Get ready for more Zohran Mamdani-like candidates – avowed socialists – to soar to popularity across New York state and the rest of the U.S.
We the public, have ceded control of education to the far left. The result is a curriculum that never mentions the brutal consequences of socialist experiments in Eastern Europe, Latin America, and elsewhere, and instead brainwashes students with a fairytale definition of “socialism” devoid of any historical context.
Of course, young New York voters are troubled by the unaffordability of the city. But that alone does not explain the appeal of Mamdani’s socialist promise. Numerous polls show socialism is gaining traction among younger voters. They’re being brainwashed in school.
Gallup reported Monday that 49% of people ages 18 to 34 had a positive view of socialism, compared with 30% of those over age 55.
Our only option is to fight politically to regain control of what’s taught in our schools.
Here is text from a typical lesson plan recommended for New York state teachers, telling students:
“In a capitalist society, the goal is for individuals to make profit by earning as much money as they can. In a socialist society, the government directs the wealth so it is more equally spread around to everyone, but there is still private ownership of property and businesses. In a communist society, everyone is equal and given the same amount of resources as determined by the government.”
Students are encouraged to choose one of these economic systems – based on these misleading definitions – and defend their choice.
New Yorkers should be outraged. This lesson plan includes no discussion of how, in the name of socialism and equality, Cold War despots in Russia, Romania, Poland, and other Eastern Bloc countries slaughtered innocents, seized property, and sunk their countries into starvation-level poverty.
Students aren’t told how socialism has plunged Venezuela into starvation since voters opted for socialist Hugo Chavez in December 1998. Chávez promised a fairer relationship among the socioeconomic classes. Sound familiar?
On the campaign trail, Mamdani is promising the same equality that kids are hearing about in the classroom.
“There must be a better distribution of wealth for all of God’s children in this country,” Mamdani tells CNN.
“There is enough money for a life of dignity for all people,” he says on ABC.
No discussion of socialism’s brutal past. It’s not because socialism was implemented by bad actors. Socialism is inherently coercive because it violates our rights as individuals to work and acquire more property than the guy next door who doesn’t work.
It is now politically incorrect to suggest that young voters – many of them college graduates – buying Mamdani’s socialist promises, such as rent freezes, are victims of an inadequate education. When I stated that on CNN Thursday evening, Congressman Ro Khanna demanded that I apologize because he falsely claimed I was calling Mamdani voters “stupid.”
No, not “stupid,” just lacking any knowledge of history.
History would help them evaluate Mamdani’s housing proposals, where New Yorkers are especially stressed.
Mamdani said in 2020 that “people often ask what socialists mean when we say we want to ‘decommodify’ housing. Basically, we want to move away from a situation where most people acquire housing by purchasing it on the market & toward a situation where the state guarantees high-quality housing to all.”
That’s reminiscent of what the despots of Eastern Europe did during the Cold War, building huge concrete apartment blocks with meager square-foot allotments per family. Romanian despot Nicolae Ceaușescu razed entire villages to herd the populace into his high-rise state-run facilities.
Of course, a New York mayor has far fewer powers. But Mamdani promises on his campaign website to build 200,000 new units of “permanently affordable, union-built, rent-stabilized homes.”
Sounds wonderful, unless you’re familiar with the failure of New York City Housing Authority housing, which ghettoizes the poor in unlivable circumstances. It takes on average 350 to 423 days to prepare a vacant NYCHA apartment for occupancy – a sign of the system’s dysfunction. NYCHA residents suffer heat and hot water outages, mold, and dilapidated conditions.
We have failed young voters by ceding control of their education to the teachers’ unions.
Union members and their relatives outgun parent groups to control local school board elections, and unions dominate statewide curriculum choices. That has to change fast, or the push for a phony vision of socialism – already dominant in the schools – will soon dominate at the ballot box as well. Mamdani is a red flag.
Betsy McCaughey is a former Lt. Governor of New York State and founder of SAVENYC @SAVENYC.org. Follow her on Twitter @Betsy_McCaughey.
