Socialists & Killer Bacteria Never Die

Letter to Ephesians: Socialism never dies to those wanting free stuff but history shows Marx’s generous promises always fail to deliver. WSJ explains NYC Mayoral candidate Mamdani’s rise via Camus’s bacterial allegory in “The Plague,” i.e., proponents “never disappear for good” & simply lie dormant.

The paper’s anecdote by Allysia Finley led off an op ed “Living in Zohran Mamdani’s America" after asking, “How did socialism rise from the dead & what can freedom-loving Americans do about it?” Several reporters weighed in but Ms. Finley’s response will do here as she concedes, “New York City may be where the plague of socialism returns after biding its time in Ivory Tower bookshelves.” Her solution: “The most effective antidote may be to let progressives experience the pestilence firsthand. Socilism’s strongest opponents in America are immigrants who suffered under it in their native countries. Its most enthusiatic supporters are well-to-do young people who have never experienced privation and don’t know what life was like behind the Iron Curtain – nor are they taught about it in school. When Mamdani’s $30-an- hour minimum wage means they have to pay $30 for an expresso martini—or worse still, watch their neighborhood Trader Joe’s close – they'll sober up.”

I dunno. The socialist “hits” & “flops” keep coming. Take Chicago’s MASSIVE budget shorfall due to a growing list of woke (and bankrupting) free stuff entitlements that Fox News says “put spotlight on Mamdani’s socialism agenda for NYC.” A separate WSJ editorial quoted a recent study concluding a $1,000 guaranteed annual income to students’ parents had little if any lasting impact. What again did Camus mean by parasites never die?

Davd Soul