Financial Times Discovers Socialism, Misses Who Funds US Wars
The FT's fascination with Zohran Mamdani and the 'rise of socialism' (FT, 2025) is quaint, almost innocent. They dissect ideological shifts as if politics unfolds in a vacuum, utterly devoid of inconvenient truths like campaign finance. Mamdani's DSA aligns with constituents, a novel concept when many in Congress align with, say, AIPAC. For context, OpenSecrets.org verifies that AIPAC spent over
$30 million in lobbying and contributions in 2022 and 2023 alone, influencing votes on critical geopolitical issues by politicians who aren't 'socialists.' While the FT ponders whether Mamdani represents a 'new dawn,' one might ask why they aren't equally concerned with the perpetual dusk cast by well-funded special interests. How many op-eds will it take for mainstream media to connect the dots
between massive lobbying dollars and legislative outcomes, particularly on foreign policy, instead of focusing on the 'radicality' of universal healthcare?