Posted on 11/22/2025 7:51:45 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
For many young Americans, the 2008 financial crisis was more than a downturn; it was a defining life event. Families lost homes to predatory mortgages, jobs vanished overnight, and college graduates faced bleak opportunities. For organizers like Gabe Tobias, watching low-income immigrant families lose everything to adjustable-rate mortgages was transformative. The crisis convinced many that capitalism itself was stacked against working people, a belief that would later fuel their political activism, the Wall Street Journal reported…
Polling shows that socialism resonates strongly with younger Americans. A YouGov survey this year found 62% of people aged 18 to 29 held a favourable view of socialism—an unimaginable figure during the Cold War. For many, the ideology is less about Marxist theory and more about housing, healthcare, and wages. As tenants’ rights organizer Genevieve Rand put it, “Why should I care about saving democracy if it can’t provide me a home or food I can afford?” This practical framing has broadened socialism’s appeal and pulled it into the political mainstream.
Mamdani, who won the Democratic primary for New York mayor in June, represents the culmination of nearly two decades of grassroots work. His charisma, use of social media, and ability to mobilize immigrant communities mattered—but so did the seasoned network of organizers forged through crises, campaigns, and movements since 2008. His victory signals that socialist politics is not only viable in America’s biggest city but potentially ascendant.
…Groups like the DSA Fund are now focused on governance, not just winning campaigns. The goal, they argue, is to turn electoral victories into durable policies on rent control, healthcare, and climate. For Tobias and others, Mamdani’s rise is “just step one” in a longer fight that began with the trauma of 2008 and continues to shape America’s political future…
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Country shopping is alive and well under the current system. There’s literally NOTHING requiring them to stop trading with any country, or to prevent them from just moving to another one, verses actually repatriating. And the issue is not trade, as much as it is offshoring of our factories. Tariffs, alone, can possibly indirectly affect that, but nothing is being done to DIRECTLY stop offshoring. You appear to have no plan, other than to decry the generic word globalism, while simultaneously and hypocritically giving those actually responsible for it a free pass.
Trump is the man, our last chance. Fools like you do not see it. What we need is strong nationalism plus capitalism. That and END ALL IMMIGRATION FOR 50 YEARS. Trump is giving us a chance.
Tariffs promote domestic industry and raise revenue. The proof is the last 50 years of almost no tariffs at all. We got offshoring and deficits. Tariffs and the lack of tariffs cant do the same thing. One on shores and the other doesn’t. Get it? No you don’t. So don’t bother responding.
All I see is still skyrocketing prices, on everything, while companies who are making tens of billions in profits laying off tens of thousands of workers at the same time. No wonder the younger generation of voters is ready to give socialism a chance, as absurd as that seems to us. Was the President himself not toasting and praising an avowed communist in the oval office on Friday?
Tariffs are a tool, but a weak one, in how they’re being implemented. It’s been chaotic, to say the least, and focused more on targeting countries, than the multinational companies that are offshoring. They will just continue to move their operations to the next country, verses bringing it back home. Right now it’s the logistics companies, and the consumer, being hit harder than these multinationals.
Ok it will take time to correct the damage globalist traitors did to the USA. This is the last chance and the forked tongue free traitors are ginning up fear. I say f u.
It would have been simple, to say, if your company has a factory ANYWHERE outside the US, then all of your profits from that factory will be taxed at 50% (what he put on China, alone).
That would have made it clear, NO factories outside the US are likely to be profitable. And it’s taxing the globalist COMPANIES, not the shippers just doing the logistics who are getting hit now. If the consumer starts getting hit, then maybe lower it from 50%, but make it clear NO foreign factories, no matter where they are, are exempt.
Instead we got a huge variety of BS that goes up and down like the wind, and isn’t hurting the actual globalist manufacturers in the least.
After further thought, let’s say the policy should have been 80-90% tax on profits from ANY foreign factories owned in any capacity by US multinationals.
That still leaves them with a profit. But it’s a tiny one, that may not justify being offshore anymore. And, they can’t just move to some other country that has favor with the President, like say Saudi Arabia. Either bring it home to America, or pay 90% taxes on their profit.
THAT is a policy that would actually help reduce globalism. The one we have now is just punishing everyday Americans with higher costs at the grocery/store, while the multinationals just reshuffle their deck overseas.
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