Who, him?
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Robert Spencer, PJMedia:
AP Cheerleads for Mamdani, Lies About His Record
It is hard to believe at this late date, but there are still people out there who trust the establishment media and rely on it for accurate news. Yet the establishment media continues to go from bad to worse, becoming ever more obviously a propaganda organ for the hard left. Now the Associated Press (AP), which like so many others was once a reliable news source and today is a source for little, if anything more than Democrat Party talking points, has published a lengthy defense of Zohran Mamdani, the Twelver Shi’ite Marxist who is very likely the next mayor of New York. He really isn’t as bad as Orange Man Bad and the other evil right-wingers say, you see.
The fact that the AP article even exists is astounding in itself. For how many candidates does AP provide this service, of reassuring jittery supporters and answering objections, so as to make it easier for those who read the article to vote for the candidate in question? It has likely done this sort of thing for all manner of leftists, but has AP ever provided a helpful explainer detailing how, say, Donald Trump is not really a fascist dictator in the making, or a pawn of Vladimir Putin, or the leader of an “insurrection”? To ask the question is to answer it.
Regarding Mamdani, however, AP pulled out all the stops on Saturday, assuring those hapless few who still take it seriously that poor little Mamdani is really not all that bad: “President Donald Trump calls him a ‘communist.’ His critics say he wants to defund the police. Zohran Mamdani insists he’s just a guy trying to make New York City more affordable.” Aw, the poor guy! What could be wrong with that?
AP gives us the truth behind those nasty attacks from patriots, explaining that “while Trump and other opponents keep calling Mamdani a communist, he identifies as something different: a democratic socialist. He believes government should play a role in reducing economic disparity, but he doesn’t advocate for a communist system where property is collectively owned.”
From the AP article cited by Spencer:
Zohran Mamdani’s been called a communist who’ll defund the police. Here’s where he actually stands
He’s a democratic socialist, not a communist
While Trump and other opponents keep calling Mamdani a communist, he identifies as something different: a democratic socialist. He believes government should play a role in reducing economic disparity, but he doesn’t advocate for a communist system where property is collectively owned.
And here’s what the Democratic Socialists of America actually say about that: abolish private property!
We in DSA are in a pivotal position thanks to the tens of thousands of people who have joined our ranks. We can play a leading role in a revolutionary upheaval. But we need to continue and redouble our efforts to organize the working class, and our DSA folks at Anchor Steam deserve huge credit. And we need to continue our own education in revolutionary socialist politics, not reformism where we just aim at making the US economy look more like Denmark’s. Thanks to our Education Committee, we have made a great start.
Let me conclude with a short quote from Marx and Engels: “Our concern cannot simply be to modify private property, but to abolish it, not to hush up class antagonisms but to abolish classes, not to improve the existing society but to found a new one.”
That’s what we’re all about!
Indeed they are: and that’s also what Mandami is all about, all the whitewash applied by the Flying Monkeys of the press notwithstanding.