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Posted on 08/20/2025 5:15:38 AM PDT by MtnClimber
“Democratic socialists” have been getting the teenage-idol treatment from giddy reporters and editors at legacy media outlets for years. Their newest crush is on the jihadi-apologist and Marxist New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani.
In a 4,500-word cover story about the candidate, “The Meaning of Zohran Mamdani,” Time magazine paints a caricature of a well-meaning, authentic, and not-really-so-radical go-getter. An “ideologue interested in creative solutions” is how Time puts it. Sure, Mamdani might support genocidal rhetoric, but the Jewish community will be pleased to learn that he “often talked about the problem of antisemitism and the need for anti-hate-crime funding.”
Is Mamdani, as many would have it, a generational talent whose campaign should be mimicked nationally by Democrats? For me, it’s difficult to see much “meaning” in the trope-ridden rhetoric he offers. “I think the most important thing,” the candidate, who, like most socialists, is a child of privilege, notes, “is that people see themselves and their struggles in your campaign.” Deep stuff. His “creative solutions” entail fresh ideas like rent control, a policy Mamdani benefits from personally that was instituted in 1943.
While journalists are mightily impressed, the truth is that Mamdani is running in a hard-left city against a gaggle of unlikeable, corrupt has-been Democrats. Much like Rep. Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), his fame is propelled by his radicalism and youth. Neither of them has passed a single consequential piece of legislation, come up with a new idea, much less a solution, or delivered a memorable speech.
Anyway, as one commenter pointed out, New York City is already something of a “socialist” city, with 40% of its residents living in rent-controlled apartments, 600,000 working for the city, and another 600,000 working for nonprofit groups largely funded by government.
You may recall that elegant gown Ocasio-Cortez donned with the slogan “Tax the Rich” written on it at the 2021 Met Gala, where guests selected by Vogue’s Anna Wintour ponied up about $35,000 a pop to hobnob with the rich and famous at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Well, the top 1% pay about 48% of New York City’s bills, and .01% pay nearly 31%. New York’s top 1% pay a combined 52% top tax rate, the highest in the country. The top 10% of earners paid about two-thirds of the city’s income tax revenue. In 2023, 41% of taxes were paid by millionaires, who make up about 4% of the population.
Technically, socialism entails the state controlling the means of production and distribution. “Democratic socialism,” on the other hand, entails young people demanding that others pay for all the benefits of the market system they pretend to detest.
And there is no doubt that “socialism” is gaining popularity and normalization, especially among the young. A recent poll by the Cato Institute and YouGov found that though 59% of Americans still had a favorable view of capitalism (41% unfavorable), 62% aged 18 to 29 had a “favorable view” of socialism. Then again, more than a third of young people hold favorable views of communism. Do they really understand that 100 million died trying to make it work? Maybe. .....SNIP
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They may get it good and hard in NYC.
I’ve noticed it’s the young kids that gravitate towards this. The next couple generations are screwed.
The lazy love it.
No, it’s astroturf and magical thinking by the media who are socialists and want ti normalize socialism, just like sodomy and all their other weirdness.
“I’ve noticed it’s the young kids that gravitate towards this. The next couple generations are screwed.”
They have been indoctrinated. The younger generation, in general, sees the government as the solution to all their problems. Ironically, they dislike politicians and don’t trust the government.
I guess the quest to have all your needs met by someone else leads to that kind of cognitive dissonance.
The current crop of youngsters are the most capitalist and Christian in 100 years.
Been article after article about it.
All the propaganda and wokeness has backfired.
“I’ve noticed it’s the young kids that gravitate towards this. The next couple generations are screwed.”
College professors have done an excellent job indoctrinating our youth into an ideological concept that throughout history has never worked and killed tens of millions in the process.
No, and those that try to enforce socialist policy WILL find out. The producers still outnumber the gimmidats.
Most don’t look at history or understand where these “isms” came from or what they’re really about, and the schools want it this way. Instead we are taught that socialism and Marxism are popular ideas and it’s hip to follow them. But the Marxists themselves don’t explain how it actually works, just how awful everything else, like capitalism, is.
Communism is merely socialism with guns.
The problem is that hardly anyone realizes that most of the other people in his "in-group" of champagne socialists or hardcore Marxists are likewise "passing."
Regards,
Their Third World Immigration Invasion isn’t is popular with Americans that they think it is. Georgie Soros has to pay those maggots you see on TV carrying silly signs and kissing miggy butts.
Churchill had something to say about this almost 100 years ago. Something along the lines of when you are young, it is expected that you would favor socialism…but as you got older, it would be expected that you would favor conservatism.
He said it a lot better than I.
Define “Socialism”.
Many think it’s the smartest people in the room, making all the big decisions for “The Greater Good” (The Greater Good).
“Socialism” to most people who view it favorably is the equivalent of “gimme free stuff and have the “rich” pay for it.” Its a justification for voting themselves money so that they don’t feel guilty about it. So they dress it up in class struggle.
It is the ignorant and unwise — “the young kids” — who are enraptured by the promises of this Siren’s call
If the majority would vote for this, Deep State wouldn’t have to steal elections.
“Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess. They always run out of other people’s money.”
Margaret Thatcher in an interview, This Week Thames TV, 5 February 1976
Sure they do...they’re still living off mom and dad...that’s their socialism.
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