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.
the other person is giving you pretty biased information. there are two parties. primaries are elections to select who each party will support for a given election. there is one for each party. so the democratic primary for a senator would be an election between several people, usually democrats but they arent required to be, and the winner gets to run in the election for the position. the purpose of this is to prevent splitting the vote, which is a major flaw of first past the post elections.
who votes depends on the state due to differing election laws. usually you vote in the primaries of your party, so all democrats could vote in the democrat primary. some places you dont need to be affiliated and could even vote in both primaries, and some people actually do that.
there is disparity in views partly or maybe mostly because of us only having two major parties because of first past the post. you can be a democrat and rub shoulders with both socialists and corporate stooges, or you can be a republican and support fascism and worse fascism. being a democrat is the lesser evil for a lot of people, so you end up with basically everyone even a little left leaning in the democratic party or at least trying to work with them. the diversity in left leaning people in the democratic party causes lots of problems and infighting, usually with corporate democrats ultimately in control of the party working to make sure nothing actually happens that their corporate donors didnt tell them to do.
the significant thing here is that the democratic socialists, a group within the democratic party, has historically been heavily suppressed by the corporate democrats leading the party. stuff like them blocking bernie from getting the presidential nomination in favor of hilary even though bernie was much more popular. the fact that mamdani got elected at all was a minor miracle, and now 3 more democratic socialists got elected with his support. in theory it represents a shift in the party and voters, but time will tell if we can build on this momentum. given the state of the rest of the country its an uphill battle.
i hope this was helpful. im sure some people will come out of the woodwork to tell me im wrong and spew some propaganda or another. politics is kind of fucked up here right now…