Raising generations to love communism pays off for NYC radicals (06-25-2025--Hour2)

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And when you layer into that an education system from K through twelve and then the collegiate level that teaches about all of the promises of socialism and communism and all of the ills of the dirty capitalists, or as I call it, the free market. And remember you are the free market. So when when kamis disparage capitalism and free markets, they are disparaging you and your choices. When you choose a certain you know, food product at the grocery store over another, that is a market signal. You have the freedom to choose, and you chose, you know, maybe the organic eggs over the non organic eggs, and that sent a signal to egg producers. And if enough people say they want the organic over the non organic, or vice versa, then producers will produce more of the thing that you said you wanted. And when more of those things are produced, the price drops. And when you have competitors that come in and saw those market signals and say, oh, we should offer some of our own organic eggs and will get a good chunk of that market share, that then drives prices even lower. In the person who benefits is you, the consumer, Because the producers read your market signal, your choice, You are the free market. We should try to stay free. Now. Some may say paid this mayor guy up or he's not the mayor yet, but the g hottest adjacent communist up in New York City who won the Democrat primary last night, Zoororn Memdani. Oh, you're just saying communist as a slur, And yes, that is true. I absolutely use communist as a slur because it is a slur. It is such a bankrupt and evil ideology. But he's not really a communist. I mean, he's just a socialist. He's a Democratic Socialist of America. That's who he ran under. That that was what he is, a DSA member, just like AOC. Yes, but see you cross a line, like you can pretend that you're just a socialist when you're really a commie, and you could pretend that you're I just like some socialism. Look, I'm a democratic socialist. That's the touchy feely, lovey dove kind of socialist. We're the non threatening socialist. Right. I don't make any distinction really between these people because I don't believe they actually are simply socialist. But in this guy's case, it's very clear when you say you're going to run the grocery stores, that GOVC is going to run the grocery stores. That's communism. That is what that is. Okay, government run food supplies. And luckily we have enough history where we know what happens when GOVC takes over the food supply. People starve to death, either intentionally mostly not usually because gov Co doesn't know a thing about running a grocery store, right, people who work for the government, they don't know how to run a grocery store. You know who knows how to run grocery stores? People who run grocery stores. Yeah, so unless you're going to what now You're going to force all of them to go to to be government employees. So the government is now controlling the means of production for the supply of food to the people. What could go wrong, except, of course everything as it historically does. Michael Hought writing at Liberty Affair dot com, he says, this is more than a local election. I completely agree, and that's why I'm That's why I'm covering this today. I was aware of the New York City primary going on up there. I was like, oh my gosh, I got Cuomo again. Whatever, But there wasn't any real impact on us in Charlotte, So it didn't it didn't rise to the level of, you know, show prep worthy material. But after what happened last night, when this Kami won, now it is now it is important for us because it's not just a local election, and Michael hought I think puts his finger on it. He says it is a cultural and ideological bell weather for where the urban left is heading. And we are controlled here in Charlotte by the urban left right democrats who are running our city. This is where they are tacking to. So we need to look at these other cities to see what they're doing and how it's working out to know what's coming down the pike for us. The urban left is heading deeper into redistributionist dogma, hostility towards markets, and a worldview that romanticizes struggle while ignoring the wreckage that follows it. Ma'm Danny is not hiding what he believes. His campaign has openly championed housing as a quote human right, the dismantling of capitalism again in America's number one financial city, as well as the public takeover of essential services. The public takeover which just means essentially nationalizing it or municipal it no different. Right, you're going to take over control of these things, and it's no different than say Venezuela taking control of the oil industry. And by the way, you know what happened down there when they did that they didn't know how to run an oil industry. Stuff broke, supply chains got all screwed up, and people started starving because there's no cash flow coming in any longer. So these are not pragmatic tweaks to