New York City is expensive. Housing is expensive, often prohibitively so. The city has crime problems. Other problems.
Answers: Unshackle the housing market? Slash regulations and taxes? Make it easier to catch and punish bad guys? No. Prevent builders from supplying more and cheaper housing. Further hobble the police. Etc. Pro-Hamas socialist Zohran Mamdani has a slew of such pseudo-solutions.
And has a large following.
In New York’s mayoral race, decided Tuesday, the Republican candidate was excluded by the city’s heavily Democratic tilt. The incumbent mayor was also nonviable. Scandal-plagued former Governor Cuomo was the main alternative to a reputedly charming Mamdani now claiming a mandate to rob the rich.
Song Ying is a 72-year-old New Yorker who escaped the Chinese communists in 1976. She “swam for eight hours from Shenzhen, then a small fishing village, to Hong Kong,” explains The New York Times in a report on the growing generational divide among Chinese immigrants regarding the prospect of a socialist city. Song is dismayed by the strong support among young New Yorkers for Mamdani. She says — and knows — that socialism doesn’t work.
The Times belittles her concerns, stressing that Mao’s China is not the vision that Mamdani is selling. Yet upon winning, the mayor-elect asserted that his administration would prove that “no problem [is] too large for government to solve and no concern too small for it to care about.” Sounds like a government without limits.
Mamdani will not fix things. He offers as solutions more of the policies that caused current problems: more regulations; more taxes; more spending; more government in power and scope.
If a boulder is tumbling right toward you, demanding more and heavier boulders won’t stop you from being crushed.
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In the modern world, while many people don’t understand why socialism must fail, the vast majority recognize that socialist projects can fail. And a significant share of people who participate in socialist projects do so on an expectation that, if their projects fail, participants will be rescued. With that expectation, socialism seems to them to be a good gamble.
Americans who don’t want to pay for rescue of these gamblers should be insistent now and beyond the time when New York City crashes that they want pledges from candidates that no Federal bail-out will be provided for New York even after New Yorkers turn the socialists out-of-office.
Government that is big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have.
PROVE ME WRONG
The wisest human king who ever lived said: “There is nothing new under the sun.”
A lie is told. Truth exposes the lie. Hate from the liar for exposing their lie is the result.
Another lie is told. Once again truth exposes the lie. More hate from the liar.
Same script, same movie, just different actors. TRUTH: “There is nothing new under the sun.”
Lesson learned? Tell a lie and make lots of money. Expose the lie with truth and get killed.
Ask Why and die. It got Socrates killed. Also Charlie Kirk.
More will die for exposing lies in the political economy of hate.
It pure supply and demand. Marx and Engels were political economists. Politicians supply hateful lies = the product. Low information voters = consumers of hateful lies. The supply chain is the media. Hate is making them billions.
“There is nothing new under the sun.” See; https://bucknimz.substack.com/p/the-political-economy-of-hatred-an?r=tvxt0