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Seattle didn’t just elect a mayor — it elected the next blueprint for democratic socialism, giving Katie Wilson 61% of the vote in a city already collapsing under its own policies. She’s Mamdani 2.0, West Coast edition. 👉Her husband doesn’t work, her parents pay $2200 a month for her...

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Our campaign is proud to be endorsed by Chris Hedges! Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist, author, and host of the online broadcast The Chris Hedges Report. In his endorsement, Hedges says: "I’ve admired and supported the revolutionary socialist Kshama Sawant since she was first elected in 2013 to the Seattle City Council. Her fierce commitment to the working class, her steadfast defiance of the billionaires who destroyed our democracy, and her anti-imperialist and anti-colonialist credentials have long made her a special target. "The billionaire class has pumped millions of dollars into campaigns to defeat her and orchestrated a recall vote in 2021, which she fought and won. "Her current campaign for Congress is part of our grassroots struggle to wrest power from the hands of the global ruling class. It is a campaign for free healthcare for all funded by taxing the rich. It is a campaign to raise the minimum wage to at least $25 an hour. It is a campaign to block landlords from extorting massive rents and evicting families. It is a campaign to drive politicians like Adam Smith, a tool of big business who is funded by and subservient to the Israel lobby, from Congress. "In an age when we stand on the cusp of fascism, we cannot rely on the Democratic Party, whose betrayal of the working class and subservience to the rich gave us Trump. "We need a political earthquake. We need a revolution. But it won’t happen until we stand with revolutionaries like Kshama."

Kshama Sawant

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This comes from her recent chat with David Axelrod at the University of Chicago. She was asked about possibly running for president in 2028, and she basically said her goals are way bigger than any title like president or senator. Her exact words were something like, “They assume that my ambition is positional… a title or seat, and my ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country.” She pointed out that presidents and members of Congress come and go, but things like single-payer healthcare, a living wage, and workers’ rights are “forever.” She’s been open about being a democratic socialist for years and wanting systemic change in that direction. This just frames it as her real focus, not chasing higher office. AOC backed Zohran Mamdani, the democratic socialist mayor, from the start and spoke at his inauguration, calling it a “new era” for the city where they chose “prosperity for the many over spoils for the few.” She frames the challenges as inherited problems, not results of socialist policies. NYC does face real issues right now: ongoing population decline across income levels, businesses and high earners leaving, and questions about whether Mamdani’s new budget truly fixed the big deficit or just kicked it down the road with state aid and taxes on the wealthy. The bigger point about socialism clashing with a constitutional republic, that’s a fundamental tension. The U.S. system is built on limited government, individual rights, and private property. Heavy redistribution and central planning strain that framework. AOC sees “democratic socialism” as just expanding the welfare state and regulating markets within democracy, not replacing the Constitution. Critics argue that’s a distinction that tends to blur over time when the incentives shift toward more control. History has plenty of Countries to learn from where it’s been proven Socialism and Communism do not work.

