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I think it's significant for US politics because it shows a modicum of class consciousness in a large population of the US. People understand that there are people out there that we call "landlords", "billionaires", "oligarchs", and they are the enemy. NYC has more people than about 4 out of 5 US states, and they unambiguously chose someone that proudly calls himself a democratic socialist and that seems to be because they like his platform and his rhetoric. 20 years ago, socialist was probably the worst political insult and a complete thought terminator. We are not politically dead anymore and that's kind of exciting.

Personally, I think social democracy is a dead end because the rate of profit is now too low, and my understanding of democratic socialism is that it starts with social democracy and graduates to democratic socialism when the government does enough stuff , so I don't think it will work, but if it does, I will be happy because I think it is the easiest path. So people don't want the status quo anymore. They want what we want. If social democracy can't give it to them, some of them are going to choose revolution over putting their hope for a better future away. People want social democracy because the system is not providing for the basic material needs for too many people. So we should try it, and if we actually try to fix the system but the system can't be made to provide basic material needs for people, the system does not work and must be replaced.