Back before political correctness destroyed Stand-up Comedy as an American art form, one practitioner had a routine where a World War II father during the Cold War tried to explain to his son about ‘good Germans’ and ‘bad Germans’ – the difference between those he fought against, those now friends of the West, the East Germans allied with the Soviet Union. His son was confused!
The ambiguity in Mamdani’s statement about eliminating billionaires needs further explanation before he is elected New York City’s first socialist mayor. Zohan most certainly would agree that New York billionaire Donald Trump should be stripped of his wealth and spend the rest of his life in the slammer. Mamdani’s supporters in the New York criminal justice system, attorneys Leticia James and Alvin Bragg, attempted to accomplish that for Trump, but without success.
To fit into Mamdani’s socialist world, Warren Buffett must be one of the first billionaires to go. These private entrepreneurs, who create jobs with high incomes for working and middle-class Americans, must be taxed out of existence. The Communist playbook calls for any billionaires who choose to remain are to be chased from the country, annihilated, or sent to Soviet-style gulags.
Before he became associated with Donald Trump, Elon Musk was the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) choice with his EVs that fit in a socialist Command Economy that the Biden Administration was installing to replace America’s traditional market-based Economy. But when Musk worked with Trump to eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse within the Federal government, the three pillars upon which a Command Economy is built, he joined Buffett as one of the first billionaires who must depart from Mamdani’s world.
Do Socialists bite the hands that feed them, even if they are billionaires who support their causes? That is a choice that must be made if Mamdani is elected. Through his Open Society Foundation, Billionaire George Soros supports organizations, political parties, and individuals whose purpose is to undermine the founding principles of the United States as defined in its Constitution. Soros wants to replace America with a society based on humanitarianism, a utopian socialist/communist, non-authoritarianist society, if those ideologies can even coexist with each other.
Soros resides part-time on his vast estate in Katonah, a suburb of New York, and his Open Society Foundation is in New York City. His net worth is now reported to be under $10 billion, so if his support of Mamdani does not meet expectations, George could also be a casualty of Zohan’s anti-billionaire views.
If Mamdani wins his election and becomes a more mature politician, he will need to develop answers to the contradictions within his socialist/communist ideology. The CCP allows billionaires to exist so long as they promote the party line. Hong Kong billionaire Jean Eric Salata donated $200 million to Harvard University, for as the Harvard Gazette reported on June 21, 2022, to establish “the Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability, a groundbreaking new entity that will advance and catalyze research programs across all of Harvard’s Schools and enable comprehensive cross-University education in climate and the environment.”
If billionaire money can be used to infiltrate communist goodwill into the minds of some of the best American university students, shouldn’t Mamdani rethink his knee-jerk antagonism toward billionaires? Especially when they are also promoting the commercial interests of his fellow travelers.
The U.S. Constitution says nothing about individual wealth or how those who become extremely wealthy should be treated differently from other citizens. If Mamdani becomes mayor of New York City and has legal power, he can tax them indiscriminately. However, the Constitution’s concept of government was that all citizens would have an equal voice in the nation’s governance. Unfortunately, by making large campaign contributions, wealthy citizens exercise unequal influence in elections and legislative processes compared to most other voters.
U.S. Congressmen elected to represent local and state constituencies in Washington suddenly find that large outside campaign donations have ‘nationalized’ elections, which were originally designed to be otherwise. The election of the U.S. President is our only national election, but here also, big money contributors exercise unequal influence.
Despite Mamdani’s unfortunate comments, billionaires should be allowed to prosper honestly in our society, but this small group should not be allowed to control our government or its institutions.
TW3
July 10, 2025
John Whitmore Jenkins
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