I generally hold Meidas in high regard but am disappointed in the softball interview of Mamdani. It's easy to rant about authoritarians, corporate and oligarch beholden stooges and promise a "chicken in every pot". Who wouldn't want "rent freezes for over 2 million New Yorkers, free and fast buses, universal healthcare", but I didn't hea…
I generally hold Meidas in high regard but am disappointed in the softball interview of Mamdani. It's easy to rant about authoritarians, corporate and oligarch beholden stooges and promise a "chicken in every pot". Who wouldn't want "rent freezes for over 2 million New Yorkers, free and fast buses, universal healthcare", but I didn't hear a word from an obviously ideologically motivated but inexperienced prospective manager about how to pay for that. Will there be a real estate tax, property insurance, fuel and utility and labor contract freeze to enable the non-predatory landlords to continue to provide much needed low cost housing, or are we to assume that all landlords are predatory profiteers who can afford to absorb rapidly increasing expenses without increased rent. Is he drinking the same koolaid that Trump is that businesses can absorb his arbitrary, irrational, punitive, tariffs without increased prices? AND I didn't hear any explanation for his virtual holocaust denial and support for the authoritarian, anti-humanist Hamas oppressors of the Palestinians who would, if they could without being murdered by Hamas, probably like the Iranians, choose to live under Israeli rule rather than their own corrupt terrorist regimes. Mamdani doesn't yet talk the talk, let alone know how to walk the walk. Unfortunately, there's much much less disagreement about the problems than there is about the solutions. Like DOGE, if the car has a flat tire drive it off a cliff. Mamdani is just another promise 'em anything to get them to vote against their own interests.
I generally hold Meidas in high regard but am disappointed in the softball interview of Mamdani. It's easy to rant about authoritarians, corporate and oligarch beholden stooges and promise a "chicken in every pot". Who wouldn't want "rent freezes for over 2 million New Yorkers, free and fast buses, universal healthcare", but I didn't hear a word from an obviously ideologically motivated but inexperienced prospective manager about how to pay for that. Will there be a real estate tax, property insurance, fuel and utility and labor contract freeze to enable the non-predatory landlords to continue to provide much needed low cost housing, or are we to assume that all landlords are predatory profiteers who can afford to absorb rapidly increasing expenses without increased rent. Is he drinking the same koolaid that Trump is that businesses can absorb his arbitrary, irrational, punitive, tariffs without increased prices? AND I didn't hear any explanation for his virtual holocaust denial and support for the authoritarian, anti-humanist Hamas oppressors of the Palestinians who would, if they could without being murdered by Hamas, probably like the Iranians, choose to live under Israeli rule rather than their own corrupt terrorist regimes. Mamdani doesn't yet talk the talk, let alone know how to walk the walk. Unfortunately, there's much much less disagreement about the problems than there is about the solutions. Like DOGE, if the car has a flat tire drive it off a cliff. Mamdani is just another promise 'em anything to get them to vote against their own interests.