Mayor Zohran Mamdani has moved swiftly to reshape City Hall, issuing an executive order that revokes all directives signed by former Mayor Eric Adams after September 26, 2024 — the date of Adams’s indictment.
Mamdani framed the move as a defense of working-class New Yorkers, though he did not provide specific examples of policies affected.
You assume those processes were ever democratic to begin with. The truth is that they’ve been rigged against the common people since they were first written.
I’m all for following the rules, but we can’t ever put the rules before people’s lives and wellbeing. If the law is unjust, you have a duty to disobey it. This includes legislative gridlock engineered to stifle progress and thwart the will of the people.
The idea that rules are less important than lives is exactly a part of the process that causes things like the war on terror.
Unjust rules should be broken, but rules should not be broken just because lives are at stake.
Basic rights > rules > lives
A whole hell of a lot more democratic than one mayor deciding things. I’m from Chicago, I’m well aware of issues with the process. But I think you’re overstating it to say it’s wholly undemocratic