It’s fairly safe to say that if enough people vote for Mamdani to elect him, they will likely get what they least expect.
One sure thing they’ll find out in the future...there are many ways to get TO socialism but only ONE WAY back out of it.
The same can be said for the good people of Venezuela, assuming their elections were honest.
There is the saying: “You can vote your way into socialism, but you might have to shoot your way out”.
My recollection of history is the extreme liberalism migrated from NYC to California and turned it from red to blue, and since then has blossomed to the disaster of today.
If NYC’s adventure in to socialism/communism moves west to California, then northward up the coast, we as a nation are screwed.
Whatever he enacts involving money, it would be wise to follow the dough, and monitor the sizes over time of his personal accounts.