If you don't bother to vote you can't complain about Mayor Mamdani

With early voting less than a month away in the city’s messiest mayoral election in decades, plenty of New Yorkers feel like throwing up their hands.

Disillusion is understandable, but common-sense voters can’t afford to sit this one out.

The side that turns out wins.

The extreme left is winning because it recognizes the power of organizing.

“To be an unorganized socialist is a contradiction in terms,” Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani said after winning his Assembly seat in 2020.

For the Democratic Socialists of America, winning a spate of elections in 2020 was only the beginning. They looked ahead — and organized.

After Mamdani and his fellow radicals took their seats in the state Legislature, the city’s DSA chapter created a Socialists in Office committee. The SIO met weekly to