re: Why New Yorkers really elected Mamdani: an op-Ed that sounds right

There is truth in that.

The investor class has sold our nation's industrial might to our enemies and that's put a middle class living in a much more difficult place to obtain for younger people entering the job world or older white collar workers being pushed out for cheaper, younger or foreign indentured employees. The dismissive "go drive a truck" ignores that people have built homes and families on a way of life that's going away rapidly and starting over at 40 or 50 with a difficult and all-consuming job that's also increasingly being taken up by illegals or foreign indentured labor isn't realistic for everyone. Because the investor class is still getting fat off the rigged "free trade" monster they've created, the economy is largely considered good, despite the constant uptick in cost of living. Unemployment numbers don't seem alarming but also don't take into account that wages for many of these jobs are insignificant relative to the rising costs of everything. AI is going to make this problem much, much more pronounced.

We've kind of been backed into a corner of socialism but we've done it to ourselves. The ones who got rich off our consumer-driven market can escape, but the rest of us will pay the price because as understandable as this movement may be, socialism is the surest ticket to poverty, oppression and despair as man has yet created.

If you're a paycheck to paycheck baw and your rent starts eating up 60% of your take-home pay, I could easily see how an avowed socialist would be the lifeline you'd accept. At the end of the day, people need to eat.

Our lives under Trump aren't any different than under Biden. Our GOP led Congress sucks and Trump and his cronies should've been working on dethroning cucks like Thune and Massie long ago.

I'll be off the MAGA train at the next stop. Choo choo!

America is getting populism one way or another. It's just a matter of whether it is coming from the left or the right.

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All the clamoring about a Muslim Socialist being mayor of NYC is missing the mark, according to this. I could have never voted for him, but this reasoning for why they did makes sense.

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Mamdani didn’t win because New York suddenly fell in love with socialism.

He won because he captured something every politician should be listening to right now — a deep frustration that the system doesn’t feel fair anymore


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And here’s the twist: That frustration isn’t confined to struggling families or low-income voters. It’s spreading among people who are doing fine — the educated, ambitious, upwardly mobile professionals who were supposed to be living the dream but can’t shake the feeling that they’re falling behind.


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They’ve done everything right — the schools, the hours, the hustle — and yet they still feel stuck.

Rents climb faster than salaries. Taxes eat away their paychecks. Buying a home feels impossible.


There’s a lot of truth here, and more at the link.

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I marvel at how many dupes there are in the US still voting for Dims, low info voters who are still convinced the Dim party is the party of the working class.

The Dims haven't been the party of the working class for 30 years. The Dim party is the party of the credentialed class and the party of those who believe a white Christian patriarchy is the cause of all their perceived oppression and poor life decisions. The Dims in DC are every bit as responsible for the off shoring of US manufacturing and industrial base as the Country Club Republicans.

Dems always break things, then convince the sheeple they can fix things with their own taxes… This has NEVER worked out, but it’s the uneducated people with their hands out that are the problem… Well there’s a big reckoning coming, very soon. They’ll blame Trump, of course

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Workers don't want to do that anymore because they see that their friends and colleagues who do "everything right", sometimes for years, get sh*tcanned anyway, sometimes after great performance reviews, because an AI computer or some automation or a cheaper (and less quality) imported new employee can "kind of" do their job "close enough". So the workers just go through the motions, companies don't value loyalty these days. (Some do, but very few).

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So then they are supposed to vote for the party with way more Billionaire tech allies than the other party and feel they have really stuck it to the system.

They then run off and buy their new IPhone, use AI to do their searching and planning, and park themselves on Facebook for hours.

Sounds like a solid plan.

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Train is moving with or without you.

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right over a cliff

The left is full of stupid ideas.

Feel free to list their ideas that you support and show us evidence of them working anywhere.

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Does your dad know you’re a white male liberal?

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Do you?

Rhetorical question, it's abundantly clear your don't know what you're talking about.

Further reply isn't necessary, however I will handle you if you make me.