Posted on 09/11/2025 7:05:19 PM PDT by JV3MRC
Forget commemorating the thousands of lives lost on 9/11. The Economist is instead pushing readers to float the idea of socialism firmly being established as the left’s bulwark against Trumpism in New York. Talk about completely butchering your priorities.
In a crazy September 11 piece, the British magazine sought to downplay communist Democratic New York City Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s affiliation with the radical Democratic Socialists of America party. In “Who’s afraid of the Democratic Socialists,” the outlet was giddy over the fact that they could “prove to be the left’s populist alternative to Trumpism.” For Mamdani, The Economist tried to help his illusory “centreward” rebrand of himself by distancing him from the DSA’s nutty platforms like defunding the police and closing jails.
How did the outlet achieve this? According to The Economist’s spin, the DSA “no longer officially holds those positions.” No, you didn’t misread that.
The Economist instead tried to mainstream the DSA by promoting its new watered-down platform that was supposedly a departure from previously held positions like ending the “fictions of whiteness” and “public ownership of media”:
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Which socialist country is a role model?
Nope.
There's nothing like that.
Of course they did.
I would rather die than ever live in a socialist / Marxist state. Live free or die. Many feel the same way, and if the hateful ignorant left think the nation will roll over for them they have a very very big shock coming their way.
The left’s complicity with and embracing of Charlie Kirk’s death and other recent tragic events make it clear that we cannot live together. They are driven by hatred.
Bueller? Bueller?? Bueller???
It depends on how the question is being asked.
Any number of communes and cults have attempted to do so. You just can't make people stay if they want to leave and you have to obey the laws.
I don't think even one of them has actually worked for very long but if you want to try to be the first have at it.
I used to read the Economist in the 90s. They jumped the shark around 02 or 03. They’re obviously just gaia worshiping global socialists now.
“I used to read the Economist in the 90s. They jumped the shark around 02 or 03.”
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I had given up on the Economist shortly before you did, but it was a specific issue sometime about then that demonstrated they had lost it. They had a big spread in one issue then in which they pondered why the US in general was much more supportive of Israel than Western Europe. The ONLY reason they could come up with was that evil white evangelical Christian nationalists were in control of the government and public opinion.
No introspection at all. They never considered the effect of a millenium or more of strong anti-semitism in Western Europe, famous for its pogams, executions, purges, expulsions and more recently the gas chambers?
I lived in the UK for a few years. The Economist was a great magazine then, 40 years ago. Today it is left wing crap.
Stopped reading this rag 25 years ago. They are statists, globalists and neocons posing as free-market capitalists.
I finally figured out they are the voice of the rump British empire in London and Davos.
Central America
UK (You can watch THAT debacle in real time)
N Korea
Former Soviet satellites
Cuba
Greece
S Africa
China ...etc.
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