Mamdani Says Socialism Will Give You "Whatever You Need"

 

Recently, while speaking to podcast host and “comedian” Theo Von, New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani once again lauded Socialism. Von stated of the American Dream: “It used to feel like if you did enough work, you did this, and you did these things, you could have a life, you could have an existence… This is a slow boiling of people’s ability to have peace…” He then went on to talk about increases in rent outstripping that of income. For the record, it is progressive policies that have led to substantial increases in rental costs, whereas it is conservative ones that lead to increases in income and discretionary spending ability.

Von then asked Mamdani to define Socialism. Mamdani replied, “Socialism, to me, means that you will have whatever you need to live a dignified life, and that it is the government’s job to deliver on that.” WTF?! How did we get to the point where a clown like this could be taken seriously, let alone be elected to run the financial capital of the nation…if not the world. Talk about economic, human, and historical ignorance!

No, government may be able to give you what you need to survive (free crackpipes?) while simultaneously taking the fruits of others labor away from them…and robbing you of your drive, dignity, and dreams. As such, it is doubly pernicious and always leads to poorer and less free societies-- economically, spiritually, and intellectually.

Government has one overarching function: to protect every individual’s inherent rights, granted them by the Creator…most specifically from usurpation by government. These “negative” rights are sacrosanct. We have the right to life, liberty, and happiness. In other words, we have the right not to be arbitrarily killed or imprisoned by government…or to have our property and opportunity taken from us by government. We have the right to free speech and assembly. The right to protect ourselves by bearing arms. A right to a jury of our peers. Etc. The government, then, is also charged with protecting these rights from abuse by others.

There are no “positive” rights, such as the “right” to be healthy, the “right” to be wealthy, the “right” to be wise, or the “right” to our neighbor’s property or wife. That isn’t the way life works, nor should it, whether looked at Biblically, logically, from an evolutionary perspective, or any other way.  

Yet Democrats increasingly disdain our actual, God-given, inherent (negative) rights in favor of preposterous and illusory positive ones. They do this because it gives them more power. The less people are allowed to do for themselves, the more government “must” do for them. The more government must do for some, the more it must do to others. Like confiscate their earnings or limit their speech. Or punish them for objecting to its actions.

So, you can be certain that the more free stuff politicians promise us, the more they are looking at us like cattle to be herded and kept, fenced in until we are eventually led to the slaughter. Whether that be of our liberty, dignity, or person…or all of the above.