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What kind of mayor will Zohran Mamdani be? · The Daily Article

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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good day.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's Wednesday.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: November 5th, 2025.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the daily article podcast from Dynaston Forum.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Today's daily article is authored by RCEO, Dr. Jim Dynaston, and narrated by Chris Elkins.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As expected, Democrats Mikey Cheryl of New Jersey and Abigail Spanberger of Virginia, won their state's gubernatorial races last night, while California voters approved a plan to redraw their state's congressional map in Democrats' favor.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The headline news is that Zoran Mondami was elected mayor of New York City.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Mondani is a member of the Democratic Party and the Democrat Socialist of America, and he is the city's youngest mayor in more than a century.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: On his campaign website, he advocates for freezing rent, fair free buses,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: No-cost child care, city-owned grocery stores, and tripling the city's production of housing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He says he will pay for all of this by raising taxes on corporations and the wealthiest New Yorkers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: According to the Times of Israel, he has also refused to support Israel's existence as a Jewish state, repeatedly accused Israel of genocide in Gaza and allowed to arrest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu if he visits New York City where the United Nations is
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In a 2023 video, Mombani said, when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it has been laced by the IDF, the Israel Defense Forces.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, Mr. Mamdani has vowed to fight anti-Semitism as mayor, and left wing Jewish groups in the city supported him, though other Jewish voters feared that he, quote, poses a danger to the security of the New York Jewish community.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So what kind of mayor has America's largest city elected is he a radical socialist or a pragmatic reformer, a dangerous anti-Semite, or an inclusive anti-racist?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We will have to see what Mayor Mamdani does to determine who he actually is.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In the 1976 movie Network, the character Arthur Jensen asserts, there are no nations, there are no peoples.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast inner woven, interacting multi-variate multinational dominion of dollars.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Jensen continues.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: it is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is the national order of things today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The world is a college of corporations inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The world is a business, Mr. Beal.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It has been since man crawled out of the slime.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You can make a biblical argument for his argument.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit because it was good for food, and a delight to the eyes noted in Genesis 3 verse 6, Kane murdered Abel after God blessed Abel's offering
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  [SPEAKER_00]: overcanes, as we read in Genesis 4 verses 1 through 8.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Jews worshiped Canaanite gods who weren't purported to control the weather and thus the economy.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: When Jesus warned in Luke 16 verses 13 and 14, you cannot serve God in money.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The Pharisees who were lovers of money heard his words and ridiculed him.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Among the wicked in the book of Revelation are those who worshiped idols of golden silver and bronze and stone and wood found in Revelation 9 verse 20.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In a world of materialism, success is measured by material means we are what we have, what we do, and what others think of what we have and do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But we can always have and do more and impress more people with what we have and do.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We're never done.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As the fictional spy James Bond's family motto proclaimed, quote, The World is not enough.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It wasn't supposed to be this way.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: According to Economist Adam Smith, who's 1776 book The Wealth of Nations, was extremely influential for colonial America.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The, quote, invisible hand of the market guides society through self-interested choices to greater societal outcomes.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As consumers want what we want.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The free market produces goods and services that benefit not only us, but everyone else.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The astounding technologies and material advances produced by capitalism over the centuries illustrate his thesis.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: However, the pursuit of happiness our nation was created to secure, unalloyed by unconditional love for ourselves and others can lead only to a zero-sum competition for materialistic success.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And such success cannot meet the deepest hunger of the human heart.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That is why the third part of the great commandments we're discussing this week is so important.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: As we have noted, Jesus famously taught in Matthew 22 verses 37 through 39 to love our Lord and to love our neighbor.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Many people overlook the rest of the second commandment at the
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  [SPEAKER_00]: The phrase could be translated, love your neighbor in the same way, and to the same degree, as yourself.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So we might ask, how do we love ourselves?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: If we love ourselves as transactional and materialistically as the world loves us, we will similarly love our neighbors for what they do and have that is selfishly relevant to us.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: But if we love ourselves as unconditionally and passionately as God loves us, we will similarly love our neighbor as a beloved fellow child of our father.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: This changes everything.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Fill up Yency wrote, sociologists have a theory of the looking glass self.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You become what the most important person in your life, your wife, your father, your boss, etc.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks you are.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: How would my life change if I truly believe the Bible's astounding words about God's love for me, if I looked in the mirror and saw what God sees?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: In quotes, Henry now and similarly urged us, look in the mirror each day and claim your true identity.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Act ahead of your feelings and trust that one day your feelings will match your convictions,
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Then now an added, as a spiritual practice, claim and reclaim your primal identity as a beloved daughter or son of a personal creator.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: What is your primal identity today?