Posted on 11/05/2025 8:31:56 AM PST by re_tail20
Zohran Mamdani's victory reveals middle-class frustration with broken promises, not an embrace of far-left ideology
Zohran Mamdani just became mayor of New York City, a self-described socialist leading America’s most capitalist city.
To some, that sounds like proof that the far left is taking over.
But that’s not what happened.
Mamdani didn’t win because New York suddenly fell in love with socialism.
He won because he captured something every politician should be listening to right now — a deep frustration that the system doesn’t feel fair anymore.
And here’s the twist: That frustration isn’t confined to struggling families or low-income voters. It’s spreading among people who are doing fine — the educated, ambitious, upwardly mobile professionals who were supposed to be living the dream but can’t shake the feeling that they’re falling behind.
The New Rebellion of the Comfortable
There’s a growing class of New Yorkers who don’t fit our usual political categories. They’re not the working poor or the wealthy elite. They’re somewhere in between.
They’ve done everything right — the schools, the hours, the hustle — and yet they still feel stuck.
Rents climb faster than salaries. Taxes eat away their paychecks. Buying a home feels impossible.
They’re not broke. They’re just burned out.
They’ve stopped believing that hard work automatically leads to stability, let alone success.
My business partner, Michael Maslansky, very cleverly calls them the Richlanté, rich vigilantes of fairness.
They don’t want handouts. They want honesty.
They don’t trust the system, but they’re still trying to make it work.
Mamdani saw them before anyone else did.
He didn’t talk like a career politician; he sounded like someone who actually understood their frustration.
New York used to run on ambition. It was the city of hustle, where, if you gave everything, you could climb.
But that...
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He won because there was no competition...
Occam’s razor: if you have two competing ideas to explain the same phenomenon, you should prefer the simpler one.
Simplest answer, idiocy.
“Taxes eat away their paychecks. Buying a home feels impossible.”
If they think the new mayor will make this better they are in for a rude awakening.
Mamdani will fail and blame Trump ,LOL
(Mamdani) won because he captured something every politician should be listening to right now — a deep frustration that the system doesn’t feel fair anymore …More fraud denial.
Anyone who lives in New York City and complains about the cost of living is a fool.
It was always insanely expensive to live there.
I turned down a bunch of job offers there over many decades for exactly that reason.
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One anecdote—I was talking to a recruiter for a large New York investment bank who had a job offer for me.
I told her “move to Texas and then we can talk”.
Her response: “I hear that a lot.”
He promised free stuff.
This clown spoke this morning about law and order and that all law breakers will be held accountable. When he emigrated in 2018 he lied on his Federal gov’t form as told by retired emigration officials. Trump may have Mami by the cajones for breaking Federal law when he lied to emigrate. Its a felony. He needs to be held accountable.
Most political revolutions of the past couple of centuries have not been led by people who come from abject poverty nor by people from the wealthy elite. They’ve come from somewhere in the middle - people who have realized that no matter how well they’ve played by the rules they’ll never be part of the wealthy elite due to lack of connections, luck, or whatever else puts and keeps those in power there. Being part of a revolutionary vanguard is a potential short path to another elite for such people, or at least something that gives them some sense of agency. The specific ideology they subscribe to in the process doesn’t really matter.
“They don’t want handouts.”
He ran on giving handouts ...
If there was ever a perfect illustration of what “from the frying pan into the fire” means, this was it.
“I don’t like the sound of ‘ese ‘ere ‘Boncentration Bamps’”
Yyyeahhh. Just one question, Chief. Who's been making and breaking these promises in New York?
SOL, Chuckie Shroomer, Bill DeBlahblahblah, Andrew Coomo, Michael Bloomberg, Al Sharpton, Hitlery Rotten Clinton, Charles Rangel, must I go on? They all promised the same Utopia that Imamdani promises. There's just one small problem. The very word "Utopia" literally means "no such place".
He won the early voting and mail-in ballot cheating vote.
R’s won the election day vote.
I just read the excerpt, but my take is that, honestly, he’s basically saying that, to a great degree, he was elected for the same reason Trump was.
Dunno. Perhaps some of that plays a part. Certainly there was a segment that just liked his personality and smile.
“He promised free stuff.”
This.
Costs are out of control. He was the only person to at least adress it. and claim he can “fix it”.
It won’t work. But, he at least made that his platform.
You can not add MORE taxes on everything, then expect prices to go down. BUT, that is what he’s selling. And people are willing to try it.
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