Posted on 08/09/2025 9:52:47 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Once upon a time, George Will was a conservative.
I'm not sure what he is anymore after his TDS drove him to vote for Joe Biden. Even if he didn't want to vote for Donald Trump, voting for Biden seems like a denial of everything he was before. It's certainly not a conservative position.
But what he said on Friday on HBO's "Real Time" with Bill Maher was in some ways even more surprising than that.
Maher and Will were talking about Democrat NYC mayoral race nominee, Zohran Mamdani. Maher went hard against Mamdani, saying he says "the things that communists say. I mean, he wants free grocery stores, free buses." But it was Will's response that was surprising... when he said he wants Mamdani to win.
George Will on Zorhan Mamdani: "I want him to win. I think every 20 years or so, we need a conspicuous, confined experiment with socialism so we can crack it up again."
pic.twitter.com/CRAJXm8HDv— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) August 9, 2025
"Every 20 years or so, we need a conspicuous, confined experiment with socialism so we can crack it up again," Will argued. He continued:
Socialists' slogan used to be, 'workers of the world, unite,' 'you have nothing to lose but your chains.' The new socialist slogan is, 'Trust us, this time it won't be a mess.' So, you know, when the post-war labor government in Britain was about to get started, one of their leading lights was a socialist named Aneurin Bevan.
He said, 'What could go wrong?' He said, 'We have a nation bedded on coal, surrounded by fish. It would take an organizational genius to have a shortage of either.'
In three years, they had a shortage of both. That's socialism.
I understand his point, that he thinks it will teach people who don't understand now.
The problem is that if Mamdani wins, it means a lot of suffering, and not just for the people in New York. Because of New York's importance, it's going to lead to more leftism infecting and hurting people. And it's silly to think it would be "confined." It's like a virus - if you let it live, it spreads.
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We don't need another example of socialism's failure - we already have had plenty of examples. When it fails again and they don't give up power, then what? It's real people, it's not just an esoteric "experiment" without consequences. Mamdani and others would argue away the bad results as the fault of someone else, just as we saw Biden do. People on the left will believe it, just as they fall for whatever pablum the left pushes now.
Wanting Mamdani to win is similar to voting for Biden rather than Trump - a bad idea all around and not well thought out.
We have to fight radical leftism's rise whenever it rears its ugly head.
Idiotic. Obviously doesn't live in New York. https://t.co/7NxKFj29Uk— Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) August 9, 2025
This is like trying out “just a little bit” of glioblastoma, and the total destruction of New York City is not a faculty lounge thought experiment.@WCdispatch_ @ConceptualJames— dcbsky (@dcbsky) August 9, 2025
Editor’s Note: Zohran Mamdani is an avowed Democratic Socialist and has a real chance to become the next mayor of New York City.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
- H. L. Mencken
Sadly, a few people here when I lurked in the 1990s said they would vote for Bill Clinton because he would be so horrendously bad that even the most ardent Dems would admit the Dem Party had to be destroyed.
Ha. He won re-election and was the most popular President at the end during impeachment and scandal. People loved him.
Unfortunately, failure in government only gets more of it. George Will is an idiot.
I get his argument, but it’s predicated on the idea that if it’s bad enough people will learn from it. That dynamic has had a very uneven track record. And how bad does it have to get before it’s bad enough? Put another way, how much does a New York City in ruins going to cost the rest of us? Because anyone who thinks the damage can be localized is shatteringly naive.
Give NYC to ISIS in exchange for peace.
I'm not sure what he is anymore after his TDS drove him to vote for Joe Biden... But what he said on Friday on HBO's "Real Time" with Bill Maher was in some ways even more surprising than that.
…Well, have plenty of big cities already being driven into the ground by socialists masquerading as Democrats: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Chicago, Detroit, Cincinnati, Memphis, New Orleans… What makes Will think that New York City (already on its knees) under Mamdani will finally bring everyone to their senses?
when you’ve mastered the art of projection as the democrats have, there are no lessons to be learned.
He has always been an arsehole.
I've seen several Freepers say the same thing. They want Mamdani to win because...
1. It will demonstrate the failure of socialism.
2. It will punish New Yorkers for voting Democratic.
i thought we did that little experiment with deBlasio- just a few short years ago. NYC needs to be put under a conservatorship if in is amnesiac dumbed-down woke state the city chooses ZM.
They could always show documentaries of socialism and what it does to kids in school.
I understand that idea. On the other hand, it could lead to really bad things.
George Will was NEVER a Conservative, he was just able to talk the talk for his wallet.
He’s always been nothing but a lying stinking little dweeb peckerwood.
A paid actor like all the rest of them.
My vote of “aye” for lie of the century.
Once upon a time, George Will was a conservative. …Oh yeah? When, exactly?
Will became a snob at some point.
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