His wealth of socialist/Communist
ideas —
abolishing private property,
seizing the means of production, defunding the police, freezing rent,
providing free public transportation,
establishing government-run stores and more — make many such 20-somethings swoon.
Yet wiser and more sober minds know just how such notions would hurt the city.
Yes, Mamdani is over 30 — he’s 33 — but maybe he’s just a late bloomer,
not having achieved much for his age.
Given his feather-light resume and fantasyland agenda, some over-30 supporters who should know better nonetheless assure us not to worry; he won’t be able to accomplish what he’s saying.
That’s a head-scratcher: They disagree with Mamdani’s core positions and also recognize his lack of ability and achievements — but will vote for him because he will fail at his agenda!
History abounds with the horrors of the communism that fuels his and his supporters’ ideologies.
Immigrants who experienced communism recoil at seeing it advocated here.
From 1917 to 1987, Communist regimes killed an estimated 169 million people through executions, purges, forced labor, torture, imprisonment and mass starvation — in Communist China, the Soviet Union, Angola, Cambodia, Cuba, Ethiopia, Poland and more.
That far exceeds the 28 million deaths under fascism.
Media and education invested in glorifying Marxism and denigrating America have spread ignorance of communism’s bloody track record.
This memory hole fuels the myth that wealth redistribution creates equality, freedom and prosperity.
History proves this notion false.
Capitalism, despite its flaws and more than any other system, catapulted billions, including a quarter of humanity in China, into unprecedented prosperity and the closest ever to freedom and equality of rights; communism did the exact opposite.