Quote:A former AOC supporter has a warning for young New York voters who are dazzled by Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s socialist promises: “These policies don’t make cities fairer; they make them poorer.”

Mamdani has been criticized for his radical plans to transform the city and for how he proposes paying for it, including hiking property taxes for “richer and whiter neighborhoods.”

Mamdani has also waged a longstanding campaign aimed at defunding the New York Police Department, which he claims is designed to “control black, brown and poor New Yorkers.”

Mamdani has proposed a myriad of ways of spending taxpayer money on a litany of leftwing objectives, but not everyone is buying his snake oil salesman pitch.

In a post on X, Lucy Biggers warns young people about the reality of all the ‘free goodies’ being promised.

Biggers, who works in media, told The New York Post she “helped propel AOC from a virtual unknown to political juggernaut in 2018.”

Now, Biggers is a homeowner and a mother of two in Connecticut and sees things differently.

Per The Post:

She said the pandemic and the impact of government spending was a big turning point.

“As you grow up, you start to see the world less black and white. You can’t sell this bill of goods that promises to create a utopia in America,” said Biggers, who works in the city.

“There’s a glorification of socialism among young people. They don’t know what happened in Cuba, Venezuela, the USSR. They glamorize these countries and are indoctrinated into thinking the US is bad. It’s very naive . . . it’s embarrassing,” she said, reflecting on her own views back then.

“When I was 25, I would’ve been obsessed with Zohran Mamdani,” Biggers wrote on X.

“At 27, I helped get AOC elected. I made a viral video about her campaign, met her a bunch of times, and was totally bought in.”

“Now I’m 35, and I’ve grown up. The feel-good promises of free college, free food, free housing might sound great, but they don’t work.”

“I get why young people love Zohran. I really do. They’ve been indoctrinated into the belief that capitalism is the problem. They want to fight inequality, make a difference, and vote for the good guy.”

“But the road to hell is paved with good intentions. These policies don’t make cities fairer, they make them poorer. The people who are supposed to foot the bill leave, and the rest of us are stuck with higher taxes, more regulations, and less to show for it.”

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(07-06-2025 11:58 AM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  

Quote:A former AOC supporter has a warning for young New York voters who are dazzled by Mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s socialist promises: “These policies don’t make cities fairer; they make them poorer.”

Mamdani has been criticized for his radical plans to transform the city and for how he proposes paying for it, including hiking property taxes for “richer and whiter neighborhoods.”

Mamdani has also waged a longstanding campaign aimed at defunding the New York Police Department, which he claims is designed to “control black, brown and poor New Yorkers.”

Mamdani has proposed a myriad of ways of spending taxpayer money on a litany of leftwing objectives, but not everyone is buying his snake oil salesman pitch.

In a post on X, Lucy Biggers warns young people about the reality of all the ‘free goodies’ being promised.

Biggers, who works in media, told The New York Post she “helped propel AOC from a virtual unknown to political juggernaut in 2018.”

Now, Biggers is a homeowner and a mother of two in Connecticut and sees things differently.

Per The Post:

She said the pandemic and the impact of government spending was a big turning point.

“As you grow up, you start to see the world less black and white. You can’t sell this bill of goods that promises to create a utopia in America,” said Biggers, who works in the city.

“There’s a glorification of socialism among young people. They don’t know what happened in Cuba, Venezuela, the USSR. They glamorize these countries and are indoctrinated into thinking the US is bad. It’s very naive . . . it’s embarrassing,” she said, reflecting on her own views back then.

“When I was 25, I would’ve been obsessed with Zohran Mamdani,” Biggers wrote on X.

“At 27, I helped get AOC elected. I made a viral video about her campaign, met her a bunch of times, and was totally bought in.”

“Now I’m 35, and I’ve grown up. The feel-good promises of free college, free food, free housing might sound great, but they don’t work.”

“I get why young people love Zohran. I really do. They’ve been indoctrinated into the belief that capitalism is the problem. They want to fight inequality, make a difference, and vote for the good guy.”

“But the road to hell is paved with good intentions. These policies don’t make cities fairer, they make them poorer. The people who are supposed to foot the bill leave, and the rest of us are stuck with higher taxes, more regulations, and less to show for it.”

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Good for her. I'm so glad I never bought into the gooey eyed feel good Communist BS when I was in my 20's. I can't say the same for some people that I know in their 30's and 40's.

This kind of stuff makes me feel really good about my own daughter. She never went through any of the crap poor Lucy did because she had a daddy that brung her up right. Her mom didn't hurt anything either. She's soon to be 44 and has been, is now, and always will be the apple of her daddy's eye. She can do no wrong and generally doesn't. She's raised two kids with the same young man she started dating when she was 14 and he was 18 (unbeknownst to me, it explains why he was deathly afraid of me). They've been married since she was 18.

I was blessed with two kids who responded well to my disciplinarian ways. I never had to bail either of them out of jail which is more than my daddy could say about me, lol.

(07-06-2025 01:10 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  This kind of stuff makes me feel really good about my own daughter. She never went through any of the crap poor Lucy did because she had a daddy that brung her up right. Her mom didn't hurt anything either. She's soon to be 44 and has been, is now, and always will be the apple of her daddy's eye. She can do no wrong and generally doesn't. She's raised two kids with the same young man she started dating when she was 14 and he was 18 (unbeknownst to me, it explains why he was deathly afraid of me). They've been married since she was 18.

I was blessed with two kids who responded well to my disciplinarian ways. I never had to bail either of them out of jail which is more than my daddy could say about me, lol.

lol ... can relate across the board ('cept my daughter just turned 26) ... she's also never been to clinker, nor had a donkard itch in her being ...

@peaceInMind

Welcome to the real world Lucy. Better late than never, I guess.

(07-06-2025 02:10 PM)stinkfist Wrote:  

(07-06-2025 01:10 PM)TigerBlue4Ever Wrote:  This kind of stuff makes me feel really good about my own daughter. She never went through any of the crap poor Lucy did because she had a daddy that brung her up right. Her mom didn't hurt anything either. She's soon to be 44 and has been, is now, and always will be the apple of her daddy's eye. She can do no wrong and generally doesn't. She's raised two kids with the same young man she started dating when she was 14 and he was 18 (unbeknownst to me, it explains why he was deathly afraid of me). They've been married since she was 18.

I was blessed with two kids who responded well to my disciplinarian ways. I never had to bail either of them out of jail which is more than my daddy could say about me, lol.

lol ... can relate across the board ('cept my daughter just turned 26) ... she's also never been to clinker, nor had a donkard itch in her being ...

@peaceInMind

I do not know her personal situation, but having children tends to create maturity and a broadening of time horizon and recognition of the consequences of present acts on the future of their children.

It is no accident that a distortional number of radical leftists are single, wealthy, childless, white women able to afford fleeing from or securing against hellish dystopias they polices promote.