Just when you thought the world couldn’t get any crazier, New York, the most capitalist city on Earth, is one step away from electing a socialist mayor. Who had that on their bingo card?
Zohran Momdani — say that five times fast — is promising New Yorkers $100 billion in free stuff, courtesy of taxing the rich.
What could possibly go wrong?
Reminds me of a song by Alvin Lee of Ten Years After, c. 1971
“Tax the rich, feed the poor
‘Til there are no rich no more”
Financial institutions have been fleeing the metropolis for greener pastures at a furious rate. If Momdani gets in there won’t be any left. It’ll be the end of New York as a financial hub, among other things.
Like Margie Thatcher said, and I’m paraphrasing here, “The problem with socialism is that, sooner or later, you run out of other people’s money.”
And don’t tell me he’s a democratic socialist. Whatever. The guy’s no fan of capitalism. “No, I have many critiques of capitalism,” he said. “There must be a better distribution of wealth for all of God’s children in this country.”
There it is, wealth distribution. Need I say more?
Did I mention that AOC is his biggest supporter?
On a related note, I was in Texas last weekend. Don’t ask me why. Anyway I was hanging out with a bunch of rednecks shooting, grilling and drinking on a 40 acre ranch. And not necessarily in that order.
I asked my redneck friends, “How the hell did Dallas go blue?” They all just shrugged. They said it was a big city thing.
Maybe that’s true but I think it’s mostly about white guilt. Uber-privileged, over-educated, woke indoctrinated white guilt. Idiots playing right into the left’s playbook.
The point is, reasonably intelligent people will do the stupidest shit just to make themselves feel better about themselves and fit in with their idiot friends. It isn’t just annoying. It’s remarkably destructive. And it’s really freaking dumb.