Who’s afraid of a socialist mayor? The corporate media. These editorial boards are not afraid that Katie Wilson and Zohran Mamdani’s policies will fail—they fear that they will work, thus making a “tax the rich” agenda more popular nationwide.
Source: OkayButFoRealz
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Yea no shit. They know they’re cooked for all coming elections especially the presidency.
Next time we reincarnate on a Class-M planet, let’s not allow the billionaire class to become a thing in the first place. Someone set a reminder plz
Ever since we left the forest and started growing our food, there has been an upper class that has been running things. This isn’t new. Religion was the tool used until money was invented, then it became both. The minority has always fucked over the majority.
Here is the thing
From the days of nobles and peasants, kings and serfs, robber barons and workers and any era you want to describe….its always a trickle UP economy
So called “job creators” benefit entirely from the collective spending power of regular folks, they are not offering some special benefit out of civic duty, they are simply collecting and storing resources
Tax the fuckers
What is we just roll back the top level tax rates to what they were in the Reagan era?
Should be, gonna be popular worldwide.
So, first up, highly doubting either are going to implement arbitrary massive tax hikes, even on the wealthiest in their cities. There’s probably enough corruption to root out that there might appear be enough flexibility in the budget to pay for a good chunk of their campaign promises.
Not to mention… the tax burden has shifted away from the wealthiest and corporations towards us wage slaves for decades. Arguably *too* far. So, even if taxes in NYC do go up on the wealthiest, cry me a river. Most people are barely putting food on the table.
Seems to me they really got spooked by the ‘occupy wall street’ movement.
Since then they’ve worked overtime to make the U.S. population turn on each other, rather than focus on the real problem.
The corporate overlords both parties are owned by.
The “tax the rich” initiative should be a no-brainer to anyone except those at the top.
As it should and these people need to ram these policies through. Don’t stop for compromise because there shouldn’t be any.
Yea this has been my theory.
If the ideas work, democratic socialism and ranked choice voting will pick up. The people will have more power, which the rich Hate.
I’m from the birthplace of the American socialist party: Indiana.
Seriously. Look at every “blue wall” state that’s bled red. Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio. Indiana, Kentucky, and WV used to be competitive for the Dem/left/urban/labor party (if you keep going back). Minnesota, the last true fortress, is under attack. Minnesota is the most Dem state in the country by voting history and it’s under threat.
What do all these places have in common? They used to have socialist cities and a strong focus on labor. That’s how they got great. And then the cold war nuked that by making the label radioactive, and it all went to shit. My old-union grandparents were always furious at Dems for not running socialist-but-not-by-that-name policies and somehow consultants took that to mean my area was conservative.