TREND, ECHO, FEAR & IGNORANCE:

 ""TREND, ECHO, FEAR & IGNORANCE: #PoliticsNYorkStyle""

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--By Uncle Bero (bold and brutally honest.)

There’s a strange human habit —almost an Olympic sport— that consists of #repeating whatever others are already repeating, without asking who said it first or why. It’s like living in a world where someone else’s opinion comes “#Mandatory   #WithAutoplay.”

— You hear a phrase, you repeat it without thinking, because someone said it… and that’s it.

And in New York —and among the not-so-New Yorkers who still act like they’re starring in the movie— that phenomenon is running wild with the whole Mamdani issue.

Because now, apparently, there are people hating the man before even meeting him.

— Not for what he’s done, not for what he’s said, not for what he thinks… but out of fear that —oh, the irony— he might actually turn out to be good. And if you look at it calmly, that alone proves our common sense has been on vacation for years.

Mamdani doesn’t imitate anyone. He’s not a cheap copy, not a remake, not a subtitled version.

— And that (in times when everyone wants to look like everyone else) is almost suspicious… almost offensive.

That’s why they prejudge him: because he doesn’t fit the recycled mold of the textbook politician.

— But without being whatever they claim he is, the man brings a different energy, a mess he wants to fix, and a city that, honestly, has been running wild and on autopilot without batteries for quite a while.

Will he be a good governor?

Well, nobody knows. Not him, not you, not the people who already hate him from page one of the script. The only certain thing is: if they let him work, if they stop throwing stones in the road just for sport, then we’ll be able to see what he’s made of and what he can accomplish.

In the end, the problem isn’t Mamdani.

The problem is that childish habit of repeating what others repeat, without passing it through the brain’s filter. If we changed that, New York —and the rest of the world that wants to think like New York— would breathe cleaner air, less contaminated with recycled ideas and second-hand prejudices.

Mamdani, like anyone else, should be judged by #WatchHimWork, not hated for…

#WhatHeMightDoMay be.

— Only then will we know if he came to organize the disorganized, or if he was just more noise in “#TheCityThatNever ShutsUp.”