_WHAT’S HAPPENING_

The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is promoting a policy platform that would cost between $71 trillion and $212 trillion over the next decade.

Yet as recent revelations expose, the organization's most prominent members are bankrolled by wealthy parents while railing against property ownership and capitalism.

_THE FACTS_

  • DSA NYC co-chair Gustavo Gordillo lives in a $1.5 million Brooklyn row home his parents bought through a dummy corporation.

  • Gordillo's parents own a $3.1 million home in Boca Raton and another $3 million property in Florida.

  • The Yale graduate has called for land redistribution "from landowners to the landless" while benefiting from his family's real estate holdings.

  • NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani (D) opposes Airbnb while his wealthy parents have listed their Ugandan compound on the platform for eight years.

  • The Mamdani family estate features a 15-meter lap pool, armed security guards, housekeepers, and a private cook.

  • DSA strategist Morris Katz allegedly stopped paying rent on a $5,700/month luxury Brooklyn apartment, with his wealthy parents eventually settling the debt.

  • Katz later held a top position on Graham Platner's failed Senate campaign.

  • The Cato Institute estimates the DSA platform would cost between $71 trillion and $212 trillion over the next decade.

  • As Cato states: “Confiscating every dollar of high-end wealth and corporate profits would cover only a fraction of those costs.”

_OUR TAKE_

Marxism being championed by wealthy kids with soft hands has become so common it borders on cliché. These trust-fund socialists have never experienced financial hardship, and simply role-play as working-class champions while their parents pay for their luxurious lifestyles.

Their $200 trillion agenda perfectly expresses their worldview. The Democratic Socialists have no idea how money, markets, or spending work, so they devise grand plans — reminiscent of AOC’s Green New Deal — that have a price tag so large it stops having any real meaning.

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Halley B2 months ago

Yes, Americans need to realize that almost all Dems are hypocrites, “rules for thee but not for me,” and these DSA reps are the worst of the worst. They spend their lives in bubbles and elitist universities where they discuss what they think are brilliant theories that make them “virtuous people” (likely their way of coping with the internal knowledge that they are actually bad spoiled brats) but without real world exposure, don’t understand why they never work. They need to be exposed.

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Mary Verkuilen2 months ago(edited)

It definitely does. It’s hypocritical and doesn’t tell the young people supporting these idiots the full true story. They are telling everyone that it’s shameful to own money yet they are living off other people’s money (their parents) while trying to trick others into giving up their money and commit financial suicide. It’s despicable and they should be called out on it at every opportunity. Dont fall prey to the dangers of the DSA or their partners in crime the Islamists. Just because “young people” like it doesn’t mean it’s the intelligent thing to do. Brains are not fully developed until around age 25! This is an existential ideological war. We are fighting for our very souls. Get out and vote! At least vote independent if you can’t bring yourself to vote republican. Vote to gut the Democrats and the DSA to bring them back to reality.

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Q C2 months ago(edited)

Voting "independent" is the same thing as voting "democrat." It's similar to "splitting the vote" and allowing the Democrat candidate to win. You have to ask yourself, "is it better to vote for the Republican who likely stands much closer to our American traditions and values, or for a likely socialist Democrat who seeks to unravel the fabric of our society and economy?" The correct answer is clear, even if the Republican is far from "perfect" themselves. It's better than us letting our country fall into socialism, and our children and grandchildren having to live through that horrendous societal experience...

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Photo Man2 months ago

"It's better than us letting our country fall into socialism," = When are you polite Repubs going to wake up to the fact that the US has been a Socialist nation for just barely under a full century (yes, that means 100 years!) as 60% (and was even higher under Yoey) of the current federal budget is for legislated mandated social entitlement programs. If you think those entitlements are not effective, you certainly have not been paying attention to all the entitlement FRAUD stories revealed even just his year.

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Jorge Rios2 months ago

It is mind boggling to see how so many people over look the extreme hypocricy of Communism, Socialism, which are first cousins and masters of lying and illusion

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Don G2 months ago

Hypocrisy! It’s to bad the leftist media will not expose the issue

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Elizabeth B2 months ago

Yes. These spoiled rich kids don't have any idea about real life. They view life from a privileged place and haven't had to worry about deciding whether to pay the rent or pay for a needed medication because you can't afford both.

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Photo Man2 months ago

"Does it matter if socialist leaders come from wealth?" Yes. Because these kids have no idea how real wealth is acquired. It is long past time that the (overly) compassionate parents come to their own reality and kick their kid(s) out of the house and off the parents subsidized payroll and tell the kid(s) to grow up and get a REAL JOB earning their own real income.

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Jennifer Vaughn2 months ago

With their wealth, they have tremendous influence on those in the media who want to cozy up and partake in that wealth.

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Fred Scott2 months ago

Yes, it matters, they are all Communists, not Socialists as they profess! Even some of the educated ones are hypocrites as well, or just the useful idiots of our time.

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Amanda McAdams2 months ago

Of course it matters if socialist leaders come from wealth. They are not practicing what they’re selling and giving the unrealistic perception that socialism will make everyone wealthy. I’d like to see them actually live by the programs they’re promoting and then get their opinion on whether these programs would truly be beneficial for everyone. My guess is that their opinion would change in a hurry once they’ve been subjected to redistribution of their wealth.