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In today’s AMAC articles there is the one about Jamestown which was our original settlement of socialism. This article only touches a small part of the story. One should research and read the rest of the story like Paul Harvey used to say. Thank goodness John Smith came along and said “no work, no eat”.
Me personally I want less government in my life and I support the capitalist system that has given me the opportunity to better my life.
Thanks to the Teachers Union, brainwashing has been in our schools and Universities for decades. It’s time to remove all beliefs other than PURE AMERICAN BELIEFS.
America is GREAT for many reasons that other countries don’t have.
I love it when she said Mamdani is going to build 200,000 units of housing with Union labor. Good luck with that. They will be so expensive nobody can afford to live there. The communists always promise pie in the sky but nobody ever gets a bite of that pie, but the rich who are in charge. Socialism doesn’t work either. After WW II it was prevalent in Europe but where are they now. They pretend to be democrats but still want to push their socialism. Or should we say dictatorship. This is what is happening. Starting with Obama. He didn’t help his black brothers and sisters no he undermined them by pulling the race card. These young people believe what the left has been telling them. Wealth can be spread evenly. No it cannot. The one working hard and saving his money to buy a house is not going to share his wealth with the lazy bum who lays on his back all day long. Equity cannot be reached with letting criminals out of jail to give them another chance. To defund the police and have social workers talk down a shooter or a knife wielding criminal. The left keeps saying the killer in N.C. had no access to mental health. He was arrested 14 times. The judges were the ones that could have ordered mental health care. But they all passed the buck and now it is the fault of those on the right for this killer. Does that make sense? There is no common sense on the left. Only obstruction and tyranny. And if communism takes a hold genocide will be happening. For all those opposed have to be eliminated. That is the only way they can get absolute power. Sadly these young people have not been told that you cannot legislate equity. We should ask them what Stalin and Mao and Pol Pit, Ho Chi Min, Castro did to stay in power.
Is it not enough for the people that Obama transformed the country? They are asking for more? How bad do they want it? It will not be the same only so much better as they expect it to become, brain of the chicken, they will all end up in the same pot. No escape from it.
A lot of Americans have just given up and want the government to take care of them from cradle to grave. Sad.
Democratic socialists start out by putting limits on free speech. We saw this during the Biden administration when government agencies pushed social media to censor comments that went against the administration narrative. During COVID we saw doctors getting silenced when they promoted the benefits of certain pharmaceuticals that were helping their patients. Once you remove competing narrative, then only approved messaging is heard. You speak out about the absurdity of biological men playing in women’s sports, and you are accused of hate speech. Soon “mother” is replaced by “birthing person.” Criminals who once needed punishment, now require “help.” And so it goes until once logical thought is rendered hateful and then illegal.
Yet another reason to home school
The NYCNY electorate are among the very least informed and intelligent in the world! They deserve what they get.
As soon as Mamdoni became the front runner for the mid terms, I told my husband it will become a domino effect for other states. There is a socialist running in Minnesota now. We are living in very perilous times. There are so many people who fled from their countries and came here legally are saying that the people who are for these communist politicians have no clue how horrific the living conditions will become.
To all able-bodied couch leeches and scavengers, how much of MY income is YOUR “fair share”??????????????????????????????????
The one and only reason young people are for socialism read: Communism, is because they are totally ignorant about history and economics. Case in proof: AOC is actually a college grad who knows nothing and spews the absurdities she’s been trained to believe. I doubt she’s ever had a thought of her own about what she preaches. And that goes for those who voted this incompetent airhead into the House. NYC voters blindly vote Democrat Party candidates and always out vote the rest for the state which is much more conservative and Republican. That is their frustration. Mine is ignorant, self-interested voters who have no curiosity to learn about what they are voting for.
He got his audience via
Indoc
Media
Group think
Poor home life
Poor Education
Follow the crowd
Censor history etc from academia
Thus the Zohan crowd
nobody works. There won’t be anything to eat. plain as you can get.
