In Conversation: Bill de Blasio

NY Magazine ^ | Sept 4th, 2017 | Bill de Blasio

[grayhog]

Don't read the whole interview unless you cant sleep, but you read this nugget:

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

A: 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.... ...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.

[grayhog]

Incredible. And he will be reelected. The irony is most of these committed communists believe they will be the enlightened few making all the decisions after the revolution. But in reality, they'll be killed just like the rest of us. Ask Leon Trotsky how it worked it.

[Art in Idaho]

Communists are domestic enemies.

[I want the USA back]

He said it. He’s a marxist. Read the Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism. Tells what communism really is about.

[Clutch Martin]

Considering the overall demographic of NYC is this really such a surprise?

[wmileo]

He actually said that things are going so well in NYC since he took over, the City should have a parade in his honor. What's next? Bigger than life-size posters in Times Square?

[workerbee]

You forgot to mark this Satire.

Didn’t you???

[PGR88]

The great irony of De Blasio is that he only has a platform and position because he is Mayor of the city which holds the largest crony-capitalist trading and financial institutions of the US Dollar empire. NY City merely skims off these behemoths, supported and maintained by the institutions of US power, to fund its socialist schemes and attitudes.

He should try being a Marxist in Venezuela, or Africa.

[wmileo]

He will turn the city into Venezuela and the rest of the country's tax payers will have to bail them out.

[Gay State Conservative]

Not at all surprising.Just go back to the 9/11/2001 edition of the New York Times.Quoting Bill Ayers,Godfather of Amercan Marxists:

"I don't regret setting bombs..I feel we didn't do enough."

[Dalberg-Acton]

The Trump presidency has drawn all kinds of America hating Communists out of hiding. I knew there were a lot, but had no idea there were as many as we can now identify.
Anti sedition laws are still on the books. Go get ‘em Mr. Trump!

[Wuli]

A giant lie:

“Unfortunately, what stands in the way of that is hundreds of years of history that have elevated property rights”

Not true. Property rights have not been “elevated” in this country, in fact many things have been chipping away at the Constitutional protections for property rights, in spite of them being a foundational part of not just the federal government but the state governments as well.

Why is “affordable” rents for newcomers in New York City so bad? Because New York City and state rent control laws give incumbent tenants in certain defined classes of rental units (a) protection from rent increases above annually set limits, and (b) protects when and how those units, depending on their class, can again be re-rented on an open market basis. The whole scheme maintains a huge body of rental units that are not and will not be on the open market, which, by restricting supply, makes what will be charged on the open market (for newcomers) a lot higher.

The spread of the rental rate between a “rent controlled” unit and a unit of equal size and amenities that is not rent-controlled can be enormous. THAT is part of what makes the cost for rental units for newcomers (actually “first time” or “just moved” renters) in New York City so high. The truth is near opposite of DiBlasio’s never going to happen Utopia.

[henkster]

Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler’s first banker, started to turn Germany’s economy around, and was reputedly wooed by a Wall Street banker:

“Dr. Schacht, you should come to America. We’ve lots of money and that’s real banking.” Schacht replied, “You should come to Berlin. We don’t have money. That’s real banking.”

[Arkansas Toothpick]

Has anyone here ever played Sim City or it’s successor games? It’s a lot of fun to be able to force your will upon the hapless virtual citizens. Seems to me that DeBlasio should be relieved of position and given a copy of Sim City. At least he could release his impulses there without destroying the lives of real Americans.

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[FreeReign]

Considering the overall demographic of NYC is this really such a surprise?

Looking at the demographics by income, I would think that there would be lots of people who wouldn't like income redistribution and government control of private property.

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The Radical/Communist Roots Of Bill de Blasio

INTRODUCTION

Early Life and Name Change

Bill de Blasio was born Warren Wilhelm Jr. on May 8, 1961 in New York City and grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Shortly after graduating with a bachelor's degree from New York University in 1983, he legally changed his name to Warren de Blasio-Wilhelm, adding his mother's maiden name to his identity. In 2002 he changed his name for a second time and became Bill de Blasio.

Radical Parents

Historian Ron Radosh describes de Blasio as: (a) "a far left radical whose ancestors are theNew Left and the Communists"; and (b) "a bona fide red diaper baby" who, "like many of his generation ... kept his parents' ... pro-Communist politics not far from his heart." Both of de Blasio’s parents were far leftists—most likely, members of the Communist Party USA or some of its numerous front groups. His mother, Maria de Blasio, worked in the early 1940s at the Office of War Information—a U.S. government agency staffed largely by pro-Soviet leftists who depicted the USSR in a positive light.

SUPPORTER OF COMMUNIST & ANTI-AMERICAN CAUSES IN THE 1980'S

In 1983, while he was still at NYU, Bill de Blasio toured parts of the Communist Soviet Union. This was a period of significant Cold War tension between the United States and the USSR, as the Soviets were attempting to permanently solidify their nuclear superiority over the U.S. Notably, de Blasio at one time served as an organizer with the anti-nuclear, anti-American organization Physicians for Social Responsibility.

De Blasio took his first job in 1984 with the NYC Department of Juvenile Justice. Three years later, having recently earned a master's degree at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, he was hired to work as a political organizer by the Quixote Center (QC), a Maryland-based, Catholic social-justice organization with Marxist leanings.

In 1988 de Blasio, an ardent supporter of Nicaragua's Marxist Sandinista government—which was backed by the Soviet Union, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, and Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization—joined a number of his QC colleagues in a ten-day trip to Nicaragua to help distribute food and medicine to people who had been affected by the...Read The Rest HERE

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[Popman]

Well you got to give him a little credit...

He’s upfront about his Marxism...