Our Future President Bill de Blasio Wants to Do This Special Thing for America

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In early September, we offered one of the proofs that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is a communist. While there is plenty of evidence, such as his love of the Sandinistas, promotion of wealth redistribution, police-hate, Christopher Columbus-hate, Founding Fathers-hate, high taxes and Progressive everything, he gave it away himself in a New York Magazine interview – the one thing that proves it.

Dial it forward for a moment. Bill de Blasio’s inaugural was marked this month by his promise to spread his Progressive agenda beyond his borders. That means upstate and Long Island and the entire country. He says he has a mandate with more than 60% of the vote; however that’s 60% of the 20% who came out to vote.

He has a dream — to be President.

During his first inauguration, he promised to go national with his hard-left agenda and recently, he berated Hillary Clinton for not going full hard-left.

He thinks she would have won the presidency if she had fully adopted the complete Progressive mantra.

That takes us to our proof. Only months ago, de Blasio argued for a planned economy and the abolishment of private property. This is the one thing he would like to do for the United States – take away our inherent right to own private property.

Who’s the Hitlerian again?

He argued against private property on basis of “each according to his needs.” [Bold by author]

QUESTION: In 2013, you ran on reducing income inequality. Where has it been hardest to make progress? Wages, housing, schools?

DE BLASIO’S RESPONSE: What’s been hardest is the way our legal system is structured to favor private property. I think people all over this city, of every background, would like to have the city government be able to determine which building goes where, how high it will be, who gets to live in it, what the rent will be. I think there’s a socialistic impulse, which I hear every day, in every kind of community, that they would like things to be planned in accordance to their needs. And I would, too. Unfortunately, what stands in the way of that is hundreds of years of history that have elevated property rights and wealth to the point that that’s the reality that calls the tune on a lot of development.

I’ll give you an example. I was down one day on Varick Street, somewhere close to Canal, and there was a big sign out front of a new condo saying, “Units start at $2 million.” And that just drives people stark raving mad in this city, because that kind of development is clearly not for everyday people. It’s almost like it’s being flaunted. Look, if I had my druthers, the city government would determine every single plot of land, how development would proceed. And there would be very stringent requirements around income levels and rents. That’s a world I’d love to see, and I think what we have, in this city at least, are people who would love to have the New Deal back, on one level. They’d love to have a very, very powerful government, including a federal government, involved in directly addressing their day-to-day reality.

It’s not reachable right now. And it leaves this friction, and this anger, which is visceral. I try to explain the things we can do. It’s a little bit of a Serenity Prayer — let’s talk about the things we can fix. The rent freeze we did reached over 2 million people. In 2015 and 2016, the mayor’s appointees ruled that new one-year leases on rent-stabilized units could not increase. I’ve talked to people who were going to be evicted, and we stopped the eviction by giving them a free lawyer. And I’ve talked to people who got affordable housing under our plan for 200,000 apartments.

DeBlasio is also said to be a very nasty boss. How very statist of him.


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V.Lombardi
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V.Lombardi
6 years ago

He calls for massive theft, he wants to be a criminal like we have not seen since Mao & Stalin. There is no moral, ethical or logical basis for theft. But it can buy voters.

Francis W. Porretto
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Francis W. Porretto
6 years ago

That such a man should have won re-election to the mayoralty of the greatest city on Earth, especially given the many dirty deals he pulled off in his first term, is a scandal that defies proper condemnation.

It’s been said, by A. E. Van Vogt among others, that people always get the government they want. If this is what the residents of New York City want, they can have it…but please, folks: keep it for yourselves. Normal Americans want none of it.

V.Lombardi
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V.Lombardi
6 years ago

My guess is that he had lots of help from the media and ignorant voters.

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Ignominious
6 years ago

Literally the face of the enemy. Years and years of government school indoctrination has brought us millions that aggressively want communism and even more that lack appreciation for our liberty.
The communists are truly collapsing us from inside as they planned.