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Buffalo's presumptive next mayor is a socialist who admits she hasn't studied socialism since grade school, says it can be 'super confusing' | Blaze Media

India Walton — the up-and-coming socialist politician poised to become the next mayor of Buffalo, New York — admitted recently that she hasn't studied the controversial political theory since grade school.The 38-year-old community activist scored a surprise victory in the city's mayoral...

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Meet India Walton, the newly elected Mayor of Buffalo who ran as a socialists. However, when asked about socialism, the ideology she identifies with, she says she has not really studied in since grade school and can't really pontificate about it. When the interviewer then suggested she should then identify as a progressive democrat instead, she backtracks and says, no, because democrats have failed to deliver to the populace what she thinks is due them. Instead, she says she is just for putting people ahead of profit. She then goes on to say that the rich folk need to be convinced to share more of their wealth with the poor folk. But does she really care what they think? The "rich", I'm sure, does not include her or those she is politically allied with, like Biden or Pelosi. The rich are merely her political opponents that need to be forced to surrender their wealth in order to weaken those that oppose them politically.

But it is striking that Leftists who identify with socialists do not study socialism in terms of ideology or history. If they did, they would not be socialists. Making a profit is actually mandatory for survival.

 

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Socialism is just one of those feel good terms to use saying you want to "serve the people". There is very little introspection on what it actually delivers.

In essence, people need to believe that utopia is possible. They need to believe the world can become "good" for everyone. But what they end up doing is selling into a lie that has been propagated since Marx.

Just how many failed attempts at utopia will suffice to understand it is a lie?

But I digress.

 

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Socialism is just one of those feel good terms to use saying you want to "serve the people".

 

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I think the Left has problems with other terms like making people to a willing servant verses a slave.

After all, in all the movies slaves were called servants.