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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mamdani’s economic populism isn’t radical - it’s reactive.

After decades of corporate greed, stagnant wages, and soaring costs of housing, food, and everything else, his socialism is a direct response to a broken system that's failed the majority of Americans.[/quote]

This is true.  However, his reactionary policies won't address the causes of these bad economic outcomes but will instead make them worse.  [/quote]

Works just fine in many other countries.  NYC is practically its own small country, so it’s a great place to pilot it in the US.[/quote]

In which country does it work just fine? [/quote]

Any democratic socialist country works to make things better for its population, and they run many public-private partnerships, as would be the case here.

This is not a radical idea, but it seems that some people have really been conditioned to hate the idea of people getting benefits from their tax money.  Pretty weird if you ask me.

https://theweek.com/politics/mamdani-government-run-grocery-stores

https://www.modernretail.co/operations/unpacked-the-history-of-city-owned-grocery-stores-and-how-public-private-partnerships-have-worked-in-other-markets/
 https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2025/06/25/zohran-mamdanis-most-surprising-proposals-from-city-owned-grocery-stores-to-arresting-netanyahu/

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/mamdani-city-run-groceries[/quote]

LOL

[twitter]https://twitter.com/HeathMayo/status/1948136805355938078[/twitter][/quote]

None of this is socialism, or really is going to move the needle making the problems the city has go away.  There is no shortage of affordable food in NYC, there are many fruit carts where one can buy cheap produce on the way from work, food trucks and affordable take out places even in Manhattan.  Fine dining is very expensive and mediocre mid range restaurants are overpriced, but NYers aren't necessarily struggling with fewer or more expensive food options than elsewhere.  That's nonsense. They literally give free lunches to kids coming to city pools and there are soup kitchens for the homeless.  Public schools had free lunches for everyone just a few years ago, not sure if now.

Housing affordability issues he isn't even trying to address, because it's a loaded gun and he has no clue.  His excessive focus on foreign conflicts is completely useless in helping poor and middle class afford paying their bills.  He is just pandering to the students and the youth to win their votes while his campaign has nothing that would truly make a diff in helping them afford their lives.

He is just another puppet performing for the grifters behind him. [/quote]

He's not a puppet.  He is giving his voters exactly what they want.  When they run out of money, they will move on and vote for the same nonsense all over again. [/quote]

There is already no money. Most students in Columbia and NYU are well off and are supported by their parents.  They do not have the same concerns.  He is giving them what they want for sure, which is empty promises and useless fist shaking at Israel when he has zero efficacy in changing anything. 
Maybe they will care when their bar drinks and takeout get even more expensive or their parents insist they commute to their classes from Queens. [/quote]

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