In an interview on Theo Von’s podcast This Past Weekend, Mamdani warned that if the American Dream is just an ideal that’s out of within reach, then people may start to give up.
The democratic socialist compared it to legendary NYC Mayor Fiorello La Guardia’s observation during the rise of fascism in Europe, saying people turned away from democracy not because they were tired of liberty, but because they were tired of being hungry.
“So if democracy doesn’t mean the better life that it has to, it’ll lose its worth. And the same thing with the American Dream: if it’s something you can only see when you turn on your TV or you hear about that one guy you grew up with who made it, that doesn’t mean enough,” Mamdani said.
More than one thing can be true.
I’m just not seeing the goodwill to society from the current billionaires. They’re all ratfucks but at least of yesteryear they tossed us a bone or two.
You didn’t see it from Carnegie either…
Why the fuck can you not understand this?
They were laying the groundwork so their descendants can say “wealthy businessmen know better than anyone else”.
Look at our fucking president, he is the direct and natural consequence of people not understanding what you can’t. The difference is most of them didn’t have someone desperately trying to help them realize the most basic part of that
But at this point, I’m throwing in the towel on you.
I hope someone can explain this to you later, if not then hopefully you’ll at least stop repeating the same billionaire propaganda people have been falling for this time.
Like, you can manage that, right?
If you won’t learn how to help us, at least stop fucking helping the billionairez.
Can you do that for the 99.99999% of humans on the planet?
Someone’s angry lol.
I mean I’m angry at the billionaires too, but why be angry at me? I’m all about class consciousness and not feeding the machine… but me a) not being American, b) merely suggesting some goodwill from the massive resource extraction by the billionaire class. Why you hating the player and not the game?
I’m just trying to understand where the Epstein class lost their fear? Where are the third spaces like arboretums and libraries being built today by them? I don’t see it. Maybe they had fear back then because they had to see their neighbours faces everyday, now we’re so disconnected.
But yes, please attack me more it helps us so much.