New York City Mayoral Election 2025

For the past few months, I was paying serious attention to the mayoral election of our beloved New York City. Staying thousands of miles away from the city, I was trying to make sense of Zohran Mamdani, Andrew Cuomo and Curtis Sliwa's point of views on wide range of issues that affects NYC. I was watching debates, reading news articles, polls, political analysis and pretty much everything pointed out that a vast majority of New Yorkers are favoring Mamdani this time around.

To be blatantly honest, I am no fan of Mamdani. I can go on and on talking about my takes against some of the issues that he mentioned as his election agenda. However, I do not intend to dwell on our ideological differences. New Yorkers has spoken and they elected their Mayor which we all should respect and now work together to fix issues that matters the most to all of us.

It is pretty well known that the New York is a blue state and it's residents predominantly votes for Democratic candidates in elections. Be it general, primary or any kind of special election, Democratic party candidates heavily dominates in our beloved state. This is particularly true for New York City over any other major cities within the state. I mean, if you simply look at the list of previously elected Mayors of this city, that alone should give you some sort of clear idea on who are calling the shots here.

On a persona level, I am an independent voter and I honestly do not care much about political parties. Candidates and their agenda matters to me more than their political affiliations. Perhaps this is where I tend to differ from many of my friends, family members and neighbors. I realized, party politics is not for me as I grew sheer bitterness on this idea altogether many years back. In fact, politics in general does not quite excite me.

I personally distaste watching political discussion or debate for that matter simply because it turns ugly real fast. The discussion starts with real issues and then eventually people turns to each other attacking personally rather than truly focusing on the most important subject matters and that is, how to serve people and their interests. Eventually some crooked individual gets elected and then they begins serving their political donors and special interest group's purpose. That is pretty much what we all have witnessed for decades if not more.

In any case, like always I want to focus on the brighter side of politics where elected individuals will keep their promises and really work for the people and the society as a whole. In politics, divide and rule policy is quite old and if still someone fails to realize this, it's their own baggage to carry and own journey to find the end of the tunnel to see the bigger picture.