In an interview on Theo Vonās podcast This Past Weekend, Mamdani warned that if the American Dream is just an ideal thatās out of within reach, then people may start to give up.
The democratic socialist compared it to legendary NYC Mayor Fiorello La Guardiaās 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.
āSo if democracy doesnāt mean the better life that it has to, itāll lose its worth. And the same thing with the American Dream: if itās 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 doesnāt mean enough,ā Mamdani said.
More than one thing can be true.
Iām just not seeing the goodwill to society from the current billionaires. Theyāre all ratfucks but at least of yesteryear they tossed us a bone or two.
You didnāt see it from Carnegie eitherā¦
Why the fuck can you not understand this?
They were laying the groundwork so their descendants can say āwealthy businessmen know better than anyone elseā.
Look at our fucking president, he is the direct and natural consequence of people not understanding what you canāt. The difference is most of them didnāt have someone desperately trying to help them realize the most basic part of that
But at this point, Iām throwing in the towel on you.
I hope someone can explain this to you later, if not then hopefully youāll at least stop repeating the same billionaire propaganda people have been falling for this time.
Like, you can manage that, right?
If you wonāt 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?
Someoneās angry lol.
I mean Iām angry at the billionaires too, but why be angry at me? Iām all about class consciousness and not feeding the machineā¦ 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?
Iām 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 donāt see it. Maybe they had fear back then because they had to see their neighbours faces everyday, now weāre so disconnected.
But yes, please attack me more it helps us so much.