I wholeheartedly agree that "It's not politically wise" is often a bullshit excuse.

However, when you are an openly socialist mayor in the process of overhauling numerous aspects of city laws and regulations, opening a war on additional fronts is risky. The US public is tired of more of the same, but that doesn't mean we live in a post-Red-Scare society.

From what I understand, he's focused on improving conditions in NYC to demonstrate that the policies and theory are effective and accumulate some public wins. If he doesn't play nice in the meantime, national Democratic leaders might find ways to prevent him from getting many victories in NYC.

Similarly, going to war with the NYPD would likely lead to them purposely doing a shit job to make him and his policies look bad. Police unions have done it multiple times. Again, he's looking accumulate good will first so that the public will stay on his side when the NYPD pulls that bullshit.

Normally, I'm in favor of organized labor... but using that power to protect corruption, racism, and the capital class basically makes them class traitors so get no sympathy from me.

No, no. When the country is even more in shambles, that’s when we’ll have the right where we want them. In this day and age of nearly instant information and social isolation you really gotta look to a time when newspapers, word-of-mouth, and rumors were the glue to a social hierarchy that was barely trying to remove slavery from its scaffolding. That’s what you really need to imitate, the past where brown people paid the heaviest price for not rocking the boat too much. Remember: Think of how much it upset the 1800s popular white vote, pay no attention to the popularity of progressivism, and don’t. rock. the boat.