Bill de Blasio shows why socialistic impulses are not made for America

[Klaiden Potugye]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, as you may have heard, made the biggest mistake any elite leftist can. He admitted what he really believes. Lamenting the inability of his government to plan every aspect of real estate in New York City “to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be,” de Blasio identified property rights as the great obstacle to his ambitions. “What’s been hardest,” he said, “is the way our legal system is structured to favor private property.” His comments have attracted a wide range of criticism.

First of all, the mayor of New York City, the financial capital of the world, complaining about capitalism is much like the mayor of Los Angeles complaining about the entertainment industry holding his town back. If not for the centuries long embrace of private property rights in New York City, de Blasio would be mayor of an impoverished fishing village. Second, his indictment of private property seems to stop just short of trespassing his own. There is nothing stopping de Blasio from handing his multiple rental properties over to the New York City government, yet these rental properties continue to net him thousands of dollars every month.

But as out of touch and hypocritical as his statement may have been, it serves as a valuable reminder of what is really behind the current “socialist moment” within the Democratic Party. The media has made cult heroes of left wing radicals like Bernie Sanders, who are hard at work trying to create new generation of socialist extremists by extolling the virtues of failed Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke and New York representative elect Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. De Blasio attributes this radical energy to a “socialistic impulse” in communities of people seeking “things to be planned in accordance” to their needs.

There is an impulse, but it is not socialistic. It is tyrannical, and it is not new. This tyrannical impulse lives within all of us. The desire to set ourselves apart and write special rules for others is the dark side of human nature. It is that immutable impulse, which ever leads men and nations toward ruin, that our Founding Fathers set out to harness and neutralize with the Constitution. They knew no power on earth could turn people into angels. So they consciously devised a political system of divided government and dispersed powers, and cultivated an economic system of free market capitalism, anchored in equal individual property rights.

De Blasio is absolutely right that the great threat to his ideological goals are private property and the rule of law that protects it. What really frustrates him is that in America, everyone else enjoys the same rights he does. That is the real story about the lament of the New York City mayor, and the reason that boomlet socialism is enjoying a surge on the left.

Despite what “fake news” tells you, there is nothing populist about socialism. It has never empowered the “little guy.” In socialist systems, the little guy always ends up in bread lines or behind bars. Nor does it, as conservatives sometimes charge, mire everyone in equal misery. On the contrary, in socialist countries, the wealthy and the connected always make out like bandits. Literally. That is why, throughout history, it is always elites like de Blasio, O’Rourke, Ocasio Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, along with their allies in academia, entertainment industry, and the mainstream media, who lead the charge to push forward this disgraced ideology.

If and when the revolution comes, they expect to be the ones calling the shots. They think they deserve to wield that power over the rest of us deplorables, bitterly clinging to the wrong side of history. Such self satisfied and power hungry elites are exactly the kind of people our Constitution set up to thwart. The frustration expressed by de Blasio is a positive outcome of that system, one we should all be eager to protect.

Source: https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign...de-for-america


True. Just look at Russia and other 14 independent nations.

[Sky High]

don't see a source and I imagine that's deliberate. considering what unfocused garbage this is.

[Kronik85]

Cool story. I thought the answer was because as a deeply Christian nation the idea of helping your fellow man runs counter to everything Jesus taught. At least that's what it looks like from over here.

[Najnaj]

Is this nonsense partially a google translation?

[Nasuuna]

I think op is paraphrasing a Jordan Peterson speech, not sure tho

[Orbitus]

don't see a source and I imagine that's deliberate. considering what unfocused garbage this is.

Here is his source: https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign...de-for-america

An opinion piece from Jim Demint. Leader of the "Tea Party movement". Also, president of the Heritage Foundation. So, that tells you all you need to know. Basically shitgibbon through and through.

[Xar226]

don't see a source and I imagine that's deliberate. considering what unfocused garbage this is.

I had the same reaction.

This guy doesn't like socialist policies. Cool story.

[Vorenos]

some of the best word vomit i have ever read. thanks for this.

[Sky High]

Here is his source: https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign...de-for-america

An opinion piece from Jim Demint. Leader of the "Tea Party movement". Also, president of the Heritage Foundation. So, that tells you all you need to know. Basically shitgibbon through and through.

aaaaand I'm not the least bit surprised. looking at this assholes voting record while he was in the senate... that's a yikes from me dawg.

[Klaiden Potugye]

Anyone who comes from the Eastern Block, and aged 35+ will attest to the truthfulness of that statement.

You don't have to believe it.

But whatever was said in bold is true.

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I see 36 words attributed to Bill de Blasio, and like a thousand devoted to explaining what he "really" means.

One of the worst things about modern journalism is how slanted supposedly unbiased reporting can be. I see this on the other side, where there's an article that's like "Person y decried for racist thing" and the article is like,

"Person y is under heavy criticism for a racist thing. Here's a list of all the people who say that person y is the worst. Here's organizations distancing themselves from y. Here a few quotes. Here's a a paragraph about how it's going to ruin his career.

Here's the underwhelming thing he actually did.

Here's how he's responding to it. Here's people not accepting his response. Here's where we lump him in with other people who've done much worst things."

It's hack, dishonest journalism that provides facts in a way that is designed to elicit a certain opinion.

It is an opinion.

Nothing to do with journalism.

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aaaaand I'm not the least bit surprised. looking at this assholes voting record while he was in the senate... that's a yikes from me dawg.