an imperfect system, he writes, They are revolutionary goals rooted in a utopian ideal that has never worked in practice anywhere. But that's because it hasn't been tried real socialism, he says. The trouble with utopia is that it always sounds better than reality. By the way, he points out, you know where the word utopia comes from. You know what it means. Where the word comes from. It's entomological roots comes from the Greek ou topos. You know what that means. No place. Utopia is no place. It does not exist. It's never one of the options on the table. Beware of anybody promising you it. Shakespeare understood this long before Karl Marx ever penned a word. He said later on in the piece, Again, this is from Liberty Affair dot com. Mendan's rise is a warning New York is falling for the oldest political mirage of all, the idea that equality can be engineered by decree, that wealth can be redistributed without cost, and that freedom can coexist with centralized economic control. But these dreams always collapse under their own contradictions. Look at cities already walking the path. Here's a great idea. How about making an escape to a really special and secluded getaway in western North Carolina. Just a quick drive up the mountain and Cabins of Asheville is your connection. 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Or about London in the nineteen seventies before Margaret Thatcher reversed its economic death spiral. Here's the key. Socialism survives not because it works, but because it flatters the resentful and it absolves the irresponsible. It flatters the resentful and it absolves the irresponsible. That's the Democrat Party, as reflected in that mayor. In the mayor's race, the people that were celebrating the most were your offles, the awfls, affluent white female liberals. In fact, you've got anywhere from seventy to eighty percent of college quote unquote ed educated whites voting for socialism. That tells me the problem is the colleges. It is the education system. And I've been saying this for years. If you don't think American culture is worth defending, this is the road you are on. And if you are ignorant of this fact, that's one thing. But there are a lot of people in K twelve education and in the college setting that are not ignorant of this. This is in fact the goal. They're activists. First, they are following Vladimir Lenin's axiom that if you give me just one generation of youth, I'll transform the whole world. What was he talking about. He's talking about the revolution requires the youth. And how do you use the youth? You pump their young skulls full of mush, as Rush would say, with all of this collectivist crap. You raise up an army of activists and radicals and street thugs that go out and you bust out windows of police stations, take over areas of the town for any given reason, on any given night, you chaz chops and all of that. Why because you are dismantling the infrastructure of oppression Western civilization. That is what is required. And there's a reason why you target the youth. It's because they are ignorant, they are impressionable. That's why you're supposed to be teaching them. What are you teaching them? Are you teaching them that America is a force for good or America is inherently evil? What are you teaching them? Because when you teach somebody one of those messages throughout their entire academic life, during all their formative years, and you teach them that these things are true when they may not be then that is indoctrination. And I know people on the left and people in the middle, and even some Republicans cringe at the use of that term, but that is in fact what it is. So socialism survives not because it works, but because it flatters the resentful. How come he has money and I don't, right? Why do they think that every rich person inherited their wealth. They don't deserve their wealth. You've got people who made their own money, people who built up you know, corporate empires and did it from poverty. And you don't get to do that in a socialist nation or communist country. You don't get to do that. Right, But that's the promise of the free market, is that if you work hard and you play by the rules, you will have a comfortable life, you will stay out of poverty, you'll be able to provide. Right. But then along the way, we we say you have to go to college, and now we're going to saddle you. Dare I say, enslave you with one hundred two hundred thousand dollars in debt that you'll never be able to get out from under. And so that now hampers your ability to provide for the rest of your life. That breeds resentment, and whose idea was that it did not come from the right, that came from the left, resentful, and so they are flattered by socialism. It flatters the resentful, makes them feel better about Oh yeah, look at you. This is virtue signaling. This is moral preening, right, this is I'm not ahead. I didn't get ahead, not because of me, not because of any of my decisions, not because i'm you know, ordering door dash for every single month and spending an extra ten bucks