New York Democrats just nominated the most radical nominee for mayor in the country’s history. Self-described socialist Zohran Mamdani appears to be on a glide path to being the next mayor of America’s largest city — and anxious business owners and entrepreneurs are wondering if they should escape the city, while they still have the chance. Mamdani has spoken about his “end goal of seizing the means of production.”
That’s not the end of the craziness. Mamdani has previously said that New York “need[s]” to make an actual communist politician in India the next NYC Mayor (that’s not an exaggeration, check it out yourself here). If elected, Mamdani plans to defund the police in New York and even describes a plan to raise property taxes on white people.
Mamdani’s signature policy proposal is a plan to create government-run grocery stores throughout the city — just like they had in the former Soviet Union. If you are skeptical of this proposal, you aren’t alone. This idea hasn’t just been tried in the Soviet Union, but also Venezuela and Cuba, and it always ends in the same way: food shortages and breadlines. But in case you’re still on the fence about this uniquely bad idea, just ask yourself: Do you really trust the same people that run the DMV to be responsible for putting food on your family’s table?