New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani made a Fourth of July address in which he described America as a “nation of contradictions” where “children go to sleep hungry” and “masked agents” oppress brown people.
“250 years presents a rare opportunity for more than 340 million people to turn together, both towards one another and towards ourselves, to take measure of who we are as a nation,” Mamdani began his address, flanked by overweight women, some of whom wore headscarves, and various “people of color.”
Notably absent was a representative of America’s white men.
The “powerful,” Mamdani said, view America as an “arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal.”
“America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit. How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal.”
He continued by talking about the politics of division, and repeated attempts throughout American history to divide the people, only to enrich “the powerful.”
“At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics and the cheapest. But time and again, including 250 years ago, though those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress.”
He then described America as a “nation of contradictions,” where “monopolies… dominate every industry” and “oligarchs… buy elections.”
“As we mark 250 years, what do we see? We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world—one where children go to sleep hungry while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more,” Mamdani said.
The Trump admin’s immigration policies came in
“We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with callous dirt-streaked hands, those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone. And we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few.”
Mamdani then attempted to define what America really is, in opposition to the corporate raiders, landlords, politicians and immigration agents who oppress and exploit working people.
“Yes, we see America in a health insurance industry that exploits the sick, but that is not all we see when we look for America. We see it too in the nurse who works a double shift and then stops on her way home to check on an ailing neighbor. Yes, we see America in corporate landlords for whom negligence is a business model. We see it too in the father who tucks his children into bed beneath a ceiling stained with leaks, but wakes before dawn to go to work, and still believes his country can do better by his family. Yes, we see America when we spend our tax dollars on bombs and bailouts, when we sell our elections to the highest bidder. Yet we see it just as clearly in every American who still believes this country belongs to we, the people.
“We see America each time neighbors link arms with neighbors without asking how long they have lived here or what papers they have as ICE invades our neighborhoods. We see America each time those young and old stand in the beating rain or the stifling heat to cast their ballots. We see America each time working people demand more, not just for themselves, but for their fellow Americans. There are some who respond to those who ask for more from America with a simple refrain: love it or leave it, they say.”
Mamdani ended his address by suggesting patriotism is not about “pretending our nation is without flaws,” but instead comprises “every act of righteous dissent.”
Mayor Mamdani has come in for sharp criticism from President Trump in recent days, who called him a “communist” and said he wants to “completely destroy the traditional American way of life.”
Speaking a week ago at the hotel where an assassination attempt was foiled during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, the President warned that radical leftwingers want to destroy America and its traditions.
“This is the most serious threat to our country since its existence, in my opinion, 250 years ago,” Trump said.
“They will close your churches in this country, if they go communist, and they’re trying to. They will kill your people, and that’s what they’re about. They want to end religion, they have to end religion, because their ideology doesn’t work if you have strong religion.”
President Trump referred to the recent elections in New York, in which three radical candidates won their primary races thanks to endorsements from New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
“And as you saw with the communists elected in New York City recently, they’re communists; they’re not social democrats. They want to completely destroy the traditional American way of life.”
President Trump continued by explaining that communism “is very easy to sell”; although its effects are devastating.
“You‘ll live in squalor, there will be no food, there will be no housing, there will be no military, there will be no law and order, there will be no nothing. You’ll be a third world inhabitant in every way. And everyone will suffer or die.”
President Trump also said that this has been “happening for thousands of years…by different names.”
And in remarks made at Mount Rushmore on Friday night, President Trump said, “You can be loyal to Karl Marx, or you can be loyal to America. You can be a communist or a Patriot—you cannot be both.”
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With an IQ to match 💩