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Zohran Mamdani’s economic promises consist of things the mayor doesn’t have the legal authority to do and things that there isn’t enough money to implement.
His government grocery stores plan was based on an accounting error.
Many of his other promises are based on powers that the mayor’s office doesn’t have.
If you think that Mamdani is serious about any of these things, then that’s a takedown. But he isn’t. The grab bag of leftist fantasies is there to reel in leftists, many of whom are well off and wouldn’t have the faintest idea if any of these things actually happen.
But where Bernie Sanders is probably hypothetically serious about trying to implement some of his plans (but probably would spend most of his time banging on the table, yelling at his staff and recording TikToks yelling about billionaires), Mamdani like AOC isn’t.
And where AOC uses this stuff to get more famous and powerful, Mamdani is a product of the red-green alliance, but I suspect he’s much less serious about the ‘red stuff’ than the ‘green stuff’.
The Muslim areas which turned out bloc votes to push him through aren’t interested in his program of defunding the police, raising taxes or direct socialism, not unless it directly benefits them.
He may not be really serious about government grocery stores, but I suspect he’s quite serious about outlawing most Jewish organizations in New York City. And I imagine he’s got plans for the NYPD, that don’t involve defunding it, but does involve turning it into a counterpart of the Met Police, tasked with cracking down on Islamophobia. The Communism isn’t coming, but the Islamism is.
Marxism comes from religion. It is religion disguised as secular science. Marxism leads back to theocracy.
“I believe that the medievals understood much better than the moderns on what basis to build a totalitarian society that would last and not collapse in less than a century. They did it and the people in the rising religious movement today know that full well. They’re the ones who have millions, upon millions, upon millions, of followers and a real insight into the fact that economics is not the crucial factor, but philosophy and culture are…. Religion has been the root of [totalitarianism] from the beginning, it has ruled in disguised forms, and still is, and now the disguise had to be stripped off… What socialism is doing is really helping religion, the bigger the statism, the more people grow accustomed to government rule over everything, the more people are ready for religionists to take over the lead from the more secular side… The socialists are building the basis for totalitarianism but only the religionists are going to cash in on it and take over.” – Leonard Peikoff
Yes, he’s a complete fraud, as his multiple fake accents confirm.
Somebody please “assassinate” him. Not that killing a nobody would be an assassination.
Exactly, Daniel. You’re the first to say it, I think. Thank you.
May Allah give him warts, and send him bedbugs for company.