Zohran Mamdani

Charles Fourier  (1772-1837)

Speculating on politics is a little like the stock market though you don’t always get payback in terms of money, if you pick a winner. In fact, if you like free bus fare and no rent increases, somebody is going to pay the piper. Socialism is a dirty word to Republicans, but is individualism really curtailed when ifJeff Bezos ore the world’s richest man, EM, are left with say 20 billion each. Why do people need so much money? Zohran Mamdani’s victory is a test. The  Bernie Sanders AOC tour was impassioned, but what about the radical centrism of the much maligned and highly humane Joe Biden? Meanwhile the failure of Cuomo's cynical negative campaign tactics is another nail in the coffin of the Democratic political machine.

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