Socialists NEVER tell the truth about what happens within a short period of their takeover! Socialism has/will always fail because it goes against human nature. If you reward someone for sitting on their butt all day, you will get NO production of goods. Only those with good morals will work but at some point they will tire of being used and move elsewhere. That already is happening in NY, IL, and CA. Today’s young people who have been handed everything on a golden platter by mindless parents have NO idea how to survive in the REAL world!
New York City constantly boasts about being an intellectual and entertainment capital on the east coast. Well, they may or may not come up to claims as far as entertainment, Mamdani confirms that they’re intellectually deficient in a big way. And understand this, NYC does not represent the views of the upstate’s people. But they haven’t the votes to override what they get dumped on them by the left wing clusters in NYC, Albany, and the large cities.
The difference between ignorant and stupid?
Ignorant means you just don’t know.
Stupid means you never will.
Or…ignorance is temporary, but stupid is forever.
God Bless and be with Charlie Kirk’s family during this difficult time.
You can’t fix stupid.
He is a Jew hater!! How can he get elected??!!
Why is a known communist allowed to be voted into office when he or a she is not native born in America but even if they were they go against everything this country is about. Their should be laws against it.
Charlie Kirk was just shot dead, Mamdani. There’s really nothing more to say.
Brainwashed or brain dead?
Has Mamdani provided his net worth, and how much he has contributed to or given up so his followers can lead a better life and continue not to work?
Ask the followers of the murdered Charlie Kirk how they fell about communism. Evil is evil but only recognized as evil by the young after it is too late.
I used to be in NY state and am glad I left there! If NYC is so anti-Republican that they’d rather vote for a Communist than let the great Babylon fall!
“Ignorance can be fixed, Stupid is forever”
We just had a 30 yr old father of two murdered for his beliefs and support of God and country. Communism
Is evil and uses any tool to conquer.
They all want free stuff without realizing smeone else must work for the redistributed funds needed for their free stuff. IMO
I only needed to see that he is a Muslim. That there told me everything. Today is a memory of 09/11/2001. They are here and a great many thanks to BHO. Because he is one and he truly does not like this country, her founding, her traditions, her culture and her history. There are many here who wish to cause great harm. I only hope that we wise up before it is too late!
There is absolutely nothing dumber or more dangerous than a New York City voter. NOTHING.
For every illegal dirt bag we deport, there should be a New York voter under each of their arms.
Until we all stop calling people like mamdani, the awful obtuse cretin (aoc), bernie sanders, fauxcahontas, killery clinton, ninny piglosi, gavvy newscum, tampon tim, and the rest of the vile communist cabal, Democrats, the brainwashed and brain-dead will blindly follow because they are Democrats after all. You have to give them an “A” for loyalty, even if it is misplaced.
These followers are loyal to their beloved Democratic Party. They refuse to believe the party has been taken over by the communists, socialists, marxists, maoists, islamists, and the rest of the cabal of vile anti-American, America-hating schmucks who want to destroy us. This became very clear to me when they voted for obama twice. This man stood up and truthfully told us that he was a marxist, before he became POTS, AND people still voted for him because he was running using the “Democrat.” SMH
Seriously, people, STOP calling these a-holes Democrats. They are NOT Democrats. Hell, they aren’t even “democrats.” Call them what they are and don’t stop. They are COMMUNISTS! This is the only way it will sink in to those who are still trying to find the “democratic” dream through the lies and BS these creeps are spewing. Cut the crap! It’s dead, the Democratic Party is DEAD. There is no such thing as a “democratic socialist,” as there is absolutely nothing democratic about socialism. The only way to open the eyes and ears of the followers is to continually tell them that “the emperor has no clothes.” Tell them the TRUTH!
AND…mamdani is a moron. He’s spewing nonsense about things the USSR (Russia, for the youngsters who know nothing about the old Soviet Union) began dismantling back in 1999, 26 years ago. The BS he’s promoting didn’t work back then, and it won’t work today. He should be laughed off the stage for being so stupid.
