As a person whose taxes go to NYC to fund their welfare and immigrant programs while our own roads are riddled with potholes, crime has destroyed many neighborhoods and countless lives, and angry welfare recipients sneer at us in the grocery stores, I'm afraid of Mamdani and his supporters. The very wealthy will move to Florida, Texas or elsewhere to escape what is about to happen. Those of us who cannot, and whose total assets may put us into the "privileged class" will bear the brunt. Like you, many of us lived frugally and saved for retirement so we wouldn't become a burden. We are now seen as greedy and selfish, and the less responsible want to extract from us everything that they can. Inept governor Kathy Hochul will be aiding and abetting the crime.
“In a certain sense, the people of NY were given the choice between dishonesty and communism. They chose communism. They will get both.”
This is Sowellian in scope and significance. (That’s the highest level of praise I can give any thinker.)
This quote can be used against the backdrop of history.
Every organizational choice offered to humans may be modeled as:
The choice between dishonesty and ….Dictatorship/Totalitarianism/Tyranny/Aristocracy/Oligarchy/Plutocracy/Meritocracy/Technocracy/Military Junta/Stratocracy/Confederation/Federalism/Republic/Communism/Anarchy.
Why do we end up getting both?
The answer must be because we don’t understand that whatever system we choose it doesn’t have the magic power to make our lives good. Only we do by taking responsibility and actions. To believe otherwise is to be worse than deceived or lied to; it is to be unconscious.
Oh we’ve plenty of comments about him in the UK. The Greta Left see him as a saviour, and equivalent of watermelon Zak Polanski (green on the outside, red inside), leader of the UK Greens. The Centre and Right see him as a gobshite peddling the usual fantasy economics, liable to do New York real harm, and an anti semite to boot.
Rich? The really rich create foundations. Put their kids in charge of dispersing their fortunes and get all the power from that money. They get a salary as foundation chief north of $500k with platinum benefits and perks. The Buffett kids, Chelsea Clinton, et al. Meanwhile the successful dentist gets killed with every tax imaginable
As a person whose taxes go to NYC to fund their welfare and immigrant programs while our own roads are riddled with potholes, crime has destroyed many neighborhoods and countless lives, and angry welfare recipients sneer at us in the grocery stores, I'm afraid of Mamdani and his supporters. The very wealthy will move to Florida, Texas or elsewhere to escape what is about to happen. Those of us who cannot, and whose total assets may put us into the "privileged class" will bear the brunt. Like you, many of us lived frugally and saved for retirement so we wouldn't become a burden. We are now seen as greedy and selfish, and the less responsible want to extract from us everything that they can. Inept governor Kathy Hochul will be aiding and abetting the crime.
“In a certain sense, the people of NY were given the choice between dishonesty and communism. They chose communism. They will get both.”
This is Sowellian in scope and significance. (That’s the highest level of praise I can give any thinker.)
This quote can be used against the backdrop of history.
Every organizational choice offered to humans may be modeled as:
The choice between dishonesty and ….Dictatorship/Totalitarianism/Tyranny/Aristocracy/Oligarchy/Plutocracy/Meritocracy/Technocracy/Military Junta/Stratocracy/Confederation/Federalism/Republic/Communism/Anarchy.
Why do we end up getting both?
The answer must be because we don’t understand that whatever system we choose it doesn’t have the magic power to make our lives good. Only we do by taking responsibility and actions. To believe otherwise is to be worse than deceived or lied to; it is to be unconscious.
Thanks Daniel!
US ideas of communist and socialist are always hilarious to British ears, as over here they’re both well understood strands of main political parties
What would Mamdani be viewed as in Europe?
Oh we’ve plenty of comments about him in the UK. The Greta Left see him as a saviour, and equivalent of watermelon Zak Polanski (green on the outside, red inside), leader of the UK Greens. The Centre and Right see him as a gobshite peddling the usual fantasy economics, liable to do New York real harm, and an anti semite to boot.
So pretty much the same way he's viewed over here.
I had heard the term watermelon before but couldn't remember what it meant. Thanks for saving me the trouble of googling it.
Rich? The really rich create foundations. Put their kids in charge of dispersing their fortunes and get all the power from that money. They get a salary as foundation chief north of $500k with platinum benefits and perks. The Buffett kids, Chelsea Clinton, et al. Meanwhile the successful dentist gets killed with every tax imaginable