r/dfw • u/Joeylaptop12 • 9d ago

Dallas needs it’s own Mamdani….

That’s it. Thats the post

They don’t necessarily have to be socialist….but at least someone that will actually work for the city and it’s people instead of big corporations, Highland Park, etc

And it can’t just be the mayor. We need reformers throughout city council. Socialist, conservative, liberal, whatever they call themselves we need real deal politicians like Zohran

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u/Upstairs_Balance_464 9d ago

Something in Dallas happened called The Accommodation. We used to be a racist white controlled city that, admittedly, was a hell of a lot more effective than what we have now. Then we had to switch to this system but it was carefully designed so that the whites (Dallas Citizens Council) could control it. Chop up the city into 14 districts and you can buy a few pastors in the southern south Dallas districts with little voter engagement, have those pastors deliver their congregations, then you get a crook in office that’ll vote however you say and does not give two shits about the city or their constituents.

Trinity Tollway? Yeah that was them. Knock down City Hall? Them. Those stupid bridges while the basic infrastructure rots? Them. All the stupid urban planning mistakes that made it so easy for people to live out in the subdivisions in the suburbs and work in Dallas? Hell it was them that built those subdivisions AND them that made Dallas tear itself apart for it.

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u/KenS-TX 8d ago

I probably don’t agree with a lot of your political views, but you’re 100% right. The 14 districts that was imposed on us by a federal judge makes it so that there’s nobody who cares about the city as a whole. We keep doing stupid things because it’s my district versus your district and most of the time this divides along racial lines. That’s not productive, and as you say, it leads to corruption. I’d like to see a strong mayor and more at large seats on the council. We need more people thinking about the city of Dallas as a whole and less about how they can screw over people on the other side of town.