a pop. It's not me, it's the system. The system is to blame. Well, why don't we tear it down? The system. Oh, that's a great idea. Then I'll get ahead. That's the only thing. This other person has all the money and they're keeping me from being successful. And then it also absolves the irresponsible. It's not your fault. It's not your fault that you chose to buy a seventy thousand dollars car rather than pay off your student loans. That's not your fault. It's not your fault that you're paying for the door dish rather than you know, cooking it home and living below your means. In other words, not living beyond them, not spending more than you take in. That's not your fault, that's the system. Let's overthrow the system. Huh. Becomes a very attractive message, particularly if you're young and you've grown up in a society that has a lot of wealth like we do. We are. We are the wealthiest nation that has ever existed on the face of the planet ever. Ever, kids grow up younger, kids are growing up with more material goods then I had as a Gen Xer, but I was probably the last generation, right. My parents grew up with even less than I had, And so now there is this sort of baseline status quo understanding of what a normal life is. I covered this a couple of weeks ago. With the average size of a home, it's like twice as big as the average home sizes of thirty years ago. Well, if you grew up in a house that's twenty five hundred square feet for bed, two and a half bath, double car, garage, and a quarter acre lot, you're going to think that's normal, and then you're going to expect that you should be able to buy that when you buy your home. Jen x Aer, here my first home, nine hundred square feet free bed, one bath, very no garage. It's perspective, right, and a lot of kids growing up they don't have this kind of perspective. They feel guilty that they come from wealth, that mom and dad are giving them a lot of money. They look around, they see people that are struggling and they feel like, oh, I should do something, I should help them. I feel bad for them, but I don't want to do anything actually myself. So I'll just say tear the system down and can't someone else do it? The famous election slogan of Homer Simpson when he was running for superintendent of Sanitation in Springfield. Can't someone else do it? And that's what Govko does. That's what it promises. Oh, we'll do it for you, and then you can feel good about yourself because you put me in charge. Yeah, that's the false siren song right there of all authoritarianism. All right, if you're listening to this show, you know I try to keep up with all sorts of current events, and I know you do too. And you've probably heard me say get your news from multiple sources. Why Well, because it's how you detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed with ground News. It's an app, and it's a website, and it combines news from around the world in one place so you can compare coverage and verify information. You can check it out at check dot ground, dot news slash pete. I put the link in the podcast description too. I started using ground News a few months ago and more recently chose to work with them as an affiliate because it lets me see clearly how stories get covered and by whom. The blind spot feature shows you which stories get ignored by the left and the right. See for yourself. Check dot ground, dot news slash pete. Subscribe through that link and you'll get fifteen percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan to get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then not only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground News as they make the media landscape more transparent. Again. This is from Liberty Affair dot com, written by Michael J. Hout or hoot Hout. He says socialism survives not because it works, but because it flatters the resentful and absolves the irresponsible. It tells the struggling that somebody else is to blame. It turns envy into a platform, and in an age of rising urban discontent. It sells beautifully, but what it never does is build. Socialism does not build. Russ writes in at on Twitter. The problem with let them go full socialist mode and they'll never win another election again is that the moonbats do keep when elections in enough little pockets that it's starting to spill out to affect state wide and nationwide. From good Wahoo, Pete. Regarding Mamdani Democrat primary victory in New York City. People keep saying he can't get elected in the general election because of the very large Jewish population in New York City, But they fail to understand that most Jews are secular or reform slash liberal, and many are very leftist and even supporting the pro Palestine agenda. So I would say that many will vote their politics over their lineage, and New York City may be about to go the way of London with its disastrous first Muslim mayor, Sadik Khan. Okay, And then that's a message about TikTok So all right, here's another tweet from mich Dellinger. It's a Pete tweet. Hey, Pete. Parents may not teach this to their