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NYC, Seattle just chose socialist mayors. Wake up, America.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 11:02 am
Posted on 12/1/25 at 11:02 am
NYC, Seattle just chose socialist mayors. Wake up, America.
It’s that time of year when we all feel a little more generous. Gifts and shopping are on our minds – and filling up that space under the Christmas tree.
Two incoming big-city mayors are also feeling that holiday spirit. The difference is that they have big plans to be generous with your money.
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, 34, has attracted most of the national buzz, but he isn’t the only democratic socialist to win the vote this November.
Seattle voters chose Katie Wilson, 43, to be their next mayor, and she shares many of Mamdani’s pie-in-the-sky policies. America’s warming to anti-capitalist ideals is alarming to say the least.
Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson joins NY Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani in promising free stuff
Here’s a partial list of what Wilson “wants,” in her own words: “I want everyone in this great city of ours to have a roof over their head. I want universal child care, free K through 8 summer care. … I want social housing. I want much more land and wealth to be owned and stewarded by communities instead of corporations.”
(Wilson seems to want to benefit personally from her campaign ideas. She has admitted to needing financial help from her parents to help pay for child care.)
On the other side of the country, Mamdani’s to-do list includes “free” child care, “free” buses, a rent freeze and government-run grocery stores.
Guess what? All of those things are extremely costly. Even more concerning is these socialists’ desire to get the government much more entrenched in business and daily life.
Trump has called Mamdani a 'communist.' Is he right?
Before Mamdani’s election in November, President Donald Trump actively campaigned against him, calling him a “communist lunatic.”
While Mamdani has demurred that label, preferring the more palatable-sounding “democratic socialist,” some of the ideas he’s advocated get uncomfortably close.
For example, when speaking at the 2021 Young Democratic Socialists of America conference, he said that socialists like himself “firmly believe in” the “end goal of seizing the means of production” – something he admitted may not be popular at the moment but nevertheless deserved to be promoted.
Seizing the means of production is a central tenet of communism.
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Posted on 12/1/25 at 11:22 am to djmed
I sincerely hope the people that voted for them get what they voted for.
PS: they're not getting bailed out
PS: they're not getting bailed out
Posted on 12/1/25 at 11:27 am to djmed
Isn't this an issue for NYC voters?
Posted on 12/1/25 at 11:55 am to djmed
Young people see a world with crushing student loans, poor employment prospects, and unobtainable housing.
Socialism is not the answer but it’s not hard to see then wanting to try something idifferent
Socialism is not the answer but it’s not hard to see then wanting to try something idifferent
Posted on 12/1/25 at 11:57 am to djmed
What did Mamdani win with? 50.4%? That's fixable.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 11:59 am to LSUFanHouston
Been too much sparing of the rod to quash the spoiling of the child. This board can snarl through their teeth, but this is the consequence of permitting a system to run unchecked.
This post was edited on 12/1/25 at 12:00 pm
Posted on 12/1/25 at 12:02 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Young people see a world with crushing student loans, poor employment prospects, and unobtainable housing.
A lot of those young people chose to go to expensive universities only to major in a useless field. Going to a JUCO for 2-3 years was beneath them. The employment prospects are what you make of it. The trades need people bad but being a plumber is so blue collar! no way dude! The housing market is what it is. You can get affordable housing outside of the coastal cities. But these young people want to live in cities that serve latte mocha mint sprinkled with nutmeg. I would like to live in the Gold Coast neighborhood of Chicago. I can't afford it like most people. Hence, we live in the suburbs.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 12:03 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Young people see a world with crushing student loans, poor employment prospects, and unobtainable housing.
Strangely the support for the socialists in Seattle comes mainly from tech workers who havent been affected nearly as much as the working class.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 12:37 pm to djmed
Yea and they’re going to try to out woke and out socialist the other which is good for no one, least of all their subjects - I mean citizens.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 12:47 pm to djmed
Wow, those cities are really gonna suck now.
Oh wait.
Oh wait.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 1:15 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Young people see a world with crushing student loans, poor employment prospects, and unobtainable housing.
Socialism is not the answer but it’s not hard to see then wanting to try something idifferent
And 20 years of "trust us, it will trickle down." Without ever seeing it actually happen. It's hard to fault their disillusion with the current system.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 2:09 pm to aTmTexas Dillo
The left has learned over a period of time how to skim just enough to make it not look like fraud. They have basically perfected cheating in elections.
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