I need someone to explain to me exactly how Mamdani manages to sidestep the very bureaucracy that other politicians always blame for their inability to get anything done.

[adrianco@mastodon.social]

@Strandjunker Other politicians are being paid to not make things happen by big donors. Eventually they may get to Mamdani, but for now he seems to be relatively unencumbered.

[stevestreza@indieweb.social]

@Strandjunker He appointed actual "get things done" types rather than favors for donors. He made a task force to find the bureaucracy and reduce it. He's been talking to people for a long time to understand where their pains are. And he is very popular.

[dhd6@jasette.facil.services]

@Strandjunker being kind and listening to the civil servants goes a long way, in my short experience as an elected official

[donaldball@triangletoot.party]

@Strandjunker @petrillic Well I mean he is a city executive with a friendly council so there’s a ton he can do in the city by fiat and very little he can do beyond without hitting those bureaucracies.

But credit to him – he’s using his executive powers very actively and creatively in ways that should embarrass most big city mayors.

[edgeofeurope@mastodon.social]

@Strandjunker If I explain it to you like you are in kindergarten, Trump could understand it. Maybe we want to avoid that.

[gmarcosanti@mastodon.uno]

@Strandjunker cocaine?

[steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co]

@Strandjunker Some people make excuses for their bad behavior. The Mothers of Invention had a motto ready-made for them decades ago: "We're Only In It For The Money."

[disorderlyf@todon.eu]

@Strandjunker My guess is a lot of his appointments to other roles aren't also milquetoast. It'd explain why so far the only things he hasn't done are things he needs the Governor to sign off on.

[cyberwitch@goingdark.social]

@Strandjunker once upon a time, politicians were supposed to have charm and swagger and general likability. Mamdani is bringing it back

[sleepy62@social.vivaldi.net]

@stevestreza @Strandjunker

!!

"He appointed actual "get things done" types rather than favors for donors. "

Im perpetually disgusted by how incompetent most of our politicians are. So when one breaks through who actually WANTS to make government work we are shocked and amazed.. and it seems like it not actually that hard. You just effin get on with it!

[stevestreza@indieweb.social]

@sleepy62 @Strandjunker I get your point, but in many ways, this is what the system is built to produce. If you require politicians to solicit donations, then you incentivize corruption.

[thelegendofthrill@mastodon.online]

@Strandjunker he sidesteps by just wanting to do good things for people. Everyone else was just lying.

[thestonedonkey@beige.party]

@cyberwitch one can only hope!

[slyence@mastodo.neoliber.al]

@Strandjunker balancing a budget is easy when you rob Peter to pay Paul and hard when you try to actually balance a budget

[tomcullen@mastodon.social]

@Strandjunker bad men do bad things

[biggangforevery1@mastodon.social]

@wonka @Strandjunker

People have been so beaten down and denigrated it's normal to figure everything is basically impossible. No expert can just speak, they must introduce themselves, their credentials and accolades before they even attempt to make their point. some kind of paranoid pre-buffer to any push back.

Politicians that would do something nice defeat themselves in the same way, telling themselves they don't know enough, they need to defer defer defer, ultimately just wasting time.
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[skyluke@bolha.us]

@Strandjunker Because they think they are being paid to be a figurehead instead of actually do work in figuring out the bureaucracy to make their constituintes wishes true.

[numodular@c.im]

@Strandjunker He's not engaging and amplifying, as a political position of power, in one of the wealthiest cities in the world, by causing more polaric vacillations via an overextended #duopoly. He wisely supports the #sustainable middle - #DemocraticSocialism - and appeals to the greater majority of BASIC HUMAN VALUES!!!

[zimzat@mastodon.social]

@Strandjunker On the extreme: Austin Texas is an example of a place that tries to do some good and then the state government spends their biennial sessions undoing and banning anything they did or might do.

If the New York state government was against it they'd be preventing everything he's doing, instead they're actively helping him (ex: balance the budget). If Cuomo was still governor they probably would be antagonistic.

But yeah, "bureaucracy" is shorthand for "boogyman".

[dxzdb@mastodon.social]

@adrianco @Strandjunker The record low murder rate is the one that seems like magic. Maybe just giving people hope?