Now I know a country is not the same as a city, but my country, the Netherlands, is small and densily populated, so maybe they’re somewhat comparable?
I hear Mandami is considered from extreme-left to what he professes himself as democratic socialist, which to me would mean left-wing. I however keep pushing every US politician one or two positions to the right, but that’s just vibes. So I would like to compare his stances to at least five political parties from my country, but where do I start?
Should I post an ask Lemmy on each topic how they compare to Mandami starting with housing? Because I would imagine the stances of each party on just one topic would already make quite a long post.
Are there any European countries who have implemented a state owned grocery store? Or have a minimum wage of €25/hr? Or implemented a city wide rent freeze (not just rent control)?
Not saying it in a bad way as a lot of his policies are great, coherent, and well thought out, but calling him only slightly left of center is a heavy exaggeration especially when you have the UK going pretty far right on anti trans movements, Italy with their only first trimester abortions, and France with their anti face covering policies
I’m going to agree with you here.
I put Mandami left of center until I rethought
on what I often see and hear from the center-left,
and words often used by the left.
“I don’t think we should have billionaires” sounds very much left-wing to me,
rather than center-left.
I’m not comparing him to European governments.
I’m comparing him to European political standards.
Maybe I am misunderstanding what you mean by “political standards” but if you look at SPD the German slightly left of center party.
They are pushing for a 15 euro min wage and rent control
Now compare that mamdani who is pushing for a 25 euro min wage and a rent freeze.
He took two policies that are being looked at by a left of center group and took them further to the left
Then if we compare the German left party they want to reduce taxation on basic food, hygiene, and public transit through a new wealth tax of 1% for people in possession of 1m euro or greater
Back to mamdani he wants to reduce the cost of food and hygiene products by setting up a state owned grocery store and to make busses free and to fund this he wants to use an income tax of 2% after $1m
So I would argue that he is solidly left wing