Zohran Mamdani’s Socialist Vision for New York Is a Recipe for Disaster
I live in New York City. “Proud Democratic Socialist” Zohran Mamdani is likely to be my next mayor.
I’m not happy about it. But I am outnumbered.
Mamdani is popular. He won more primary votes than any other candidate in the city’s history.
Minneapolis may also elect a socialist mayor.
Why?! How deluded can voters be?
In my new video, I explain why their socialist ideas are destructive.
Mamdani mocks those of us who fear socialism. He says socialism just means that the state “provides whatever is necessary for its people to live a dignified life.”
Sounds nice.
But socialism doesn’t bring a dignified life. It never has. It’s wrecked lives wherever it’s been tried.
Mamdani says socialism isn’t a threat. It just means “seizing the means of production.”
For example, to provide more housing for the poor, government should take over apartment buildings.
“Whether you call it the abolition of private property,” said Mamdani, “or you call it just a statewide housing guarantee, it is preferable to what is going on right now.”
No! It’s not! This idea has failed, again and again!
Socialism, in various degrees, was tried and abandoned in the USSR, China, Vietnam, Mongolia, Cambodia, Afghanistan, South Yemen, Myanmar, Angola, Mozambique, Benin, Congo, Ethiopia, Somalia, Tanzania, Zambia, Ghana, Madagascar, Nicaragua, Guyana, Chile, Israel, Sweden, and India.
Countries that didn’t ab
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