New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani flexed his political muscle Tuesday, getting a clean sweep as his three endorsed congressional candidates advanced to November’s general election, ousting two incumbent Democratic congressmen.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani flexed his political muscle Tuesday, getting a clean sweep as his three endorsed congressional candidates advanced to November’s general election, ousting two incumbent Democratic congressmen.
Defeatism is the catalyst of resignation. Resignation is the enemy of progress.
If movements get more successful the more support they have, then participating in hopes of success becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy: the more people hope, the more people stand together, the more likely it is that their hope will come true. It’s worth a try, because the more people try, the better their chances.
The Civil Rights Movement was fueled by pent-up frustration, catalysed into courage by hope, guided by cunning strategists. It didn’t achieve all its goals, and what it did achieve is being rolled back bit by bit, but it did achieve something. It took more than just hope, but without, it would have never taken off.
Hope is the antidote to defeatism. Allow yourself to hope, no matter how ridiculous it may look now. Better to hope and be wrong than to despair and be right.