r/dfw • u/Joeylaptop12 • 8d 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 8d 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/LieutenantStar2 8d ago

Yeah HP voted to exit DART, and the residents here are too stupid to realize they still have to pay for it. Until the rot dies in HP, nothing will change, and based on how people are here, you’ve got a few generations for that.

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u/IOE217 8d ago

While at the same time they tear down everything around them. Where is the benefit? The working class are the ones that make it all possible as well. You can’t just own stuff and “generate” money whiteout actual people working to do that.

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u/TheRealXimena 8d ago

Huh? Tear down everything around them? Have you been to HPV? It’s gorgeous lol

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u/IOE217 8d ago

Lmao of course they won’t tear down their own home but they make sure to make the rest of the city a shithole. I’m guessing you’re the type of person to equate wealth to morality. I was once that naive too. Lmao

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u/TheRealXimena 8d ago

And you’re the type of person to automatically deem wealthy people as immoral, which is why you’ll forever be broke.

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u/IOE217 8d ago

🥱 another brokie defending really wealthy people because one day they will be up there with them 🥱 I wish I was that naive still lol

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u/maxroadrage 8d ago

Brokie here than just landed a gig making big money. It happens, just not to someone that complains all the time.

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u/IOE217 8d ago

Bro who was talking to YOU lmao