The democrat party embraces Communism

In 2009 Sen Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said:

“People who enter the United States without our permission are illegal aliens and illegal aliens should not be treated the same as people who enter the U.S. legally. Illegal immigration is wrong, plain and simple. Until the American people are convinced that we will stop future flows of illegal immigration, we will make no progress on dealing with the millions of illegal immigrants who are here now. “When we use phrases like undocumented workers we convey a message to the American people that their government is not serious about combating illegal immigration which the American people overwhelmingly oppose. If you don’t think it’s illegal you’re not going to say it. I think it is illegal and wrong.””

In 2005 Obama said:

“We simply cannot allow people to pour into the United States undetected, undocumented, unchecked, and circumventing the line of people who are waiting patiently, diligently and lawfully to become immigrants into this country.”

That was long ago. The democrat party is now all for open borders, a policy that Joe Biden employed for four years while he whined about not having the power to close the border and the execrable Alejandro Mayorkas for nearly four years repeatedly telling us the border was secure.

 The democrat party has gone so far left that even the center appears far right in contrast.  So much so that there would be no room for past moderate democrats like JFK in today’s democrat party. He was ardently against Communism and the party is right now embracing Communism. They’re dressing it up with flowery terms like “democratic socialism” but remember that Lenin said, “The goal of socialism is Communism.” The goal of today’s democrat party is socialism, the steppingstone to Communism.

Zohran Mamdani is the Communist candidate for mayor. He is riding the popularity wave of social media and wears an omnipresent Cheshire cat grin. He promises everything will be free.

Democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani has catapulted into second place in this year’s New York City mayoral race by promising free buses, no-cost childcare and city-run grocery stores.

He’ll have a tough time paying the tab.

To fund his vision, the state legislator wants to conjure up $10 billion in new revenue through higher taxes on businesses and wealthy New Yorkers. But beneath the sheen of that populist platform is a morass of necessary state approvals that threaten his plans coming to fruition.

The NY Post lays out the likely disaster scenario that would follow a Mamdani election:

Among many other pledges, Mamdani aims to “permanently eliminate the fare” on city buses and to make CUNY “tuition-free.”

These are the cheaper of his giveaways, each with sticker prices just shy of $1 billion.

Of course, nuking fares or tuition doesn’t mean decent service: Many cities that made buses free soon found that they became mobile homeless shelters — and more riders would push up the cost of services, too.

A Mayor Mamdani would have to spend more money than planned, provide less service than promised, or both.

This is basic economics — and Mamdani correctly recognizes that winning elections today hinges more than ever on convincing the electorate to ignore such constraints.

The cost of that ignorance will be massive, and not just because Mamdani’s proposed $9 billion tax hike — a steep jump that would inevitably fuel outmigration — isn’t nearly enough to cover his spending plans.

Worse yet is the extent to which Mamdani risks harming working-class New Yorkers as he attempts to reconfigure the city economy.

His bigger-ticket items — a freeze on rents and “free childcare for every New Yorker” up to age 5, provided at wages “at parity with public school teachers” — are so enormously extravagant that his campaign hasn’t even ballparked their totals or economic impacts.

Both would be guaranteed to cause major market distortions, with working New Yorkers as collateral damage.

Freezing rents on the city’s regulated units would do nothing to address the city’s fundamental housing problem: its supply shortage.

In fact, by discouraging existing tenants from leaving their sweetheart deals, it would make it harder for others to find a place to live.

There’s more at the link.

One of the more entertaining Mamdani proposals is city owned grocery stores. Kansas City experimented with this and it did not fare well:

Kansas City is staring down a failed experiment. Nearly a decade ago, the city spent $17 million to buy and renovate the Linwood Shopping Center on Prospect Avenue. The anchor tenant, Sun Fresh Market, opened in 2018 with fresh produce, seafood, and a full-service deli. It was supposed to end the food desert. It’s now on life support.

The store lost $885,000 last year. Shelves are bare. Refrigerators sit empty. Foot traffic collapsed from 14,000 weekly to under 4,000. The city injected $750,000 in emergency funding this spring. That money was meant to restock inventory and fix broken air conditioning. It hasn’t reversed the trend.

“I mean this is silly,” Catsimatidis told Fox News. “The same con game happened in Cuba with Fidel Castro. The same con game happened in Venezuela. [You] promise people everything. You’re going to get everything for nothing.”

“Well, the people in Venezuela are starving,” Catsimatidis explained. “The people in Cuba are starving. It’s just one big con game. And I think the American people, I think New Yorkers, especially New Yorkers, they’re smart, they’re going to realize this right away.”

Mamdani is a wild-eyed privileged idealist nepo baby who has never really had significant employment. Mom and Dad are quite wealthy. His youth and grandiose promises are reminiscent of Che Guevara and Fidel Castro, and that seems to be an appeal to the democrat party. Of course, he has the support of the lunatics in The Squad. Pramila Jayapal:

Jayapal, after AOC’s breakfast meeting with Mamdani:

Any Democrat not endorsing this “incredible, dynamic leader is missing an opportunity.”

What are you waiting for @RepJeffries @SenSchumer pic.twitter.com/C1klcGOwFm

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) July 16, 2025

 

But more are joining. Mamadani has been embraced by two significant members of Congress: Elissa Slotkin and Elizabeth Warren.