I & I Editorial BoardNew York City voters are expected to elect Zohran Mamdani today to be their mayor. Do not make the mistake of thinking this is an aberration. His rise is the natural regression of the Democratic Party.
While the Democratic Socialists of America don’t cotton to the Democratic Party, the Democratic Party is in league with the Democratic Socialists. Barack Obama, the titular head of a party that for the moment has no leadership otherwise, recently called Mamdani “to offer his support” and “offered to be a ‘sounding board'” for the candidate.
Mamdani spokesperson Dora Pekec said the candidate, who now represents the 36th District in the state Assembly, “appreciated President Obama’s words of support and their conversation on the importance of bringing a new kind of politics to our city,” according to Fox News Digital.
Other prominent Democrats publicly supporting Mamdani include Sen. Bernie Sanders (of course), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (of course, again), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Oklahoma Indian Territory), U.S. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-Sombrero Land), New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
At least the Queens Democratic Party has shown some judgment, refusing to endorse Mamdani.
“There is a growing concern that socialism is hijacking the Democratic Party,” Democratic district leader Hiram Monserrate told the New York Post.
Someone should tell Monserrate, and Jeffries, who says he doesn’t see Mamdani as the future for Democrats, that the Democratic Party is now straight-up socialist. Obama’s call confirms it.
Last month, we clearly outlined why we don’t like the Democratic Party – and we expect reasonable people to agree. Naturally, radicals, malcontents, layabouts, whiners, grifters, theater kids, and the power hungry won’t agree.
Neither will the . . .
environmental activists, eager central planners, redistributionists, anti-gun scolds, antifa goons, COVID tyrants, neo-New Dealers, radical Islamists, militant transgender moms, pride cultists, race hustlers, criminal coddlers, infanticide advocates, male-hating feminists, DEI zealots, busybodies, nannies, groomers, dancing geriatrics and raging protesters who have no idea what they’re protesting.
All these types fall neatly under the umbrella of socialism, which, according to Marxists, must replace capitalism through revolution. And what Mamdani proposes for New York City – rent freezes, a $30-an-hour minimum wage, free bus service, a city-owned grocer, defunding the police – is nothing short of revolutionary.
In 2009, just after Obama was inaugurated for the first time, the cover of Newsweek declared “We Are All Socialists Now.” We weren’t then, and we aren’t now.
But the Democrats want to institute socialist rule, and New York City is a grand place to start – even if it means that nearly a million people, about 9% of the population, and businesses have said they will flee, if Mamdani, whose ambition is to seize the means of production, is elected. And another 2.1 million people said they would “consider” leaving. Obama’s friendly call to Mamdani should remove all doubt that the Democratic Party has descended into Marxist madness.
— Written by the I&I Editorial Board
The only way a socialist/Communist can lower the cost of living is to make it impossible to purchase the things they need. This is why Communism “succeeds” in places like Cuba and Venezuela: The people have no means of buying the essentials of life, so they are forced to starve.
In those societies, there is never any talk about making a bigger pie; it’s only about forcing people to reduce their consumption so they don’t take an unfair amount of the pie.