Posted on 11/05/2025 12:25:41 PM PST by Judge Bean
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 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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Lemmings!
Eager to be first off the cliff.
Liberty is the founding principle of the American Republic.
Liberty is how America grew and prospered.
Without liberty, there will be only decline.
Big decisions without preparation leads to increased use in Preparation H.
“I wonder if it will take a year before they realize that their world cannot be financed by Government.”
A wise former corporate director told me, “If something is horrible, don’t work around it. Force everyone to live to the letter of it. It will be changed quickly.” So, they don’t like the unaffordability of everything. Look no further than government policies and regulation. Those are the causes. High taxes, high fees and fines. Look for all of those to go WAY up. Every regulation ads a silent tax on time, cost or effort. Those yuppies are going to get buried in the very thing they hate.
It will be changed quickly.
Because they expect freebies, and just watch what happens when they dont get it..its NOT going to be pretty because all the freebies they are being promised is total BS, they wont get ANYTHING..and as far as Jews voting for him, those are the same kinds of Jews that would hand Israel over to Hamas TODAY if they could
The yuppies will change their tune when bacon, ham and beer are outlawed in NYC.
They fell for the sprinkles
No, they don't.
They love the idea of ZM socialism.
When the S hits the F, they won't like it so much.
You heard it here first.
I am Zoltan the Magnificent.
Here's a crash course:
Nothing is free. Socialism makes everything more expensive. Education, for instance. It may be ""free" in the sense that the parents don't get a bill, but they pay through the nose with their taxes. That allows schools to pay exorbitant salaries, benefits and pension packages.
Same is true with rent control. Tenants' rent may "freeze" but that will allow landlords to raise rents because taxpayers will make up the difference.
Same with ""free" busing and childcare. Those industries will raise their rates knowing full well that taxpayers will pay the freight. <>
NYC will be bankrupt in two years.
One of the strangest spectacles in modern American politics.
<><>high-flying professionals of NY’s white-collar class
<><>marching behind an avowed socialist, Zohran Mamdani.
<><>lawyers, traders, and tech specialists who embodied the American dream.
<><>His campaign thrives not in the boroughs where poverty festers
<><>but in luxury neighborhoods like Park Slope and Williamsburg,
<><> median household incomes there exceed $200,000
<><>a Jew hater, he’s captured 47% of the overall Jewish vote,
<><>before the election, Mamdani held a staggering 25-point lead over Cuomo.
THE YUPPIE EMPLOYEES MAY BE LEFT BEHIND WHEN THE EMPLOYERS MOVE ELSEWHERE
The NY yuppies must think Mandami is one of them...rich, went to Columbia, oh so cosmopolitan because he is.a Ugandan muslim, goes to a disco, and look at that smile with those teeth!
Mandami what big teeth you have!
One of my favorite authors called it “TANSTAAFL.” That is why I think that once they learn that the city won’t pay for everything and everything costs twice as much (even if available), then they will blame him (or more likely Trump). I toured east Berlin before the Wall came down, and I was astonished to see a “shoe” store with perhaps 2 dozen pairs of shoes for sale, and a line that stretched around the block. One local told me that he had to pay for his car in advance (a sh*tty Russian car), and it took seven years to get it. No, there is no such thing as a free lunch. You get what you pay for.
I love it!
It's already bankrupt. The states are in debt to the tune of $100 trillion. The federal government is in debt to the tune of $38 trillion.
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