Why this Jew Supports Mamdani for Mayor of New York

Liberalism, as it has existed in New York City, is ready for the gallows

Why this Jew Supports Mamdani for Mayor of New York

Liberalism, as it has existed in New York City, is ready for the gallows

By

David Gottfried

First, some good communist Jewish Music to remind you that not all Jews are conniving, contemptuous real estate moguls who love Fox News, fur coats and fascism with a touch of Cosmopolitan chic:

First and foremost, I support Mamdani because he is a red hot radical shouting out his socialism like Abbie Hoffman Cursing the Chicago Police. The poor have been subjected to the class war waged by the rich ever since Reagen won the presidency. Mamdani is one of the few Democrats who are ready to join the battle by training his guns on the rich, the Republicans, the rapacious parasites ruining the lives of millions.

The Languid and Luxurious Palace of a Liberal Fraud that has lived too Long

New York is so fucking expensive now that it might as well be 15 minutes before the Bastille is stormed and people have orgies in Notre Dame. I want those Molotov Cocktails. I want bombs bursting in air.

Sixty years ago, one could be a man, earning the equivalent of what would be $50,000.00 today, and be considered a respectable person in New York City. Sixty years ago, one could be a man, earning the equivalent of what would be $100,000.00 today, and be considered a respectable person in a non-orthodox synagogue in New York City.

[The orthodox Jews care about something else besides one’s bank balance. For the orthodox, if a man knows how to “doven,” (pray) and knows the “brouchas” (blessings) for the various rituals, he is a genuine Jew even if his clothes come from Kmart. For the non orthodox Jews, including the rich liberals (The rich la di da liberals are the most irksome, infuriating people G-d ever put on this planet), money is the only gauge of a person’s character as their Judaism is a vacuous mélange of disconnected phenomena including Barbara Streisand, Bloomingdales and bitchy people who think they are conversant in Judaism because they know three “Jewish” words, “Shvatza, Shlemeil and Oy Vey.” They are like a suburban, spoiled shit of a Jew I knew who thought Ruben sandwiches were a good Jewish and Kosher food because Ruben was a Jewish name. George Santos is just as Jewish as they are.]

Today, one is encouraged to apply for euthanasia if one doesn’t meet the income requirements necessary to be a self-respecting Jew or New Yorker. To the howling, haughty harridans of Park Avenue, Forest Hills and all locales where glittering bitches live lives of ostentacious, conspicuous consumption, a poor person is an eyesore, a degenerate, someone who should have been aborted in our sterile, supercilious world of frigid women, frivolous men and a birthrate headed for Hades.

New York is a supposedly progressive City where the ethos of Robert Kennedy have been maimed and mutilated like Abner Luima maimed by the New York City Police (Cops shoved a toilet bowl plunger into his rectum and pierced the colonic wall, making feces course through his blood stream), and the new ethical and moral arbiter of right and wrong is Judge Judy, the juridical justification of Judas.

New York is a supposedly progressive city because its leaders have been talking the liberal talk since the Great Depression. And they have talked the liberal talk, and have recited homilies and hosannas to human kindness, as they have stabbed and stormed their way through the social strata of society toward the dizzying summit of snide self assurance, Gracie Mansion, Yachts in the Mediterranean, a private island ala Jackie Onassis.

And they have learned that instead of doing good things, one can talk liberal bullshit. For example, in the race for Manhattan Borough President, Keith Powers is patting himself on the back for backing zoning changes which would give us 10,000 more apartments in Midtown Manhattan (As if this sardine can can stand anymore people), but he neglects to tell us that only 30 percent of those apartments will be reserved for people who are middle income or working class or poor.

Likewise, Andrew Cuomo is terribly adept at mouthing sweet liberal nothings about caring and compassion and love, and, of course, he is very loving and compassionate toward bankers and billionaires. For example, he figured out just how to help nursing home operators who were flirting with bankruptcy. He knew that Covid patients would mean more money from Medicare and Medicaid so he transferred covid patients from hospitals, and into nursing homes, and covid promptly spread like wildfire and geriatric morbidity soared. (I should note that Cuomo was not alone in this dastardly approach to public health. California’s Democratic Governor did the same damn thing and put covid patients in nursing homes, but the movie stars and narcissistic brats at his liberal fundraisers are too busy talking to their colorists about their luscious looks to know or care about the hundreds of California patients, drained of color, because they are stone cold dead.)

In New fucking York, Landlords are peddling one room rat traps for 6000 dollars a month in rent. In this city, take out food less than 40 bucks gives me projectile vomiting. In this city, stores have the fucking gall to charge 200 dollars for a pair of walk shorts, 300 dollars for shoes, 150 dollars for a hair cut, etc. etc. etc.

Of course, a big part of the problem is the abundance of filthy fucking millionaires whose wallets are filled with one hundred dollar bills the way your cookie jars are filled with nickels. As they negligently and flippantly spend money like an incontinent creep pissing on the sidewalk, they bid up the price of goods and services.

And per Andrew Cuomo himself, this is yet another reason to vote for Mamdani. Cuomo says that Mamdani will give us more crime. That would be wonderful. If more rich people were mugged and beaten, maybe they would get the hell out of my city and stop inflating prices.

