Re: Spin Cycle: How Do You Solve A Problem Like Mamdani?

On Jun 30, 2025 at 9:12:38 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous" <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:

When self-described Democratic Socialist Zohran Mamdani won the New York City
 
mayoral Democratic primary, critics on both sides of the aisle began to wake
up to just how problematic his meteoric rise could be.

Mamdani hasn't even become mayor yet and he's already promising to alter the
city's tax code to tax people based on their race; he wants white people to
pay higher taxes than black and brown people.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY), for example, appeared to be
uncomfortable when pressed on whether or not he intended to endorse Mamdani
in the upcoming general election. It's certainly possible that Jeffries
hesitated because there may be three Democrats running -- current Mayor Eric
Adams, who won as a Democrat, has announced an independent bid for
reelection; and disgraced former Governor Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), who lost to
Mamdani in the primary, left the door wide open for a third party run. It's
also possible that Jeffries, who represents a district that is 11% Jewish,
has concerns about Mamdani’s support for BDS-- "Boycott, Divestment and
Sanctions"-- against Israel or his claim that, as mayor, he would have
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrested if he came to New York
City.

Arresting Netanyahu during a visit to the U.N. would violate both federal law
and the international treaties that established the United Nations. So here we
have a guy who's openly promising to commit federal felonies and abrogate
international law as a campaign platform and all the people who continually
screech "32 felonies!" About Trump's made-up paperwork crimes are lining up to
vote for him.

And that doesn't even get to his call to 'globalize the intifada', which is
the call of anti-Jew terrorist organizations worldwide. So he's apparently a
violent Muslim extemist, also.

It took less than 25 years to go from radical Islamists attacking New York and
murdering thousands to New Yorkers enthusiastically electing a radical
Islamist as mayor because he promises them free groceries (because
nationalized food stores have worked so well everywhere else they've ever been
tried).

So what's to be done? Democratic strategist James Carville warned that
Mamdani's primary win signaled trouble for New York City, but still seemed
hopeful that the "Communist lunatic"-- that’s according to President Trump--
could still be stopped on his way to Gracie Mansion.
 
"There's a lot of baseball left here. We've got a lot of baseball left to
play," he said.

As much as Carville looks and sounds like a warmed-over Orc from LORD OF THE
RINGS, he's politically very astute and would be winning elections for Dems if
they'd listen to him. His predictions are proven right every single time and
they still continue to dismiss him as an old crank and double down on idiocy
like forcing people to accept dudes in dresses in female locker rooms.