“Take on the billionaire class, take on oligarchy. That’s how you win elections.”
So boomed Senator Bernie Sanders with regards to a stunning upset achieved by Uganda-born radical – Zohran Mamdani – in New York City.
Meanwhile, a large swathe of the nation is still reeling from the stunning upset pulled by a Ugandan radical in New York City during the recent Democratic primary for the mayorship.
Mamdani, who began with effectively zero support, mysteriously surged pass Andrew Cuomo, the former New York governor who made a bid for the mayorship.
And he surged so spectacularly in the overall vote that Cuomo apparently conceded before all the ballots were tallied.
So much for every vote counting.
That said, radical Sanders, one of the more obvious, aspiring communist elites is beside himself with delight over the militant’s win.
After all, Mamdani was pitched by both Sanders and AOC … when they weren’t busy taking private jets to their “Fight Oligarchy” tour, that is.
And Sanders did not take long to publicly gloat … while also suggesting that the Democrat Party was bound to go down like Titanic.
Yes, Sanders actually compared the future of the Democrat party to the future of the Titanic … a troubling analogy, to say the least.
According to a lengthy, “wide-ranging” interview published by Politico, Sanders gleefully gouged the Democrats following his successful “influence” in shaping the outcome of the mayoral race.
“I think that the Democratic leadership is way out of touch. That’s not just me. As you indicated, that’s what the polling shows and it’s true. The American people – Democrats, independents, Republicans – understand that there is something fundamentally wrong when we have massive income and wealth inequality, massive concentration of ownership,” Sanders asserted.
What Sanders conveniently leaves out is the fact that he himself is well ensconced in the “millionaire” class that is very much part of the “wealth inequality” he claims to despise.
“What Mamdani and I and others are talking about is the kind of change that benefits the working class of this country and is prepared to take on the billionaire class that has never, ever had it so good. That’s what the fight is about,” Sanders continued.
Right. As long as Sanders is not making any major sacrifices, that is.
Then Sanders opted to become even more condescending, chiefly by claiming that the Democrats still “have a lesson to learn.”
“I think [the Democrats] have a lesson to learn, and whether or not they will, I have my doubts. If you look at the dynamics of this campaign, what you have is older folks voting for Cuomo, the billionaire class putting in millions of dollars into Cuomo, all of the old-time establishment candidates and politicians supporting Cuomo, and he lost. So, either you learn a lesson that says, hmm, the other guy, Mamdani, got young people excited. He got young men excited. He created a strong grassroots movement,” Sanders added.
And if the Dems don’t? What is the way forward after that?
“What is the way forward for the Democratic Party? To me, it seems fairly obvious. Whether the current Democratic leadership is prepared to learn that lesson or not, I have no idea. Probably not. They’re probably more willing to go down with the Titanic than to move in a new direction,” Sanders asserted.
Well then. That’s a happy prediction.
And it looks like an outcome of “Titanic” proportions has already occurred.
As noted by Politico, Mamdani’s win “triggered a political earthquake by moving toward a decisive win in New York’s Democratic mayoral primary race.”
On his part, Mamdani apparently labeled Sanders as “the single most influential political figure in my life.”
Words that will no doubt terrify anyone remotely sane … given Mamdani’s rather questionable ideologies, to put it mildly.
Author: Jane Jones
