Porteroso said:
whiterock said:
Harrison Bergeron said:
Porteroso said:
He realized that much like himself, Mamdami has grand ideas for helping people, but really doesn't know what the Constitution says about governance, really has no idea when these ideas have been tried before, or how well they worked, and doesn't care.
That's some killer analysis B&G. You have to be the
smartest ****** at the Klan meeting.
note her presumption that all leftists are well-intentioned, rather than stone cold ideologues intent on revolutionary changes.
Mamdami is even more privileged and entitled than you are giving him credit for. To think that he was swayed by the ideology of a revolutionary intellectual is giving him far too much credit. He is a mama's boy little pimple of a politician who just moved to America and doesn't have any idea why people live in poverty, in such a prosperous country.
You are right that he is a child of privilege.
But you are under playing the role radicalism plays in his family…you know the people who raised him since he was a child
[His father, Mahmood Mamdani, is a Marxist professor of African history at Columbia University, and his mother, Mira Nair, is a filmmaker and an anti-Israeli activist.
They gave Zohran the middle name of "Kwame," after Kwame Nkrumah, the African dictator who was so admired by the Communists in the Soviet Union that they gave him the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962. This was not an odd choiceit made perfect sense given the politics of Zohran's parents.
Zohran has long been immersed in his father's writings, most of which are standard Marxist critiques of Western civilization. But it appears his mother's Indian ancestry has also had an impact on him; he follows Indian politics quite closely.
In 2020, at age 21, Arya Rajendran was elected the mayor of Thiruvananthapuram, the capital of Kerala. She is a member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) or CPIM. Zohran tweeted her a congratulatory note, calling her "Comrade," which is classic Communist lexicon describing an ally. ]