New York's Mamdani mumbo jumbo
... I’d like to talk about the dream house of Zohran Mamdani.Mamdani looks like a terrible candidate for mayor of New York, yet he apparently does have a shot at winning. If he does win, the city would be facing a form of liberal destruction. Questions should be raised about the sanity not only of Mamdani, but also of anyone who votes for him.
He was a successful Democratic Socialist candidate in the first round of the recent New York mayoral elections. He was a beneficiary of two phenomena that might suggest he has a 50/50 chance—more or less—to win the general election.
So we’re looking at the general election. But what’s funny about Mamdani is almost everything he says is a contradiction or not true. Now that he is the frontrunner, everybody is going back over his record and asking him questions. Did you say you want to defund the police? Once the police were refunded, under Adams, the crime rate has gone down. And he said, “No, I didn’t say that.” And then it’s become an internet phenomenon, listing all the times he did say that.
He said that he wished that billionaires didn’t exist. Does that mean that he wouldn’t want George Soros to fund the get out the vote groups and the activists who are actively supporting him? Will he come out and say, “George Soros, I wish you didn’t exist”? He says he is not a communist. OK. He’s a Democratic Socialist. But he says that the key to any “socialist revolution” is to seize or get the means of production. That’s right out of Karl Marx’s “Das Kapital.” So, he’s quoting communist dogma as a mechanism to gain political power.
He says he has a new agenda. A new initiative. A new policy. Turn the page in New York. But when you actually look at what he’s advocating, his ideas very old. He says he wants to have government-owned food markets, grocery stores. I think any of us who went to college in the 1970s knew that in every major university town—whether it was Berkeley or Palo Alto, in California or Santa Cruz—there was a co-op. And the co-op’s advertisement was, “We don’t make a profit.” But my remembrance of those co-ops is they didn’t last very long. They eventually went broke. The produce was no better than Safeway or Raley’s or Food 4 Less or Save Mart or any of the competitors. So, that is not new.
Giving free ticketing on buses and mass transit—the problem we have right now is that people have free access to the subway. They jump the turnstiles. But imagine how with his plan everybody, de facto, or de jure, would jump the turnstiles. So how is that going to be funded?
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Occurring far too late in life to be dismissed as a youthful indiscretion, Mamdani endorsed the Leninist goals of augmenting “class consciousness” and “seizing the means of production.” With the power he seeks, “we can . . . gradually buy up housing on the private market and convert it to community ownership,” he promised. He lavished praise on the Bolshevik putsch in Russia. He feted the Black Liberation Army figure Fred Hampton, a figure who “believed” in the “socialist revolution.” His model for a successful mayor is an explicitly communist revolutionary who helmed a “detachment of Red Volunteers” in India.
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And:
For Democrats, Mamdani Is a Wake-Up Call—and a Bad Example
He shows how the party is falling short, but he has the wrong solutions.
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