children, but the schools do through the sixteen nineteen project and critical race theory, et cetera. So parents really need to be aware of what their children are being taught and ask their children questions. Oh, completely agree this from Bakeman Glenlow. This new mayoral candidate is more likely working to end future tourism to New York City. Yeah, I mean it's a bold strategy, Cotton. We'll see how it pay us off. Nate Silver, the guy who created five thirty eight dot com numbers guru dude right. He now writes over at natesilver dot net. He had some analysis on this race. Incumbent Mayor Eric Adams, who left the Democrats to run as an independent. He's still in the general election. Republican nominee Curtis Sliwa, the founder of the Guardian Angels. He won the GOP nomination. He was unopposed, but it's New York City, so a Republican is probably never going to win there. And unlike the primaries, the general election does not use ranked choice voting, which is why, by the way, we still don't know the official vote counts from last night, and we may not know the official vote counts for days or maybe weeks because of this stupid ranked choice voting thing that New York City did New York City standards. On voter turnout. By New York City standards, the turnout yesterday was relatively high. Okay, so they got around one point zero seven million votes in the primary. That's still a minority of New York City's three point three million registered Democrat voters, but it's higher than the turnout in the past six mayoral primaries, where initial vote totals ranged from three hundred and thirty thousand back in two thousand and nine to nine hundred and forty two thousand in twenty twenty one. Again, this is another problem when you have a city that is completely controlled by one political party, is that voters don't really care. Primary elections end up deciding the general election races, and the primary voter turnout is much lower. This from the Party of Democracy, right. They're all about the democracy, unless, of course, it hampers their ability to organize enough people to overtake an establishment candidate and take control of the gears of the Democrat Party machinery. And that's what the radicals have done. They are taking over the machinery of the Democrat Party. And if you're expecting liberals to fight back against that, you're insane, because they don't. This gets to the old Dennis Prager axiom. Dennis Prager says that leftists vote their principles and Republicans conservatives vote their principles, but liberals do not. Liberals don't. They will vote for the leftists, and the reason why is because they never want to acknowledge that they might be closer to the conservative position than they actually are. They don't want to acknowledge it. They don't want to say that I'm closer to the Republicans or Conservatives on an issue, so they vote for the leftists. And that's what we're seeing happening. So to explain Andrew Cuomo's defeat, Nate Silver breaks this down into four categories. Number one, that he ran a terrible campaign. Number two that Mamdani is a uniquely talented candidate with lots of voter engagement slick commercials. He cranked out a lot of short form videos and for the kids that have tiny attention spans and not a lot of historical knowledge, this works very well. Also, he had an understanding of the rank choice voting system and use that against Como, that this shows there's an appetite. Another explanation is that this shows an appetite for leftist candidates. Mamdani is a proud member of the Democratic Socialists of America, but he sort of cracked the code is that you have to emphasize cost of living issues rather than the culture wars. So he took a page from Donald Trump, right, say focus on the economic stuff, cost of living issues, which are always going to be issues in cities controlled by Democrats because the cost of living is sky high because Democrats. So you focus on those things and say I can do it better. I can run these levers, I can pull these levers and press these buttons and in those knobs better than the Democrats. And finally, the other explanation for Cuomo's loss is that it demonstrates how the democratic establishment is out to lunch with much of it. Back in Cuomo, who was an obviously flawed candidate who came to prominence because of his family name. He hasn't lived in New York City in decades, and his preferred bagel order consisted of an English muffin. Yeah, that was a that was a thing. I was like, who was the guy that ate a slice of pizza with a knife and fork. Remember trying to remember that candidate. There was some candidate, and it may have been builde Blasio. Considering the margin and the breadth of Mendani's victory, all of these four explanations are probably true to some extent, maybe a large extent. But Clomo's campaign produced a laundry list of endorsements like Bloomberg Michael Bloomberg, former mayor, former President Clinton, former Majority whip Jim Clyburn, lots and lots of unions. The New York Times, which can be incredibly influential in the