Of course, I don’t like the idea of being mugged or assaulted. But look at it this way. If I am beaten by a street thug, I am wounded, but in a little while I’ll be in the ER and oxycontin can take the pain away. Of course, I could be killed, but realistically that would mean deliverance from a world that is less and less desirable to be alive in.

Income deprivation is so much worse than street violence. A street criminal can create stormy, stinging pain as he slashes you with a knife, but opioids can always nix pain. Poverty, by contrast, is a constant disease that gnaws away at your stomach every second of the day, from the moment you wake up and your feet touch the ice cold floor of your poorly heated bathroom, to the moment you open your cutlery cabinet to start breakfast and you see three dozen roaches scatter through the knives and forks, while you trudge to work as your cheap shoes exacerbate your podiatric problems, to the hour when you are bilious and burdened by a stomach revolting from a breakfast that was, essentially, nothing but fried shit. And we haven’t even reached 9 AM yet. And, in addition to all that, there is the constant worry and terror of more financial problems. It’s no wonder that Henry David Thoreau said most Americans lead lives of “quiet desperation.” They don’t go into the streets and demonstrate like the French, who are so much less apt to commit suicide. Americans suffer in silence, terrified of all manner of financial, civil and criminal penalties.

Of course, sometimes this City’s sneering sensibility, that attitude that seems to laugh at you even when it asks “how are you,” gets so bad that, in conjunction with the physical insults inflicted on the poor – the poor nutrition, the unheated apartments, the mold and rodent-infested tenements, the stench-ridden, never-ventilated subways swarming with hundreds of toxins and germs -- its victims will have to go to the hospital.

Insofar as health care is concerned, this City possesses all of the condescending and life-abbreviating properties of bourgeois liberalism.

I have seen patients with good insurance cured of rare and deadly cancers, and I have seen Medicaid patients die of relatively simple and easy to treat infections. I have seen well-heeled patients comforted and cossetted from every physical storm, and I had a friend, on Medicaid, who had been told to go to the ER, waited in a hospital hallway for 3 days, and then went home after the hospital said it lacked the time or the resources to treat him. Peter died a month later, and just a couple of weeks ago, at the age of 59.

And after Peter was lowered into the ground after a ceremony devoid of a Priest, Rabbi or Imam, my meditations were again interrupted by the New York elections.

I got campaign advertisements from 5 fat, rich, married ladies all of whom are running to succeed Keith Powers for the 4^th district’s councilmanic seat. And what do our fat women candidates talk about: They are screaming at the top of their lungs about graffiti, and traffic, and noise and really what does a spoiled Jewish American Princess have to do to get the service and respect her double chin and Bergdorf Furs command.

These quality of life ding bat bitches are giving me apoplexy. Do you know what counts, bitch. Cancer and murder and starvation matter. Graffiti is an issue for silly spoiled dizzy dowagers whose minds are abuzz with the bullshit that only a rich, bitch cunty queen can care about:

Why I support Mamdani even though he might be antisemitic

Of course, some people say that Mamdani may be an antisemite. Although my co-religionists, especially those of the Ed-Koch-Joan-Rivers-Jackie-Mason persuasion, often make me want to listen to German beer hall music, I know, when push comes to shove, I will have to stand with the Jews against the Kike-killers. I would like to forget, but I can’t forget the apocalyptical dimensions of anti semitic rage.

So it’s a legitimate question: How can I support Mamdani as he may be an anti-Semite.

First, the security of the Jewish people is not dependent on the action or inaction of the mayor of New York. In the 30’s and 40’s, New York had a great mayor, who was half Jewish and half Italian, who often spoke up against the fascist menace. For all his good deeds, I don’t think he saved a single Jewish life in Europe or in Yorkville, a German New York neighborhood where the German Bund was feeling its oats.

As mayor of New York City, Mamdani can not direct or suspend the expenditure of funds or the transmission of arms to Israel, cannot modify laws regarding trade with Israel or any other nations, and cannot effect the disposition of US forces.

Mamdani, however, can make life less welcoming to Jews. I am realistic enough (or paranoid enough) to believe he might be a son of a bitch to us. (I live in the real world, not that pastel flooded illusion in which bad things only happened in Germany. After all, before the Angles and Saxons lived in England, they had been situated in Germany, from whence they invaded Great Britian.)

And my response to his possible vindictiveness and antisemitism ? You’ll hate what I have to say. I find this argument more than a tad repulsive, but its seems logically invincible:

Give anti Semitism its due. It is perhaps the only thing that keeps the Jewish people together, united, strong. We are a brilliant bunch of people, and intelligence and religiousness are inversely proportional. We are too bright to believe in the Jewish religion, or in any other religion, and if we don’t have antisemitism to bring us together, we will simply scratch each other’s eyes out to be anointed the best student, the best professor, the best super nerdy bastard on the block.

And I am not the only Jew who recognizes the value of antisemitism. Even Judaism, paradoxically, gives a nod to antisemitism:

On Passover, we place various items on the Sedar plate. One of those things is a hard-boiled egg. We put an egg on the Sedar plate because it is, supposedly, symbolic of the Jewish people: the more you boil an egg, the harder it gets. The more you persecute or oppress the Jewish people with antisemitism, the more ardently we will fight for Israel and one another. Therefore, Passover rituals are implicitly reminding us that antisemitism strengthens us.