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Mike Tucker2 months ago

They are talking out of both sides of their mouth. They say they want to defund the police abolish ICE, and abolish prisons, in one article on their web site. In another, they say they want to militarize the police and use a new 28th amendment to repeal the 2nd Amendment. Doing all of this would make the US the most crime-ridden nation on earth, cause local gang wars that would look like Ethiopia, and collapse our economy. They want absolute power yet preach 'No Kings'. They want everyone outside of their elite community to be poor, helpless, and compliant.

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Alison Green2 months ago

Yes, it matters because it reveals their hypocrisy.

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Return to Faith2 months ago

Yes, particularly since these candidates have either no belief in God or a distorted belief. Rich or poor, if you know you are accountable to God, it will make it more likely that you will act justly. However, wealth and no solid religion is a bad combination.

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Douglas Leard2 months ago

Hypocrisy of the highest order. Useful idiots of the first rank.

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Michael H.2 months ago

I couldn't agree with you more. I have called them "trustfund hippies" for more than 30 years. They are the ones who bitch and moan about how "unfair" capitalism is while never having to know ANY hardships because they have an endless supply of cash to tap into whenever they want. I have seen several of them who had conditions on their access to fund that required them to be enrolled in college and to have a minimum 2.5 GPA in order to keep the river of money flowing.. I have witnessed them get a heavy reduction in funds for a failing grade. But once that grade came back up the taps were reopened. Let them actually without that support for a couple of years and I guarantee their attitudes would change.

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Selene Kitchens2 months ago

No doesn’t matter. Just take their wealth away from them first before striking other wealthy folks who have worked hard for their money. Fair enough. Selene k

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Guy M.2 months ago

The DSA has timed its push for power to coincide with escalating TDS, and far too many voters are more than willing to listen to any alternative, no matter how ludicrous. Naivety is strong in these people. Our younger generations have been fully brainwashed in Democrat-controlled schools and by the Democrat-controlled media. The Dem Party leaders espouse communism for the masses, but never for themselves. People are buying it because their teachers & professors have spent years poisoning their brains with anti-American Marxism. Big Tech is compliantly spewing the same garbage through cellphones and the internet.

Our constitutional republic is being threatened by tyranny dressed up as Robin Hood nirvana. The Great Experiment—that which has made us unique, free, strong, generous, and welcoming for 250 years is under attack. We must ALL vote in the midterms, and every election thereafter. No more apathy or the belief that it's someone else's job to save our country. It's OUR job!

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Cyndee Pacheco2 months ago

Don’t they realize that if socialism/communism takes over, they are the first to be eliminated?

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Mike Fankhauser2 months ago

Yes, this is how they become Socialist Leaders. They consume power over the backs of the populace. Everyone gets to become impoverished while the leaders gain strength and wealth. Socialists need to be kept well away from any power in a free society.

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Tracey Powers 2 months ago

Their hypocrisy is stunning. Yes it matters. Socialists want everyone else to give up everything of material value and live in poverty while they are at the ultimate top and enjoy luxurious living at other's expense. They do not know how the world really works or how the other half lives. They need Biblical teaching on doing to others what you would want done to you. Do they want to work 10 to 18 hours per day for the same pay others get who refuse to work? Do they want to give up their parents' millions so others can live above their means? I think not.

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Guy M.2 months ago

The DSA is relying on the fact that gullibility and laziness in the USA are at an all-time high, based on a study conducted on Proxima Centauri earlier this year.

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David Hooten2 months ago

Yes, they prove themselves to be total hypocrites. They decry capitalism while enjoying the fruits thereof. They have their cellphones, computers, and drive cars (non of which were invented in socialist countries. They watch their televisions and listen to their stereos (non of which came from socialist countries). What despicable hypocrites they are.

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Jim Powers 2 months ago

Hypocrisy is nothing new to these folks.

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ROSS BOONE2 months ago

If these DSA from rich parents want to be credible, they must take all their parents wealth, properties and investments and give it to the poor first!

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Laura I2 months ago

Not that wealth makes you smarter, but it does provide more opportunities to not be as ignorant. Which means the rich elitist socialists are either stupid or they think they would be put in the positions of power in their communist utopia where only the people at the top thrive and there is zero upward mobility

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Jim Ahern2 months ago

I think it matters if any leader comes from wealth. Is anybody really unaware that Donald Trump is part of the Billionaire Boys Club? But at the end of the day it's about policy and agendas that benefit the everyday American Citizen. And the DSA is in complete opposition to a treasonous level against the founding values and principles of our country. Not sure how they are allowed to exist on that basis alone. But on the flip side we have the party that touts itself as the gatekeeper of American Pride and Virtue. Problem is, we continue to move further and further away from said virtue regardless of all their claims of righting the ship. Not an opinion, that's the state of affairs on many levels as anyone paying attention is well aware of. These corrupt silly little elections need to have a moratorium put on them while we clean-up the filth that has infiltrated our once beautiful country. The Powers that Be know who they are and where they are, so let's get to work shall we..

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Pete Walton2 months ago

The hypocrisy is laughable…and they don’t realize it