Earlier I said Portland is why you should stock up on ammo, well New York City mayor, Bill De Blasio is why we should be allowed to stock up on full auto and grenades.

He did an interview with New York Magazine.  I am going to post the entirety of his answer to a question (and the question) below:

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

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.

I’ll give you an example. I was down one day on Varick Street, somewhere close to Canal, and there was a big sign out front of a new condo saying, “Units start at $2 million.” And that just drives people stark raving mad in this city, because that kind of development is clearly not for everyday people. It’s almost like it’s being flaunted. 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.

It’s not reachable right now. And it leaves this friction, and this anger, which is visceral. I try to explain the things we can do. It’s a little bit of a Serenity Prayer — let’s talk about the things we can fix. The rent freeze we did reached over 2 million people.In 2015 and 2016, the mayor’s appointees ruled that new one-year leases on rent-stabilized units could not increase. I’ve talked to people who were going to be evicted, and we stopped the eviction by giving them a free lawyer. And I’ve talked to people who got affordable housing under our plan for 200,000 apartments.

That answer is 100% Soviet style centrally planned communism.

He believes that government, and government alone should plan what happens to every plot of land in this country and should manage the day to day lives of every one of its citizens.

I am going to post this anecdote about Boris Yeltsin from the New York Times again, for the second time today.  This time, I will bold the most important parts.

During a visit to the United States in 1989 he became more convinced than ever that Russia had been ruinously damaged by its centralized, state-run economic system, where people stood in long lines to buy the most basic needs of life and more often than not found the shelves bare. He was overwhelmed by what he saw at a Houston supermarket, by the kaleidoscopic variety of meats and vegetables available to ordinary Americans.

Leon Aron, quoting a Yeltsin associate, wrote in his biography, “Yeltsin, A Revolutionary Life” (St. Martin’s Press, 2000): “For a long time, on the plane to Miami, he sat motionless, his head in his hands. ‘What have they done to our poor people?’ he said after a long silence.” He added, “On his return to Moscow, Yeltsin would confess the pain he had felt after the Houston excursion: the ‘pain for all of us, for our country so rich, so talented and so exhausted by incessant experiments.’ ”

He wrote that Mr. Yeltsin added, “I think we have committed a crime against our people by making their standard of living so incomparably lower than that of the Americans.” An aide, Lev Sukhanov was reported to have said that it was at that moment that “the last vestige of Bolshevism collapsed” inside his boss.

Yeltsin was a member of the Communist Party for most of his adult life.  He was the First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party and later President of the Russian Federation.

After a visit to the United States, he spent the rest of his life regretting what centrally planned communism did to the Russian people.

Bill De Blasio wants to impose that same model on New York, and presumably the rest of the country (given his clear Presidential intentions).

If Mayor De Blasio had his way, the residents of New York City would all live in New York City Housing Authority khrushchyovka.

Portland residents want food shortages, the Mayor of New York City wants housing shortages, and New York City’s newest Congressional Representative wants healthcare shortages.

The Democrat party is hell bent for leather on taking us into Soviet style socialism.

I want grenades.