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Posted on 11/03/2025 9:35:28 AM PST by DFG
An elderly Chinese immigrant who swam for eight hours to flee the country's communist regime said she is appalled that her children are casting votes for Zohran Mamdani in the New York City mayoral election.
Song Ying, 72, believes her two grown sons do not see the perils of the democratic socialist candidate's far-left policies, which she described as alarmingly reminiscent of the circumstances she risked her life to escape more than 50 years ago.
'Socialism has been a disaster,' Song told the New York Times. 'Everything I've seen and experienced points to that. It breeds laziness and kills the motivation to strive.'
Song embarked on the risky journey from Shenzhen, a small fishing village in China, to Hong Kong in 1976 to evade the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), led by Chairman Mao Zedong.
She was one of the millions of refugees from mainland China who made the grueling trip to Hong Kong, then a British colony, between the 1950s and 1970s in pursuit of a life free from hunger and oppression.
In 1978, Song and her husband came to America and settled in New York City's Chinatown.
With less than $200 in their pockets, the couple worked tirelessly to create the life they had dreamed of. Song became a reporter for a Chinese-language outlet, and her husband founded a telecom business.
Their sons went on to receive prestigious college educations, with one graduating from Cornell University and the other from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Song, who is a three-time Donald Trump voter and cast an early ballot for Andrew Cuomo in the mayoral election, told the Times that her children are 'Ivy League types,' well-intentioned but naive.
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“...her children are ‘Ivy League types,’ well-intentioned but naive...”
Just like the children of so many White conservative parents. Academia is still a Leftist cesspool and that is true of over 96 percent of universities coast to coast. Charlie Kirk was a threat to Leftist dominance on campus.
How in the world did the New York Times print this? She’s against everything the Times stands for?
Fifty years ago, I had a classmate in college who had escaped to Hong Kong from mainland China by swimming for hours, along with her parents and her sister. She was a devout Christian who had nothing good to say about communism.
“escape communism”
???
Or, in reality to get welfare living.
The USA is in a weird situation.
Not true.
Peer pressure from other Chinese and the FBI should investigate to see if their peers got them involved with the CCP
:: Not true. ::
Like a fox.
Got some media attention, eh?
“Ivy League types,’ well-intentioned but naive”
Tell me again, what is it that greases the skids to Hell?
I tire of people excusing their terrible ideas, and even worse deeds (100 million people killed by Leftist governments in the 20th Century) by saying, “Well, at least I had good intentions!” As if people with opposing ideas have inherently bad intentions.
My God! Given the record of depravity, starvation, murder, and misery that Socialists (Communists) have perpetrated on humanity with their “Good Intentions,” maybe we don’t need good intentions!
It’s very much their strategy.
Recruiting children from wealthy influential families.
Indoctrinate their children knowing that the combination of their prestigious education degrees and the family’s influence and connections will eventually put them in positions of power.
I feel for this woman! Thank heaven my kid turned our conservative and so are her children. I didn’t have to strangle any of them! (Just kidding, for the permanent record and the Chinese spies!)
The media focuses on Madmani’s socialism crap, which is a diversion. Madmani’s real focus will be filling as many government positions as possible with Muslims.
Ignorance on parade hobos voting the Gravy Train is on the way
Mamdani said so he wouldn’t lie to us why would he.
The have a mind like a steel trap closed.
Photographic proof that mrna injections cause brain damage!
If she is 72, she experienced the Cultural Revolution and saw firsthand how the Communist Revolution plays out. Its bloody-minded mob terror, pure and simple.
Some people have to learn the hard way. Communism sounds good on paper but ends in the ancient form of Government—a few rich people on top and a lot of miserable, oppressed people doing all the work and fearful of a knock on the door. Mamdani will get to try his ideas out—His Free Bus rides will see the system fail, his City Markets will be as empty as the ones in the USSR were.
She was only nine when that happened. She says democrats are acting exactly like the Maoists did.
And what they’ve done to our military bases and ships is Cultural Revolution. Put names of leftist heroes in. Remove names of those you hate.
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