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New York City has one. So does Seattle. And Burlington, Vt., and Irvine, Calif. But it’s a big step for socialism in the United States, a great leap forward, one could call it, that the nation’s capital will soon have a socialist mayor. Just The News reported Wednesday that “Democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George has a large lead in her bid to become Washington, D.C.’s next mayor. After polls closed Tuesday night, she had secured more than 52% of the vote, compared to Keynan McDuffy with nearly 37% in the city’s Democratic primary, according to local news outlet WTOP.com.”
As you’d expect, the left is celebrating Lewis George’s victory (she will face no significant Republican opposition in November) as a strike at none other than Donald J. Trump. Newsweek quoted one Matthew Dallek, a professor of “political management” at George Washington University, saying that Janeese Lewis George “gives voters the chance to register disapproval and to say, in essence, they want the city to move in a new, more progressive, more left wing and more anti-Trump direction.” Yeah, because Washington has been so pro-Trump, deep red, and patriotic up until now.
Lewis George herself vows to be extremely tough with the evil Orange Man: “My approach to Donald Trump,” she explained, “is one where I set a line that there is going to have to be [that] DC autonomy and DC statehood are non-negotiables, our immigrant community and neighbors, our Black youth are non-negotiables.”
D.C. statehood would, of course, mean two reliably Democrat senators, which is why leftists keep pushing it. If Washington were full of Republicans, Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries and their henchmen would be denouncing the D.C. statehood push as an undemocratic power grab on the part of the “far right.” And the Democrats also need massive numbers of migrants in order to win elections, and so “our immigrant community,” says Janeese Lewis George, is “non-negotiable.”
Newsweek also gives considerable space to a generous helping of blather from the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), of which Lewis George is a member, explaining that democratic socialism is a system in which “ordinary people have a real voice in our workplaces, neighborhoods, and society.” This is what all politicians of all parties say they’ll do, but Newsweek passes it on uncritically, as if all the other political groups in America today are sold out to the rich and powerful elites — which just happens to be DSA propaganda as well.
We also learn this from the DSA: “We want a democracy that creates space for us all to flourish not just survive and answers the fundamental questions of our lives with the input of all. We want to collectively own the key economic drivers that dominate our lives, such as energy production and transportation. We want the multiracial working class united in solidarity instead of divided by fear.” Newsweek helpfully tells us that “DSA members typically support progressive policies like single-payer healthcare and the Green New Deal.”
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David Lakatos says
Socialism turned good citizens into bad ones; it turned strong nations into weak ones; it promoted vice and discouraged virtue. Socialism transformed formerly hardworking and self-reliant men and women into whining, weak and flabby loafers. Defund the Welfare State
David Lakatos says
What does a socialist do when they run out of other people’s money? They collapse the banks and get bail outs. Then the Fed’s print up more money out of thin air to make up the difference.
Wellington says
Socialism is Marxism in slow motion.
tgusa says
Irvine, Calif. From the 1980s back Irvine was an ultra conservative super majority white city. It was known as a city where there was a gun in every nightstand so as expected very little crime. Today Irvine is a majority Asian and I’m not talking about Japanese who have had a presence in Orange county since the 19th century. We all knew the Japanese were Americans. The new crop of Asians there are not Americans.
A primary goal of socialism is to reduce economic inequality. Lol. There are no poor or disadvantaged areas in Irvine. The median household income in Irvine is upwards of 145.000 dollars. Irvine is the only city in South Orange County that is majority Asian and it is the only city there that prefers socialism. I dont trust the new Asians. I never thought they were Americans and it turns out they are not. Socialism emphasizes public or cooperative ownership, economic planning, and social welfare. That’s right, not American. It is a shame that they wont go back to where they came.
40 rounds says
Nothing new here. The electorate in blue cities and states are idiots, Imbeciles, and morons.
OLD GUY says
I’m just thankful I’m old this country is going to s–t. My greatest pain is for my Grand children and Great Grandchildren who will have to fight for their freedom that America once promised.