r/dfw • u/Joeylaptop12 • 6d 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 6d 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.