Posted on 07/01/2025 6:42:37 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
While the Democrat party mayoral primary in New York is stealing the headlines, those who have watched Marxist-Hegelian hybrid ideology overtake the party since the 1960s could have predicted this outcome.
Democrat voters in New York City have chosen Zohran Mamdani as their mayoral candidate. He is an avowed socialist Islamist who has never held a real job, gratuitously tosses around promises of giving away almost everything for free, has publicly stated his determination to defund the police, campaigned on tax-payer funding of “gender-affirming care,” and who vociferously defends all illegal immigrants, including those convicted of heinous crimes, from deportation.
Mamdani wants to empty the jails in New York, claiming that violence is an artificial construction. His commitment to socialist ideals is informed by his Islamic faith, which includes his refusal to retract or apologize for trafficking in incendiary antisemitic language such as “globalize the intifada” for over a decade in a city with two million Jews, second only to Tel Aviv.
Mamdani is not an outlier among the candidates for public office that an increasingly schizophrenic Democrat party is choosing. Instead, he is the 2025 prototype. A decade ago, he would have been soundly rejected by the rank-and-file Democrat voter.
The primary reason the Democrat party finds itself in its current predicament is due to demographic changes within the party. Gone are the ranks of blue-collar workers and much of the middle class that made up the bulk of the party’s base since the Franklin Roosevelt era.
Since the 1990s, this vital part of the base has been increasingly left behind and ignored as a new demographic group wedded to a hybrid version of Marxism/socialism combined with an oppressed/oppressor paradigm that began to assume a more significant role in the party.
The college-educated and higher-income cohorts of the...
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re: “Zohran Mamdani Represents The Democrat Party’s Inevitable Drift Left”
Well, which party does one think the devil has greater influence over in this regard ...
Why aren’t they delighted? Why aren’t they all enthusiastically promoting this guy?
Ilhan Omar is, isn’t she?
Fixed it for ya, Steve.
Someday we’ll look back and say Mamdani was so conservative.
It’s not a “drift”, unless you can call the Spirit of Australia racing to the finish line a “drift”.
Holds the world record for the fastest speed on water, achieving 317.6 mph.
Like he is making AOC and Bernie Sanders look now.
Bad news.
George McGovern was considered a leftist back in his day.
I wonder where someone like him would fit into today’s Democrat party.
I wonder if many New Yorkers are eager to go shopping at city owned grocery stores.
And if people think they’re going to have substantial savings at a non profit grocery store, they will be disappointed.
Also, they will be disappointed because odds are these city-owned stores are not going to have the a big variety of products available at a typical supermarket.
re: “Someday we’ll look back and say Mamdani was so conservative.”
Right now - he’s standing between us and the fire.
Some say he’s pulling on them, towards the fire while others say he’s pushing them away ... I think the former is the case though.
The all-consuming fire of communism.
” The Philosophy of Communism | Bishop Fulton.J.Sheen “
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_e6PUGrhtI
I suspect they’d cancel him. I believe later in life he admitted many (all?) of his liberal positions were wrong.
The Prophet with out honor, Joe McCarthy knew what was happening.
Sure, but he’s also thin, neat, young, and relatively articulate.
His ideas are nonsense, but he can put sentences together, something Biden, Harris and other Democrats had trouble with.
Another factor is vote fraud in the Democrat primary elections. But the Democrat establishment could not call this out without risking their fraud operations in the general election. So the party got taken over by neo-Bolsheviks who think any tactic that gives them power is legitimate.
Don't forget, WV used to be a blue state.
yes and no
the problem is more than this guy’s communism (as terrible as that is, would be for NYC)
the problem is also his rabid (anti-Americanism, anti-Christianity, anti-Jewish) hostile attitudes, hatreds antagonisms
he a twofer —— you get both the red and green dangers all wrapped up in a single package
no wonder so many good people are rushing to get out of NYC as fast as they can
He won't be able to hide those characteristics.
Another POS nobody trying to capitalize off of Trump’s name.
He’s a communist nazi - everything the democrats celebrate.
For some of us with a strong stomach and have been reading the Democrat message boards over the years, this isn’t the least bit surprising.
The kooks and crazies have taken over the urban areas and college towns, starting in 1960 and our country is worse because of this political phenomenon.
The good news is a bunch of old white liberals will be dead before 2028.
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