Jim Demint is an asshole.
And you are highly successful MMO-Champion poster.

Next.

[Sky High]

Jim Demint is an asshole.
And you are highly successful MMO-Champion poster.

Next.

and.. what does that make you? someone who makes insipid threads for the rest of us to laugh at? well done champ, you got us.

[Zoldor]

People who lead social movements do it to gain power over those weaker. That is bad. But letting people with the most money make the rules and dick people over in an attempt to control them through creating laws that benefit those who already have money, is good?

I swear some of the people who write pieces don't bother to see that both sides are going to have shitty people who do things for power. Welcome to the game. But they each think their side would only do things for the good.

Personally, I'd rather see people do things that benefit the larger group of people who have less, than doing things for the smaller group of people that have plenty. Personal thing. Doesn't stop me from attempting to become one of the few with plenty either, despite what so many spout. Again, that is just me.

This article is more poorly written than what I just wrote while watching TV on the other screen and only occasionally glancing over to the text. Get a damn editor.

[Mihalik]

metric tons of idiotic nonsense

What Blasio is talking about is the fact that the City (as in the government of the city) is struggling with meeting the needs of the residents of the city, needs like functioning public services, infrastructure and livable housing because the legislation existing favors developers to the point where reliable urban planning is impossible.

Your word salad OP is fucking retarded.

[kasuke06]

People who lead social movements do it to gain power over those weaker. That is bad. But letting people with the most money make the rules and dick people over in an attempt to control them through creating laws that benefit those who already have money, is good?

I swear some of the people who write pieces don't bother to see that both sides are going to have shitty people who do things for power. Welcome to the game. But they each think their side would only do things for the good.

Personally, I'd rather see people do things that benefit the larger group of people who have less, than doing things for the smaller group of people that have plenty. Personal thing. Doesn't stop me from attempting to become one of the few with plenty either, despite what so many spout. Again, that is just me.

This article is more poorly written than what I just wrote while watching TV on the other screen and only occasionally glancing over to the text. Get a damn editor.

People are never satisfied with what they have, a rich man will always want more money, a politician will always want for greater power.

However money is a fairly transient thing, to be spent and exchanged for goods and services which can enrich many if utilized properly even when consolidated, power is a far worse thing to consolidate as there are far too few instances where someone gives up any of said power willingly, it's so rare that those whom do so are considered legends far after their passing, like Cincinnatus. It's less "our side is truly good and righteous" and more "the slightly lesser of two great evils"

[araine]

Here is his source: https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign...de-for-america

An opinion piece from Jim Demint. Leader of the "Tea Party movement". Also, president of the Heritage Foundation. So, that tells you all you need to know. Basically shitgibbon through and through.

If thats the source well i am sure it is as high quality as those polls from Rasmussen that donny is quoting for his approval rating and same place that said gop is winning the house and being ahead on the generic ballot just a month ago

[Ivanstone]

Jim Demint is an asshole.

Isn't he the coward that resigned from the Senate because Obama won a 2nd term?

Didn't he also get canned from the Heritage Foundation for poor leadership?

[Derpling]

Wow, a low-effort right wing troll post on mmo-champion, there's a rare sight. Surely the mods are going to come down on this shit this time.

[Dendrek]

Jim Demint seems to really dig into the heart of the issues that are plaguing American: like human decency, honesty, and reason. We really need less of those. Thank you, OP, for making sure we could all really appreciate the kind of man Jim Demint is.

[Celista]

I would love for posters like the OP to live in a purely capitalistic society, where you pay tolls for every road, no public libraries or minimum wage exists and every school is a private school. If you spout partisan drivel on par with the sort of rambling you hear from mentally ill homeless people you deserve to work for $0.50/hour.

[Endus]

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, as you may have heard, made the biggest mistake any elite leftist can. He admitted what he really believes. Lamenting the inability of his government to plan every aspect of real estate in New York City “to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be,” de Blasio identified property rights as the great obstacle to his ambitions. “What’s been hardest,” he said, “is the way our legal system is structured to favor private property.” His comments have attracted a wide range of criticism.

Yeah, nothing there has anything at all to do with "socialism", it has to do with central city planning.

But as out of touch and hypocritical as his statement may have been, it serves as a valuable reminder of what is really behind the current “socialist moment” within the Democratic Party. The media has made cult heroes of left wing radicals like Bernie Sanders, who are hard at work trying to create new generation of socialist extremists by extolling the virtues of failed Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke and New York representative elect Alexandria Ocasio Cortez. De Blasio attributes this radical energy to a “socialistic impulse” in communities of people seeking “things to be planned in accordance” to their needs.

Sanders isn't remotely "radical". So the author's a slanderous shitgibbon in addition to being grossly misinformed.

De Blasio is absolutely right that the great threat to his ideological goals are private property and the rule of law that protects it. What really frustrates him is that in America, everyone else enjoys the same rights he does. That is the real story about the lament of the New York City mayor, and the reason that boomlet socialism is enjoying a surge on the left.

No, this is where the author makes up a bunch of bullshit.

Despite what “fake news” tells you, there is nothing populist about socialism. It has never empowered the “little guy.”

He has somehow managed to get this so completely and perfectly inverted from reality that it's almost impressive.

Also, this entire nonsense screed is essentially just projection of the author's own personal authoritarian abusiveness. He can't believe anyone could ever care about other people, solely because he is a raving sociopath.