Senator Elizabeth Warren has thrown her support behind New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s proposal for government-owned grocery stores.
During an appearance on CNBC Squawk Box on Friday, the Massachusetts Senator was asked about some of Mamdani’s most radical proposals, which include the state owning and subsidizing groceries with its own stores.
She explained:
We’ve got a problem with entire food deserts where people can’t get access to grocery stores.
He said, I’d like to take a look at whether or not we can have some kind of — like we do on military bases — you have some kind of support from the city government that says, we’re going to get some food, grocery stores in areas that, right now, are food deserts.
And by the way, it’s a new and fresh plan for New York City. But it’s been tried in other cities around the country and has had some real successes.
So, what I hear Mamdani say is, I want to try things to make it work for working families. And you know what? This is how democracy works.
A lot of people in New York City said, that sounds good to me, I’d rather try that than any of the other alternatives available to me, I support that.
Watch the clip below:
Elizabeth Warren says that government-run grocery stores have been successful in other cities.
Can somebody tell me where these fake cities are located? pic.twitter.com/l8btJqm1Og
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Such a policy of state-run grocery stores has been tried unsucessfully many times in communist societies, most notably the Soviet Union that ended up collapsing under its own contradictions.
Yet this is just one of a number of crazy ideas put forward by the 35-year-old Mamdani, who triumphed against the competition during last month’s Democratic primary.
As a New York State Assemblyman, Mamdani has waged a longstanding campaign aimed at defunding the New York Police Department, which he claims are designed to “control black, brown and poor New Yorkers.”
He also believes that defunding the police is essential for the cause of “queer liberation,” and law enforcement is complicit in aiding a “violent, right-wing government” in persecuting minorities.
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