Let's Scare The Rich

And vote for Zohran Kwame Mamdani....as a start

Unidentified apartment door in New York City last week

With boring predictability the pearl clutching has begun. Headline in The New York Post two days after Zohran Mamdani won the Democratic primary for Mayor of New York City:

Here’s the problem with their paper-selling panic. Let’s remember that a significant portion of those luxury apartments sit empty most of the year because they are either a second (or third or fourth) home or an investment property while over 4,000 people in this city are sleeping on the streets nearly every night. Another extremely pertinent - and completely overlooked not to mention inconvenient - truth is that the market for multi-million dollar homes with spectacular views has been glutted for years now. In 2018 the Post itself was wringing its inky hands over the fact that millions of dollars worth of the most valuable real estate in the country was vacant and buyer-less.

And that was certainly long before any reader of tea leaves was predicting how a 33-year old Democratic Socialist Muslim would clobber that scion of New York politics, Andrew Cuomo. To be fair, Mr. Cuomo did a lot of the work himself by having resigned in disgrace four years ago amid multiple scandals.

It’s hard to gauge who is freaking out more strenuously over Mamdani’s win in the primary, the Fox news crowd or the MSNB lovers. Certainly the Democratic establishment is circling the wagons and loudly trying to comfort the donor class. We’ve seen this movie before. It was crystal clear in 2016 and again in 2020 that the Clinton Obama machine was far more worried about Bernie than the failed real estate developer who ultimately won. Look where that got us.

What is not hard to gauge is that the money pulling the strings behind all the garment rending in the media and across much of the social media-verse is being spent by the ones who know they are right to be afraid. The 0.01% has been capering around the world in their private jets, on their massive luxury yachts, and quietly building well-stocked bunkers and compounds against this day. They have been expecting pitchforks, torches, and portable guillotines.

What they weren’t expecting is that we’d organize around a candidate who clearly represents our interests. Shocking, I know.

Who would have thought a smiling, well-spoken young man born in Uganda who speaks Urdu at home with his Oscar-winning mother would be the stuff of their worst nightmares? They did not see this coming. And now that Zohran Mamdani has shown himself to have the backing of We The People, it’s inevitable that the mud will start being slung.

The mud and the money.

Billionaire, darling of Zionists, and all around fun guy, Bill Ackman is scrambling to find someone, anyone (that he approves of, naturally) to run against Mamdani in the general election in November. Money, of course, is no object.

The terror of the wealthy for the rest of us is nothing new. But as they say in the old country, those who forget the past, etc, etc, etc.

Speaking of remembering the past. Let’s take a moment to recall exactly who was considered “essential” in 2020 when the world shut down due to the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Billionaires, millionaires, and folks with multiple homes were clearly not essential (news flash: they still aren’t). The people working in the stores, on the transit system, in sanitation, and in the hospitals were and still are. The sick irony, of course, is that the most essential workers were also the least valued and millions of the very folks we all rely on in our daily lives died of this disease.

There may have been about twenty minutes there when the wealthy got a glimpse of what their world would look like without their staff and all the millions of people underpinning them. Some of the more aware took a look at what the Black Death did to the prevailing socio-economic system of feudalism in the 14th century and started a run on panic rooms in their floor-through penthouses.

But Operation Warp Speed settled their nerves as they saw the majority of us line up obediently to get vaccinated.

Clearly, however, their nerves aren’t all that settled even though most of us now experience Covid as a particularly troublesome cold rather than a death sentence. Even before Mamdani and AOC we had Occupy Wall Street. The rumblings have been rumbling for a very long time. Have the rich paused to consider how fortunate they are that this time We The People seem to be channeling our rage through voting?

They may have the money and the military but they also know that there are far more of us than them. What some of them are beginning to wake up to is the fact that they can’t actually live without us.

They’re right to be afraid.

We do have the power and it’s long overdue that we exercise that power and rid ourselves of a political class - Schumer, Jeffries, Gillibrand, et al, that’s you - who meekly rolls over, doing the bidding of their donors.

We have started by getting out into the street to canvas for a candidate who appears to be speaking up for our interests. There’s much more we can do and maybe this time we’ll follow through and do it. Take a page from the Tea Party’s play book and fill school boards with our voices, take over local government and make sure everyone sleeps indoors with enough to eat.

The political party that ensures people’s day to day lives are noticeably improving is going to be the one to come into power and stay there. We The People say so.

And if that doesn’t work, there’s still the guillotine. Just sayin’.

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