muslim and a lot of people have been complaining that he is a socialist which of course gets turned into communist by people with political blinders on.

I don't have any idea what the guy is like but one of the main reasons that I don't allow it to bother me is because I have absolutely nothing to do with NYC, and I don't want anything to do with NYC either!

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Aren't people tired of everything political being shoved down their throats all the time? I didn't really even know who he was running against until my news feed got fixated on the guy but it is my understanding that he beat out Andrew Cuomo for the job and honestly, does anyone actually want that guy as the leader of anything anymore?

I have a few friends that live in NYC and I haven't asked them what they think of Zohran and they haven't been very vocal about it either. Sure the news is going to be able to find some very passionate and perhaps a bit nuts people on the streets when they want to sensationalize the news a bit but one thing that gets me about the manufactured "panic" from the right about this is that is it really a big surprise to anyone that ultra-left and blue no matter who NYC elected a blue guy?

This is like the left getting upset that Montana elects a conservative that wears cowboy hats or that a place in Utah elects a Mormon. Of course they are going to do that.

I also find it sad and funny at the same time that depending on the news source, they are really rubbing it in that Zohran won and this is somehow a loss for Trump and Republicans. I don't think anyone with any sort of sense actually thought that a conservative was going to win the mayoral race in NYC.

We also need to look at the fact that no matter how great or how terrible this guy ends up being, that it is going to have exactly zero impact on my life down here in North Carolina, nor will it have any effect on a vast majority of anyone, anywhere. Unless you live in NYC, why do you care who they elect?

I've grown rather tired of the "us vs. them" of politics that seems to just completely consume a lot of people's existence and we only need to go so far as the Elk's Lodge in my city of New Bern, North Carolina to see how ingrained this has all become: Many of the boys that I enjoy a coupla cold ones with a few days a week are super upset that this guy won but I normally will kind of suggest they shut the hell up about it.

What happens in NYC doesn't have any impact on our lives here in New Bern and it is only because of media manipulation that anyone is elated about such a victory or that people down here or really anywhere outside of NYC would be thinking that the sky is falling because he won.

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In my mind, it is just ridiculous that a Republican even bothers to run in NYC kind of like how it makes very little sense to waste money on a Democrat running for office in Oklahoma - you aren't going to win. These particular places had their party lines drawn quite some time ago and the only thing that stands out in my mind is how the heck did Rudy Giuliani manage to win his mayoral race back whenever the crud that was?

For the angry conservatives out there, let me put your brainwashed minds at ease with a little information here. If you must politicize everything just know that if Zohran does anything other than absolutely kill it at his job, that it's kind of a losing situation for him. His proposals of making things free don't work, and I don't know how they possibly can work, then it's a win for anyone who thinks socialism is a bad idea. I don't even know if the guy is really seriously considering socialist policies and even if he does try to implement them, its not like it is going to affect anyone that doesn't live in New York City. If any of his stuff fails on the other hand, the media will do their usual game of either highlighting the crap out of it if they are conservative and completely ignoring it if they are liberal.

I think that everyone out there that is losing their minds over this needs to take a step back and realize that maybe, just maybe, you are being manipulated by the media. How can people not see that? Already people are blaming Sliwa, the Republican for "siphoning votes awayfrom Cuomo." Give me a break! Cuomo is one of the most disliked politicians in recent history, he defeated himself by running as an independent.

So what do you think internet-land? Do you care that NYC elected a very left-leaning mayor? Are you at all surprised by it? If so, why?

To me I feel as though most people probably have enough things to worry about in their lives that they actually DO have some control over and it is simply a complete and total waste of time to get all worked up about something that they have no control over and also stands very little chance of affecting their life at all.