Patricia 🇺🇸

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🚨HOLY SH*T! If Democrats lose CNN, then you know we’re in trouble. CNN’s Fareed Zakaria TORCHES NYC and other Democrat-led cities over failed policies and astronomical spending, promising everything while wasting billions of taxpayers’ dollars and dodging accountability. “Zohran Mamdani ran on a promise to make New York affordable — a mandate for a city we can afford. Last week, he unveiled a budget that is, in a word, UNAFFORDABLE. NYC’s budget has ballooned in recent years. Michael Bloomberg’s last budget, adopted for fiscal year 2014, totaled about $70 billion. With population decline, New York’s general spending in 2023 was more than 30% higher per capita than Los Angeles and more than double Houston’s. NYC’s largest school district in the country — the city’s education budget — has climbed while enrollment has shrunk. The DOE budget has risen from roughly $34 billion in 2019 to over $40 billion, while the DOE says per-student spending is projected to reach nearly $35,000 in fiscal year 2026, among the highest in the nation. The outputs — graduation numbers, test scores, and reading levels — are, at best, middling, often comparable to places that spend a fraction of what New York does. New York already sits at the extreme end of the American tax spectrum. For high earners, the combined state-plus-city income tax reaches 14.76%, and the combined marginal rate can reach roughly 55% on certain investment income. New Yorkers pay tax rates comparable to European countries that, in return, provide universal healthcare, free college education, and outstanding infrastructure. New Yorkers get some 300 miles of sidewalk sheds. On business taxation, the city is also off the charts: the Citizens Budget Commission reports that New York City business activity faces the country’s highest combined corporate tax rate, 70.44%. Mamdani wants to hike income and corporate rates even further — or else, he says, he will raise property taxes by almost 10%. Property taxes already made up more than 27% of the cost of homeownership in the city as of 2022, above the national average. New York is really a prime example of a problem Democrats seem unwilling to confront: blue cities are out of control — promising more, spending more, delivering less, and pushing off fiscal problems to some future day. Los Angeles is another one-party metropolis wrestling with affordability and disorder. The city’s homelessness budget for fiscal year 2025–2026 totals about $950 million. The LA Homeless Services Authority reported that in 2023 homelessness was up 9% countywide and 10% in the city, and a 2024 AP account noted that homelessness has surged 70% countywide since 2015 and 8% in the city — all this amid public frustration despite billions spent. An audit reviewed $2.4 billion in city homelessness funding and found that officials could not reliably track where it went, what it achieved, or take Chicago, with a mayor whose approval rating is deep underwater, where the pension promises are so large that they will surely bankrupt the city at some point. What is the theory of good government here? If the answer is “keep adding programs,” the city will keep producing unaffordability — because unaffordability is what happens when government becomes a machine that grows faster than the society it governs. NYC’s rental assistance spending rose from $263 million in fiscal year 2020 to $1.3 billion in the most recently reported fiscal year — a fivefold increase in a handful of years — and housing costs only got worse. For Democrats in city halls, there is a choice: stop governing as if the goal is to announce new entitlements, and instead make government work — safer streets, functioning schools, predictable sanitation, and, above all, enough housing that the middle class can find places to live. New York City does not need more soaring rhetoric; it needs more homes.”

I Meme Therefore I Am 🇺🇸

137,496 次观看 • 5 个月前

🤯 MAMDANI INVESTOR EXODUS: Even billionaires have a breaking point! Zohran Mamdani just froze rents on over a million apartments in New York City. Investor Sergey Brin just responded by walking out the door! The world's third-richest man dumped his entire stake in a NYC rent-stabilized apartment fund for six cents on the dollar. Not a typo. Six cents. That is what Mamdani's socialist utopia looks like in practice. A $268 billion man taking a bath just to get as far away from New York City housing policy as humanly possible. And Brin is not alone. The fund he fled is sitting on $84 million in unpaid rent and facing foreclosure on a half-billion dollar loan. The University of California already wrote down its own $115 million investment by 50%. Meanwhile Brin took his pennies and quietly bought a $51 million waterfront estate in Miami. That is the market giving Mamdani a one-finger salute on the way out of town. An A&E Real Estate spokesperson put it plainly: "Institutional capital - both equity investors and lenders - are fleeing New York City's rent-stabilized apartment sector. They understand New York is in a doom loop." A doom loop. Built by design. Celebrated as compassion. Margaret Thatcher said it best: "The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." New York is not running out. It is chasing the money out. There is a difference, and it is worse. When the capital is gone, the maintenance stops. When the maintenance stops, the buildings rot. And the same tenants Mamdani claims to be protecting will be the ones living in the wreckage. This is not a rent freeze. It is a slow-motion demolition of the housing stock, dressed up in the language of justice. Congratulations, New York. You got the mayor you voted for.

Bill Mitchell

777,039 次观看 • 1 个月前