Posted on 09/22/2020 10:29:28 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
he Democratic Socialists of America are rising in power and influence as Congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez is not only a member but throwing congressional support behind them as well. They have set their sights on rapidly crumbling New York City, the newest third world nation, and if New Yorkers are careless with their votes this year, they just may get it.
Saul Alinsky has been dead and burning the the flames of Hell since 1972, but his dream of the Marxist takeover he fantasied about in ‘Rules For Radicals’ is now beginning to come true. ‘Rules For Radicals’ is a scary book, and in a different but equally chilling way, so is George Orwell’s ‘1984’. Separately they show the result of when anarchy comes into power, but together they show a future from which there is no coming back. These books are now merging before our very eyes, and I’ve read through to the last pages, it doesn’t end well.
The DSA document complains that the already liberal Council and mayor this year “merely moved [NYPD] money around” when they adopted the current budget following protests over the deaths of unarmed black men during interactions with police, including George Floyd in Minneapolis.
The savings from the police cuts could be used to prevent the layoffs of teachers, EMTs and firefighters or fund youth and social service programs to attack the root causes of crime, the DSA. said. DSA-member AOC has become the face of the Democratic Socialists movement in Congress and a national voice on the far left in American politics following her stunning victory over veteran congressman Joe Crowley in 2018. Her upset also forced Crowley to resign as chairman of the Queens Democratic Party.
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Im all for removing her bra and underdinkys
Hush, Child! You know not what you speak of.
Your ‘Squad’ still ain’t big enough.
Could eaisly see Staten Island breaking off if this goes too far.
Why tie yourself to two other lawless islands?
No specific plans for taxing the rich in general, but definitely for confiscating the property of landlords. It will be more disastrous for housing quality and availability than rent control. The government will hand out slum dwellings to its favored functionaries, and either let them turn into jungles, or establish brutal feudal control over them.
Uh yeah, you know the lyric “tax the rich till there aren’t no rich no more”? It ain’t just a lyric. Put your plan into law and the money will flee your jurisdiction. Socialism only works when you have people smart enough to create wealth yet dumb enough to let you get it. Good luck with that. How many people like that do you think there are?
I believe that like the other boroughs, Staten Island voluntarily joined NYC; it would seem that they could also vote to leave.
Now, if they can just figure out how to keep the rich from fleeing a deserted New York. The old Soviet Union had to put up walls to keep people IN. That is always the problem with socialists. How do you imprison those you want to control and rob? Most people want to keep the money they earn. What a concept !!!
The city cannot keep heat and hot water in its projects. The only reason electricity there is dependable is it is delivered by Con Ed. Imagine the housing catastrophe if private apartment buildings are confiscated like St. Petersburg and Moscow in 1919. Also those buildings provide real estate tax money. What happens when the eat tax money , not produce it ?
She seems to be making the mistake that Bernie Sanders never made: actually trying to bring her ideas to fruition. Sanders always stood there yelling into the wind, knowing no change toward what he advocated was happening. That continuously won him the support of his loyal followers without the reality of it all ever smacking them in the face.
Cortez seems to actually want to make her socialist nonsense into governing policy. Her mistake there is that if she actually succeeds in doing so, she will ultimately only succeed in destroying the base of support for her ideology once every becomes disillusioned with what the reality looks like. It’s all sunshine and roses and free ice cream when she talks about it. But it doesn’t work like that. In fact, in the real world, socialism doesn’t work at all. You can try to turn NYC into a hippie commune, but what you’ll get will be the absolute opposite of harmony and joy.
If that’s what has to happen to get people back to the reality that working hard (and smart) in a capitalist society is the best way to improve the lives of everyone, then so be it.
it never has “won” anywhere
Not to mention, it will cause something of a banking crisis, as most landlords are leveraged, with mortgages on their property, to maximize income.
Lock them all in and do it. Don’t let the rats abandon ship and escape from NYC. I would buy tickets to watch the streaming of them eating the liberal rich first and then each other. Fried Soros, though, probably would not taste very good.
Hope she runs for mayor.
Boston University alums must be proud and thrilled by AOC’s accomplishments since that bar-maid job.
As long as they seal off the perimeter of the city and let no one in or out.
We are going to need some new cool cities run by conservatives because the old cities are going to uninhabitable.
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