At the Institute for Political Economy, Paul Craig Roberts reacts to the recent election of Zohran Mamdani in New York City and analyzes the reasons it happened and the potential outcomes. He writes:
New York, once the financial capital of the world, has fallen, according to the narrative, to the communist agenda of an immigrant-invader from Kampala, Uganda. But perhaps that is only Mamdani’s pose assumed in our woke era to gain access to wealth that comes from the political award of contracts. Regardless, the electorate’s choice of Mamdani shows a complete change in outlook and a Democrat Party that has moved outside the American tradition.
I remember when the Democrats’ political constituency consisted of the poor and the working class, now disparaged as “the Trump deplorables.” Today the Democrats’ political constituency is college-educated women and weak men who have accepted their subordination in the interest of a career. Whereas once Democrats focused on confiscating income and wealth from the successful (who were referred to as “fortunate”) and redistributing it to the unsuccessful (called “less fortunate”), they now confiscate the earnings and wealth of citizens to support immigrant-invaders. This and other such word tricks pushed the questions of merit and citizenship out of the picture. For women the issue was one of the caring against the hard-hearted. See here.
Today Democrat political constituencies are focused on redistributing the incomes of American citizens to illegal aliens. Not only do Americans who support themselves also support 42 million Americans who do not or who are gaming the system, they also support the 14 million immigrant-invaders that the Obama and Biden regimes policy of open borders imported into America.
While these devastating trends were developing, Wall Street and corporate executives exported American manufacturing jobs to Asia and Mexico, thereby dismantling the ladders of upward mobility that had made the US an opportunity society. Today the focus of the Democrat Party is on opportunity for immigrant-invaders. Democrats fight tooth and nail to prevent the federal government from deporting illegals. Indeed, Democrats want illegals to have voting rights, and Democrat judges have ruled that proof of citizenship is unnecessary in order to vote. Essentially, Democrats have no conception of the United States as a nation. Indeed, they are hostile to those who think that citizenship and the US Constitution have meaning, dismissing both as tools of white supremacists.
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