{"id":335863,"date":"2025-10-27T10:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/335863\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T10:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T10:57:12","slug":"even-bernie-sanders-admits-mamdani-wont-have-all-the-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/335863\/","title":{"rendered":"Even Bernie Sanders admits Mamdani won’t have all the answers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Standing in line for the \u201cNew York Is Not for Sale\u201d rally<\/a> at Forest Hills Stadium Sunday evening meant dealing with a gauntlet of Revolutionary Communists of America reps hawking their newspaper. The headline? \u201cSick of Capitalism: Gen Z Wants Revolution \u2014 Time to Organize.\u201d<\/p>\n

It felt like Elaine Benes\u2019 communist boyfriend Ned Isakoff had planned the festivities.<\/p>\n

Vermont\u2019s Sen. Bernie Sanders, NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez headlined a \u201cNew York Is Not for Sale\u201d rally at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens Sunday Erik Pendzich\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n

And while the rhetoric on stage wasn\u2019t as explicitly commie, the event headlined by Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani was a verbal bonfire of the rich. An admonishment of capitalism.<\/p>\n

Never mind that two of the featured speakers criss-cross the nation in private jets. Nor that Mamdani himself is rich.<\/p>\n

The biggest bogeymen for this crowd were two of the borough\u2019s most prominent sons: President Donald Trump and Mamdani\u2019s mayoral rival Andrew Cuomo.<\/p>\n

\t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKirsten Fleming<\/p>\n

Any mention of them, or the word \u201cbillionaire,\u201d and the place went wild \u2014\u00a0booing, hissing and chanting, \u201cTax the rich.<\/a>\u201c<\/p>\n

\u201cSaturday Night Live\u201d comedian Sarah Sherman served as MC, and she cracked jokes in between introducing union leaders, including a Starbucks barista who railed against that company\u2019s CEO, Brian Niccol: \u201cHis wealth comes at the expense of workers like me.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outside the rally, reps for the Revolutionary Communists of America hawked the group\u2019s newspaper. NY Post\/Kirsten Fleming<\/p>\n

Democratic Socialists of America members, including State Senator Julia Salazar and Rep. Claire Valdez, urged audience members to join their ranks.<\/p>\n

\u201cZohran didn\u2019t come from nowhere \u2014 he came from our movement,\u201d said Valdez, giving us a chilling reminder that Mamdani is a Trojan horse ushering in all kinds of far, far left DSA policies.<\/p>\n

Then the \u201cResistance Revival Chorus\u201d took the stage to sing their banger \u201cWhich Side Are You On?\u201d They were joined by City Comptroller Brad Lander who, unfortunately, danced alongside them like no one was watching.<\/p>\n

Gov. Kathy Hochul also took part in the rally at Forest Hills, which holds 13,000 people. William C Lopez<\/p>\n

I instantly knew which side I was on \u2014\u00a0the one that doesn\u2019t allow that goofy boob to join the chorus.<\/p>\n

AOC drew massive applause when she said the city was built by Irish people fleeing famine, Italians escaping fascism, Jews seeking shelter after the Holocaust, and blacks escaping Jim Crow laws.<\/p>\n

But there was no talk of the great things those people accomplished in New York City. Nothing about the Big Apple being a place where ingenuity and grit are rewarded and nurtured.<\/p>\n

The event essentially doubled as a campaign event for New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani. AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n

In fact, there was nothing about progress. Only hitting the rich in their bank accounts.<\/p>\n

Fresh off revealing that his hijab-wearing aunt was the real victim of 9\/11<\/a> because she allegedly got some dirty looks on the subway (though it\u2019s not clear if he actually had a hijab-wearing aunt in the city),<\/strong> Mamdani took the stage to the type of applause a rock star receives.<\/p>\n

He regularly invoked the money that others are spending against his campaign. <\/p>\n

Lobbyist Andrea Benites showed up in a DIY version of AOC\u2019s 2021 Met Gala dress, with \u201cTax the Rich\u201d scrawled across the back. NY Post\/William C Lopez<\/p>\n

Luckily, the crowd was far more interesting. I met a father-daughter duo from Queens who were attending their first rally. John, a retired federal agent, is a Republican fed up with MAGA and starting to move in the direction of his lefty daughter Rebecca, an actuary. I found their family outing charming, even if I disagree with their politics.<\/p>\n

Social worker Grace Downs came out because of concerns about affordability and healthcare. She told me that \u201cZohran is charismatic and represents millennials.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lobbyist Andrea Benites showed up in a DIY version of AOC\u2019s 2021 Met Gala dress, with \u201cTax the Rich\u201d scrawled across the back.<\/p>\n

Father and daughter John and Rebecca attended the event together NY Post\/Kirsten Fleming<\/p>\n

I share many of their concerns about affordability. But neither socialism nor letting a novice nepo baby run the city is the solution.<\/p>\n

Sanders essentially admitted as much in his speech, saying his young acolyte \u201cwon\u2019t have all the answers\u201d \u2014 adding that Mamdani would \u201cneed your help every single day\u201d if elected.<\/p>\n

\u201cPlease do everything you can to work with Zohran to make him and his administration the best in the history of New York,\u201d Bernie said.<\/p>\n

But isn\u2019t that why we should elect someone who has experience and understands how to make the machine of city government hum? New Yorkers don\u2019t need to wake up and think about helping a hapless socialist mayor. We have enough to worry about.<\/p>\n

We must elect someone who is actually ready on Day One. Not a theater kid who has been playing one during his campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Standing in line for the \u201cNew York Is Not for Sale\u201d rally at Forest Hills Stadium Sunday evening…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":335864,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[11338,5229,10635,9642,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,5341,1269,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,5301],"class_list":{"0":"post-335863","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-alexandria-ocasio-cortez","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-bernie-sanders","11":"tag-campaigns","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-nyc-mayoral-election-2025","20":"tag-opinion","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-us-news","27":"tag-usa","28":"tag-zohran-mamdani"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115445776123416644","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=335863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335863\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/335864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}