city, issued a half hearted anti zoron Mamdani endorsement, half hearted after initially swearing off involvement in local races, encouraging voters to rank Cuomo toward the lower end of their ballot. But Ma'm donnie not at all. Okay, So, like they said, don't put this guy on your rank choice voting thing. But we don't even really get into these issues, you know, which is weird because you're the New York Times, you know, so with all this backing, how did how did this happen? You know? Stories are powerful, They help us make sense of things, to understand experiences. Stories connect us to the people of our past while transcending generations. They help us process the meaning of life and art. Stories are told through through images and videos. Preserve your stories with Creative Video started in nineteen ninety seven and Minhill, North Carolina. 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Mem Danny, I always have to have it in front of me because we'll just mangle it otherwise. So Cuomo's campaign had this laundry list of endorsements. New York Times did a half hearted anti Zorn op ed or endorsement. It was like, they don't vote for him, vote for these other people. Put Cuomo lower on your list. Whatever, But we don't, you know, we don't like getting involved in local races again. The New York Times, which is bizarre, the Clinton's clyburn, The New York Times, the unions, Cuomo had, Black groups, Jewish groups, Italian groups, every other stripe of the rainbow that was supposed to be a winning formula in New York. But the old formula does not compute anymore. It's hard not to be reminded of the past three presidents races, and particularly the Democrat establishment forcing and eat your spinach choice down the throats of the primary electorate. It was Hillary Clinton's turn to win the nomination in twenty sixteen, after she'd lost to Obama in eight and she heavily emphasized this in her campaign. Democrat party leaders right then boosted Joe Biden in twenty twenty Cliburne's endorsement did that. Then Democrats made a catastrophic error by failing to seriously challenge Biden in twenty twenty four until it was of course too late. Right, you had mary An Williamson and Dean Phillips, but they were like, like, we're going to run in a primary, Like I know what primaries. Remember, they shut all that down, and to us it's comical because democracy. But to a Democrat voter, that would hack me off, right, Like, I can see the problems with this guy, with Joe Biden. We need to have a primary, and the party says no. Then of course the party forces Joe Biden out after the debate and instead of doing this you know, mini primary or accelerated primary. Remember they were talking about doing that for about a second and then they were like, Nope, not going to do that either. We got it. We already got Michael Jordan sitting on the bench. Let's go ahead and bring her in. It's Kamala Harris. Look at all the joy they gas let us over that Cuomo, like Clinton, was from a political dynasty that most people under the age of forty have little or no affection for. And although Bernie is an exception, maybe it's not that complicated. Right. If you want to inspire young voters, then you nominate younger candidates, and Mendani, at age thirty three, is literally half Cuomo's age. In the mayor's race, Cuomo trotted out the same boilerplate tired themes, including a heavy emphasis on Donald Trump, but that had also failed Hillary Clinton, It failed Joe Biden in twenty four, it failed Harris rather than the local issues that mayoral races often turn on, right, races are determined at this local level. Could you imagine a Charlotte mayor's race, or pick any city, any town you live in that the mayor's race is about Trump. That would be asinine. But that's the campaign that Cuomo ran. So Nate Silver says that Zoran thoroughly earned the win, and Cuomo and the Democratic establishment thoroughly earned the loss. And even if they finally take the hint, generational turnover in the Democrat Party is coming, whether they like it or not. And along those lines, I would add, y'all raised a generation of Jihati adjacent socialists, So good luck with that Democrats, and godspeed to the rest of the country that's now going to have to clean up your garbage. You thought these people would just work the streets, work the polls for you. They would turn out voters for you. Right. They would protest Donald Trump if he came to town. You could organize a flash mob to stop ice deportations. Right. They were very helpful for your operations. And that's the thing about feeding the alligator in the hopes that it eats you last. It does eventually eat you. All Right, that'll do it for this episode. Thank you so much for listening. I could not do the show without your support and the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast, so if you'd like, please support them too and tell them you heard it here. You can also become a patron at my Patreon page or go to vpetecleanershow dot com. Again, thank you so much for listening, and don't break anything while I'm gone.