The Democratic Party’s newest star, Zohran Mamdani, was welcomed into the center of political power in America and the world this week, shepherded by “Democratic socialists” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pramila Jayapal. After winning the Democratic primary to become New York City's next mayor, Mamdani is being nationalized.
“Anybody that’s staying out at this point and not endorsing this incredible, dynamic leader is missing an opportunity,” Jaypal told reporters about his Washington, D.C., visit in an effort to get the Democratic Party to endorse Mamdani and his political platform. ”It’s hard not to be won over…it’s really inspiring.”
But Mamdani’s ideology isn’t one of fantasy or academic delusion. His policies have been implemented in countries around the world, leading to their destruction and the mass suffering of humanity.
We saw this play out in Castro’s Cuba and at the hands of Che Guevara — the charismatic, dynamic “democratic socialist” who led a revolution to poverty, despair, starvation, scarcity, intolerance and tyranny.
"Che Guevara co-founded a regime dedicated to abolishing almost everything today’s [young people] hold dear. Most victims of his firing squad massacres were Cuban youths in their twenties. Many as young as 16. Some even younger. Carlos Machado was 15 years old in 1963 when the bullets from a Che-commanded firing squad shattered his body. His twin brother and father collapsed beside Carlos from the same volley. All had resisted Castro and Che’s theft of their humble family farm, all refused blindfolds and all died sneering at their Communist murderers, as did thousands of their valiant countrymen,” Young America’s Foundation exposes.
That same regime was dedicated to eliminating private property and seizing the means of production.
"Soon after Fidel Castro came to power, his government seized the refineries, hotels and sugar plantations that were the most visible signs of the American hold on the island’s economy,” the Associated Press details. “But a look at long-unsettled claims for what was taken shows that many of the Americans who lost out were individuals and families rather than corporations. And much of what was seized, while of limited value in dollars, was sometimes dearly prized.”
“Nearly 90 percent of the Americans who filed claims for confiscated Cuban property were individuals, according to a Creighton University study commissioned by the U.S. Agency for International Development,” the report continues.
Just as Mamdani has regularly advocated for, claiming it will benefit the working class.
“We have to continue to elect more socialists. We have to ensure we are unapologetic about our socialism,” Mamdani says. “There are other issues we firmly believe in…it’s the end goal of seizing the means of production.”
Despite his third world facade, Mamdani is an elite, not someone who understands those working long hours and overtime shifts. Communism has always been implemented through and by those who seek power to subjugate the population under the guise of helping them. He sells the idea of “free” housing and groceries, but a promise of free from a comrade isn’t free at all. Instead, it’s an exchange of an individual’s freedom.
“After [the] Red October Socialist Revolution in 1917, Bolsheviks seized means of production, jailed or killed business owners, eliminated freedoms & took over private farms & food stores,” former Brooklyn City Councilman and communist refugee Ari Kagan wrote on X. “I would never imagine NYC would consider this failed & dangerous government model.”
New York City, a beacon of free commerce throughout the world, has a choice to make. History has shown us what will happen if voters make the wrong one.
