Socialism has always been seen as a scary word. What Mamdani believes in is Democratic Socialism. Essentially, taxing billionaires / millionaires more to fund public infrastructure, transport and the like. Taxing poor people less. Hardly radical. People don’t ever stop to consider just how BIG a billion dollars is. It’s a thousand million dollars
US biggest problem is wealth/power inequality and third world healthcare. Yet contrary to your messaging, they are the wealthiest country in the world. In other words, it’s not an existential crisis in any way, shape or form.
Communism is what you are referring to, whereby everyone gives their everything to the people in power and trusts that they will act in their interest. Soviet-era Communism is what happens when there’s no guiding democratic framework. Without the framework, Russia gradually became undone and devolved into a totalitarian hellhole. The initial ideas of Marx were somewhat followed by Lenin, but Stalin eventually used contextual crisis’s (famine, external threats) to redefine a more totalitarian rendition. Like Trump he installed loyalists and purged news, military, law enforcement ranks to shape the country HE wanted. Like yourself, some people supported it because Stalin convinced people it was do or die, now or never. I wish people like yourself could see that what’s happening in America is history repeating!!
Now socialist ideals just get lumped together with an entirely different beast. Tonnes and Tonnes of videos of Trump fans being asked to “define socialism” and they freeze or make up some nonsense on the spot. This is all part of the reason I kept pulling the uneducated card; because while Americans in general aren’t well-versed in history, MAGA tend to be oblivious to it, or confidently incorrect (the worst kind).
Mamdani’s views are no where near as radical as the “big beautiful bill” and the lies told to MAGA/republicans to get them onboard. Here’s a fact check on various aspects of the bill.
It’ll kick millions of people off Medicaid / cut health insurance from people in the middle class AND add trillions to the deficit. The money goes to tax cuts which are heavily weighted towards the ultra wealthy. Is this what “going out with a bang” looks like? That sense of urgency just screams that Trump’s fear mongering rhetoric has gotten through to you. Don’t be one of them
Check out the above video. What happened since? Notice all the republicans booing it, yet now they advocate for it?? Everything’s played out as predicted right now, and when Biden can see the future better than yourself it’s time to reconsider how deep in the hole you may be
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