“I Wish Australia Had Politicians Like [This American With The Exact Same Politics As 2019 Bill Shorten]”

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Zohran Mamdani has been elected mayor of New York by landslide, in what can only signal a return to democratic socialist politics for the Democrats.

The 34-year-old is the youngest mayor in the city for more than a century. He rode to a comfortable victory on a wave of discontent over housing stress and cost-of-living issues in the city.

The handsome young migrant has disrupted the status quo, by not only spruiking the exact opposite of Donald Trump's politics - but also shattering the political paralysis of the Democrats, who hated the fact that he got rightfully pre-selected through a grassroots campaign.

Mamdami's victory has shown the world that maybe Bernies Sanders could've easily beaten Donald Trump in 2016, and that perhaps the Democrats have been wasting everyone's time and money by offering voters nothing more than 'the lesser of two evils'.

Among his proposed policies are a rent freeze, free buses, city-owned grocery stores and a $US30 minimum wage.

His political victory is being felt right around the word, especially in Australia, where left-wing social media addicts don't seem to understand that Mamdami's politics are basically the same as your standard right-wing Labor MP, or maybe even a Turnbull-era moderate Liberal.

Right across Australia today, groups of enlightened progressives are saying that they wish our country had politicians like Mamdami, who ran on a platform that Australians wholeheartedly rejected when Bill Shorten was Opposition leader.

Australian voters, including many of the same people who are now relishing in Mamdami's victory, rejected Bill Shorten's policies that aimed to eradicate tax loopholes for boomer wealth hoarders – and dismantle the Australian property pyramid scheme by scrapping negative gearing benefits.

His commitment to economically progressive policies that would aid both the working class and younger Australians were dismissed as ‘retiree taxes’ by a hysterical political establishment that were terrified of having their generational wealth diluted by a fair and sensible housing correction.

Six years later, the Labor Party eventually got themselves elected under a new leader, but now must contend with extreme economic distress, and a full blown housing crisis that could’ve been avoided with the type of long-term vision that was dismissed as leftie rubbish in 2019.

Bill Shorten became a household name during the Beaconsfield mine collapse, where he fronted the media as the national secretary of the Australian Workers Union, who stayed on the scene for two weeks until they had rescued the survivors who were trapped one kilometre underground.

His experience in navigating public emergencies also probably would’ve come in handy during the bushfires that ruined Scott Morrison’s reputation, and the subsequent pandemic that ruined Australia’s economy.