Posted on 10/30/2025 7:33:16 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
It’s one of the strangest spectacles in modern American politics. The high-flying professionals of New York’s white-collar class are now marching behind an avowed socialist, Zohran Mamdani. These are the same lawyers, traders, and tech specialists who once embodied the American dream.
His campaign thrives NOT in the boroughs where poverty festers but in luxury neighborhoods like Park Slope and Williamsburg, where median household incomes exceed $200,000— he’s even captured 43% of the overall well-off Jewish vote, with that number rising to a whopping 67% when you look at the voters between the ages of 18 and 44. Furthermore, a brand new poll out this morning shows that Mamdani now holds a staggering 25-point lead over Andrew Cuomo.
That support exposes less a moral awakening than a crisis of a lack of self-control. Mamdani’s backers are not victims of capitalism’s failures but of their own overreach. They lived beyond their means, inflating lifestyles that no paycheck could sustain, and now look to government to subsidize the consequences.
His promises include rent freezes, free childcare, and public ownership of utilities. They sound like lifelines to people who have confused debt with success. Yet they are fiscal landmines, guaranteed to make the city’s affordability crisis even worse by strangling investment, draining tax revenue, and driving employers away.
For all their prestige and pay, many of Mamdani’s supporters feel trapped in an illusion of prosperity. Median rents in Brooklyn now devour over 40 percent of take-home pay for a basic two-bedroom apartment. In Williamsburg, professionals earning $150,000 or more share apartments into their 30s because the median rent for a one-bedroom tops $2,480. Over 65,000 households earning between $100,000 and $300,000 surrender at least a third of their income to rent.
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These aren’t oppressed workers. They’re the architects of their own frustration, clinging to status symbols they can no longer afford.
Instead of adjusting to reality, they demand that government reengineer it. Mamdani’s campaign feeds that fantasy by promising economic miracles at someone else’s expense. He markets his movement as a war on “capitalist greed,” but it is in practice a blueprint for economic suicide
How many of them even live in New York City?
Because they’re stupid, lazy and filled with class envy?
The rent is just too damn high guy peaked too early.
They won’t after they actually get it stuffed down their throats.....................
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. These are the same lawyers, traders, and tech specialists who once embodied the American dream.
If only we could build a wall around New York City so they can’t flee somewhere else and infect it with their stupidity. Then we could force these people to stay and actually live with the consequences of their stupidity. That is the only thing that would ever cure them of it.
FREE STUFF IF YOU BENDOVER FOR ALLAH!
This is a short piece absolutely chock full of insightful wisdom for the age of right now.
Luxury beliefs.
They want the latest fashion accessories like Mamdani.
And how many of them were even born and raised in NYC?
Prepare for the next wave of yankees to invade us. 😏
Well if rich/ middle class move out of New York property will become a lot more affordable since no one will want it
30% of income toward rent is the HUD formula for not overextending yourself. Nothing to see here. Thus most landlords require 3X income to monthly rent ratio.
“I support Cuomo.” ……. Boring.
“I support Sliwa.” ……… Boring.
“I support Mamdani.”…... Chic and exciting.
I think that plays a part with those white-collar folks.
Why? Because every generation has to learn the hard way that socialism sucks, and that’s because the long history of socialist failures isn’t taught in schools. …because academia is filled with socialists who maintain that socialism just “hasn’t been properly implemented.” Been hearing that same BS since the ‘60s.
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