# NYC Mayor Discusses Democratic Socialism and DSA Disagreements

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119473630564512113
- Source account: [@OunkaOnX](https://x.com/OunkaOnX)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 0:56
- Published: 2026-11-09
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/F6gyvKy0kHlE/en/nyc-mayor-discusses-democratic-socialism-and-dsa-disagreements

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/F6gyvKy0kHlE/en/nyc-mayor-discusses-democratic-socialism-and-dsa-disagreements) Data center moratorium. These are the kinds of things that also characterize what we've been doing right here in New York City.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/F6gyvKy0kHlE/en/nyc-mayor-discusses-democratic-socialism-and-dsa-disagreements?t=5) And yes, I'm proud to be doing so as a mayor who's a member of the Democratic Socialist of America. Okay.

[0:09](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/F6gyvKy0kHlE/en/nyc-mayor-discusses-democratic-socialism-and-dsa-disagreements?t=9) Get rid of borders? No. Get rid of SCOTUS? No.

[0:13](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/F6gyvKy0kHlE/en/nyc-mayor-discusses-democratic-socialism-and-dsa-disagreements?t=13) Get rid of jails? No. So do you think DSA's gonna kick you out? No.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/F6gyvKy0kHlE/en/nyc-mayor-discusses-democratic-socialism-and-dsa-disagreements?t=17) It sounds like you're not aligned with some of the core things they really wanna get done.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/F6gyvKy0kHlE/en/nyc-mayor-discusses-democratic-socialism-and-dsa-disagreements?t=20) You know, when you go into a room and there are more than one socialist in the room, you will often find disagreement in that room.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/F6gyvKy0kHlE/en/nyc-mayor-discusses-democratic-socialism-and-dsa-disagreements?t=27) And what unites members of the Democratic Socialist of America is, in many ways, what has brought people into politics over the years, a belief in the dignity of working class people and the dignity that has to be a characteristic of their lives.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/F6gyvKy0kHlE/en/nyc-mayor-discusses-democratic-socialism-and-dsa-disagreements?t=39) And an understanding that democracy, for it to be meaningful, can't just be at the ballot box.

[0:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/F6gyvKy0kHlE/en/nyc-mayor-discusses-democratic-socialism-and-dsa-disagreements?t=44) It has to be in the rest of our lives from the workplace to every other aspect of it. Mm-hmm.

[0:49](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/F6gyvKy0kHlE/en/nyc-mayor-discusses-democratic-socialism-and-dsa-disagreements?t=49) And that's why I'm excited to be a member and that's why I've been excited also to deliver for New Yorkers.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/F6gyvKy0kHlE/en/nyc-mayor-discusses-democratic-socialism-and-dsa-disagreements?t=53) Well, a lot of that has to be done-