Rosa Belmont: La Mazonia

As La Veneno says, where did this tarantula come from? The new mayor of New York, Zahran Mamdani, is 34 years old. Isabel Coixet, who spent her time teaching at New York University, wrote that her 27-year-old campaign manager, … Designed the best campaign, with 100,000 volunteers making viral videos. And young people look at it as an antidote. There is enthusiasm and hope. In contrast, Andrew Cuomo is a politician so conventional that he has been the subject of a sex scandal. Young people went to Zahran with the same hope that young Tom Hanks in the movie “Big” went to Zoltar to make a wish. Three in ten Mamdani voters chose against Trump. Anti-fascist, apparently. Real confidence over assumed competence. Important problems have complex solutions, and this Muslim and those who want to expel Muslims usually have simple and quick solutions. The young man with an intellectual background (son of director Mira Nair and Mahmood Mamdani, a Marxist academic in Colombia) suggested setting rents, free transportation or nursery schools. What matters. Another thing is that there is money for it. Or that rent control serves a purpose. He knows how to do what he promised. May he be able.

Among the words used now is discrimination against people with disabilities. I would use discrimination against people with disabilities against politicians who are unable to do their jobs. Let’s take a look at Mazzone. There are those who call him a killer, but perhaps he is more useless than a criminal. Without forgetting what this uselessness can cause in normal or unusual situations (such as the recent flood). Because futility can go unnoticed in the normal situation, but not in the other. And you can see the futility of both the power outage and the Valencia tragedy.

We can also call political futility and mediocrity a mazonia, an area that should not be saved because it is not in danger.

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