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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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Those are the socialist. i.e. the basement dwellers. Young working persons resent socialism because they know it means less reward for their hard work.
You’re just a middle class, socialist brat
From a suburban family and you never really had to work
And now you tell me that we’ve got to get back
To the struggling masses, whoever they are
You talk, talk, talk about suffering and pain
Your mouth is bigger than your entire brain
What the hell do you know about suffering and pain you dumb f___?
Oingo Boingo - Capitalism
I published 57 articles in the paper and magazines. I wrote a proposal to author a column for the “Tallahassee Democrat” where I proposed to provide comment and commentary on the Republican side of political issues. The editor’s response was shocking. She reacted like she was being confronted by a dangerous lunatic. She explained in what I’ll describe as a first-grade teacher’s voice that they only allowed their reporters to wrote on sensitive topics. All of their reporters had been to college so they “knew how to handle” political issues. Someone who had not been through college couldn’t possibly understand the intricacies of complex political issues. I think this explains why “the media” thinks socialism is “popular.”
Most of the media lives in a bubble and echo chamber. They project and normalize their own biases and extremism. Socialism is just one of MANY examples of this.
This brand of socialism is Marxist Communism.
Let’s be honest.
Are the brain-dead the standard bearers for the DNC?
Yes, yes they are....
Socialism, communism... all these ideas sound good to the self perceived have-nots, those feeling entitled to a free lunch.
They are usually losers.
Question, how did the “press” fair in the Soviet Union? Not well, not well…..
I’ve noticed it’s the young kids that gravitate towards this
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You can thank Academia for that.
Totally.
It is NOT and never WAS.
That's why their methods are SO crooked. No one in their right mind would voluntarily accept a socialist agenda!!
The popularity of socialism is based on ignorance. It goes along with President Reagan’s proverb:
Communists are those who read Karl Marx. Anti-communists are those who understand Karl Marx.”
Socialism does not, and never has, make good on the promises they make, because of a basic “flaw” in human nature. In a one-on-one match with a competitor, there is a zero-sum game, that you only get what you can take away from your competition. There is no building of more resources, no accounting of the best use of available resources, and definitely no allocation of those resources based on merit. Eventually, in this zero-sum game, the supply of “other people’s money” runs out, and something called entropy sets in, cannibalizing the system and eating all the seed corn. People are left with fighting over scraps.
Socialism does not, and never has, make good on the promises they make, because of a basic “flaw” in human nature.
“People like to own stuff.” - Frank Zappa
In the media yes, it’s very popular.
What exactly is your ‘fair share’ of what ‘someone else’ has worked for?
- Thomas Sowell
“Nothing is easier, or more
emotionally satisfying, than
blaming high prices on those who
charge them, rather than on
those who cause them.”
—Thomas Sowell
“One of the sad signs of our times is that
we have demonized those who produce,
subsidized those who refuse to produce,
and canonized those who complain. “
Thomas Sowell
“It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.”
Thomas Sowell
It’s easy being a communist in a free country.
Try being free in a communist country.
Thomas Sowell
It was Thomas Edison who brought us electricity, not the Sierra Club. It was the Wright brothers who got us off the ground, not the Federal Aviation Administration. It was Henry Ford who ended the isolation of millions of Americans by making the automobile affordable, not Ralph Nader.
Those who have helped the poor the most have not been those who have gone around loudly expressing “compassion” for the poor, but those who found ways to make industry more productive and distribution more efficient, so that the poor of today can afford things that the affluent of yesterday could only dream about.
Thomas Sowell
“When I was growing up. We were taught the stories of people whose inventions and scientific discoveries had expanded the lives of millions of other people.
Today, students are being taught to admire those who complain, denounce and demand.”
Thomas Sowell
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From others:
If you could reason with a liberal there would be no liberals.
If you could reason with a democrat, there wouldn’t be any democrats.
One of the hardest thing to do in life is trying to reason with a liberal
To anger a conservative, lie to them.
To anger a liberal, tell them the truth
“At the core of Liberalism is the spoiled child – miserable, as all spoiled children are, unsatisfied, demanding, ill-disciplined, despotic and useless. Liberalism is a philosophy of sniveling brats.”
P. J. O’Rourke
“An author and former prisoner: ‘Socialism of any type and shade leads to a total destruction of the human spirit”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Jut look at a kid born in 2000. He sees .gov bailing out banks, and throwing money at wall st during the gfc in 2008. TARP, etc.
Obamacare comes forward, because its a reaction of the higher costs of health insurance. Which doesn't fix it.
Covid mess is nothing but money rained down from heaven to people. Stimulus checks, etc.
We currently are picking and choosing winners in the economy etc. Just today, .gov want to invest our money into Intel, etc.
#11 Communists are socialists in a hurry....
BANG! BANG!
The kids think socialism means Denmark - free college, free health care, subsidized rent, and rich people taxed to pay for it all.
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