The country is doomed.
Teacher’s unions are just tools of the Communists to destroy the U.S. from the inside. In the short run they will succeed but one day Jesus is coming back. Looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth.
The 49% want mommy and daddy to take care of them for the rest of their lives. They should ask the peoples of socialist countries how well that works out.
Is it true that Mamdani has dual citizenship, Uganda (born there) and USA? If so, how it it possible to run for public office in America ?
I’ll bet anything that Tyler Robinson loved everything that Mamdani stands for.
Our Government needs strict laws and candidates should meet strict requirements just to think they can require U.S. Citizens to vote for them! And, Socialism/Communism should void out anyone as a Candidate!!! Give them the Bible which our Country was Founded On and If they Refuse to Acknowledge/Read it!: “Hit the Road Jack and Don’t Look Back!” And Receive an Invitation to Leave the U.S.A. Right-A-Way!!! The invitation should state the Name of the Country that Allows Anti-American Socialism/Communism!!! Or, Before you want to run for any U.S. Office, you MUST GO THROUGH BOOT CAMP!!! No Weapon Training Because you are too Dangerous!!! And, then, just Maybe you might receive A Welcome to the U.S.A. Oh, and before you are allowed Air Time: An American Flag should be held in your hand and hearing you State The Pledge of Allegiance from memory and mean it would be Required!!!
The article by Charlie Kirk in this month’s magazine is a stark warning. Young people are deeply dissatisfied because they will not have as high a standard of living as their parents. The causes are many, but most are rooted in bipartisan misgovernance by politicians more interested in re-election than a sustainable economy. If conservatives can’t produce the radical changes in government policy needed to provide young people a reason to support the system, they will vote for the socialists to overthrow it. Either way we are going through the wringer.
Don’t even waste time arguing with a dedicated communist operative because they are beyond spiritual or intellectual salvation and will try to block you out anyway or shout slogans and names at you and if they ever have total power over you they will destroy everything you hold dear including yourself if you resist to much. I know I was in the former USSR, DDR, CSR, MSR and several other communist or socialist’s run states since. Just practice liberty or death and if it ever becomes a question over your life and death don’t feel bad about having to kill one of those pigs to save your own life and family. Comunistas Socialistas mas baja que animales !
Brain dead!
The existence of our country is on the line. AMAC members need to take over all of the school boards and throw the commies out. If they try to prevent you from running or obstruct you once you are on the Board, sue them for everything that they have. They have been suing Trump for every action he takes. Let’s start suing them for indoctrinating our children and grandchildren to make them communists.
These young indoctrinated voters will get exactly what they vote for in Mamdani. They will get poverty, starvation, lawlessness, and a life for them and their children, of abject misery. Why on earth do we allow these reprobate politicians to gain a foothold on Americas system of governance?
as always has been, the guy that pays you to work for him is the “BOSS”. if your work doesn’t satisfy him, get another job.
Got Communism? You will have if this moron is elected.
If Mamdani wins and Mamdani-like candidates, avowed socialists, soar to popularity across New York state, I can see enough people leaving New York City (first) then the rest of New York so there is not enough tax revenue to run the state and it will go bankrupt.
We really need to get this clown elected in NYCity. This will then show NY residents just how bad socialist programs will destroy the city. He needs to get elected and he will show how to destroy a city in less than 4 years. NY voters will find out that the govt run grocery store will be a joke and cannot survive. Please elect the Madman!!!
zohan mammaridani would be barefoot if slip-ons hadn’t been invented.
NO IDIOT’S WHO ILLEGALLY FIRE THE GUNS ARE THE CULPRIT’S
PLEASE TELL KAHANNA THAT I AM CALLING HIM STUPID.
Thank the Education Department for the “STUPIDITY” we see in the young voter. Brainwashed to believe that the ELITE will share equally. FREE STUFF NO WORK REQUIRED
Most voters are merely fools at best.