“Do you think that billionaires have a right to exist?” Meet the Press host Kristen Welker asked Zohran Mamdani, the likely winner of last week’s still undecided Democratic Party mayoral primary in New York City.
“I don’t think that we should have billionaires,” was the democratic socialist’s reply.
So, his answer to whether they have a “right to exist” was … NO!
“Because, frankly, it is so much money in a moment of such inequality,” continued Mamdani, “and ultimately what we need more of is equality across our city and across our state and across our country.”
Even equality at lower levels of wealth. By design and decree.
But don’t worry your pretty little billionaire heads about being pilloried, prohibited, prevented from existing, because Mamdani generously offered: “I look forward to work with everyone, including billionaires, to make a city that is fairer for all of us.”
Ah, the rest of us … what does it all mean for us? Hmmm, could politicians aiming to tax, exploit, and totally end any such thing as “the rich” ever miss the mark and wind up hitting us of lesser wealth? And what if billionaires’ success is intimately tied to ours?
Still, New York City’s undesirables do not end with billionaires. Zohran Mamdani sees white people. (They’re everywhere.)
Welker confronted the Democrat state rep with a racially charged statement on his website: “Shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.”
Why bring up skin color?
The democratic socialist assured his policy is “not driven by race,” adding, “It is not to work backwards from a racial assessment of neighborhoods or our city.”
Of course, that “racial assessment” appears to be precisely what he’s working from.
Mamdani was also questioned about the slogan “globalize the intifada,” which he declined to condemn. It looks like his intifada will be against billionaires and white people.
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Barack Hussein Obama II was well positioned to lead the Democratic Party towards the center of logical possibilities. Instead, he and those at the commanding heights of culture made the party into one of unlimited “progressive” aspiration — they sent the party careening leftward with no stopping principle other than logical exhaustion. The moderates who were not swept-up and converted by the fever dream fled or were driven-away. This terrible transformation has not simply been effected at the level of those who would hold office; the rank-and-file have gone mad. And thus the pragmatists and opportunists find themselves unable to steer the party back towards the center.
Even if Mr Mamdani does not win the upcoming mayoral race, plainly the time has come for productive people to emigrate if they have the means to do so. New York City is in a death spiral. Indeed, emigration will accelerate that spiral, but those who staying cannot halt it.
Those communities that are controlled by the mad left will rush to imitate whatever innovations the New York Democrats effect, without waiting to see what results.
The rest of the country will take New York City as one more cautionary tale — like that of Detroit, Chicago, San Francisco, and Seattle — about giving control to Democrats. And that response is the nightmare of the pragmatists and opportunists of the Democratic Party, who see national power slipping through their fingers.
Things you thought impossible …
1) A Muslim Marxist
2) A Muslim Marxist mayor of a major American city.
Yes, Mamdani’s political views are abhorant, but I admit to experiencing more than a touch of Schadenfreude over the shrieks of horror coming from fanatical Israel-can-do-no-wrong types, that a — GASP! — Muslim who is not an Israel butt-kisser won the race.