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   From: Dawn.Belle.Flood@gmail.com   
      
   On 11/7/2025 9:10 AM, Rudy Canoza wrote:   
   > This is not Zohran Mamdani’s America. Even for New York City’s size, its   
   > politicians always get outsize attention because so much of the national   
   > media is headquartered there. A charismatic socialist won the mayor’s   
   > race by capitalizing on a wheezing Democratic establishment typified by   
   > the skeezy Andrew Cuomo. But in practice, most Americans, Democrats   
   > included, do not want the wares Mamdani is peddling.   
   >   
   > In addition to the victories of self-styled moderates in the Virginia   
   > and New Jersey governors’ races, four solidly blue municipalities   
   > underscored this on Tuesday with their own off-year elections. While   
   > largely overlooked, these results offer a pill to fight the fever dream   
   > that if socialism can win in New York, it can win anywhere.   
   >   
   > The people of Austin want to keep their city weird, but not at any cost.   
   > Years of providing substantial support to the homeless, but not a   
   > pathway out of homelessness, have made the university town a magnet for   
   > vagrants who sleep on the streets. To keep up with rising demand for   
   > public services, the profligate city council (which recently spent $1.1   
   > million on a new logo) voted 10-1 to approve a 20 percent increase in   
   > property taxes. Fortunately, state law requires voters to approve such a   
   > large hike.   
   >   
   > The Democratic Party in Travis County, which Vice President Kamala   
   > Harris carried by 39 points last year, endorsed the proposition by a   
   > two-thirds vote. But the residents of Austin voted it down Tuesday by 27   
   > points. Progressives like to talk about more spending as “investments”   
   > because pollsters tell them that sounds more palatable. But taxpayers   
   > aren’t fools. Democrats successfully coalesced around a message of   
   > “affordability” in these elections. Now, they’ll have to make good on   
   > it. Austin shows how buzzwords can’t pay for expensive policies. Tax   
   > hikes inevitably make life less affordable.   
   >   
   > https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/06/election-results-   
   > austin-detroit-minneapolis-nantucket-mamdani/   
   >   
   > Most Americans don't want "democratic socialism" any more than they want   
   > Trump's fascism. They don't think government grocery stores are the   
   > answer to anything.   
   >   
      
   As long as fossil fuels last, what you have pointed out will be true;   
   however, when our storehouse of ancient sunlight is, finally, gone, the   
   proletariat are not going to starve.   
      
   Dawn   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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