More dangerous than all the others. Way More!
Bloomberg’s tenure as mayor was defined by this steadfast insistence on telling the people he served that he knew how to run their lives better than they did. Bloomberg knew how to feed newborns better than their mothers did, so he banned baby formula.in NYC run hospitals He knew better than police officers who the criminals are, so he mandated they target people of color more than white New Yorkers for random searches.
This totalitarian paternalism is not new, nor is it unique in the world today. Perhaps Bloomberg himself knows this because he went out of his way to applaud the only man on earth implementing his ideology better than he is: Chinese dictator Xi Jinping.
Bloomberg: Xi Jinping Is Not a Dictator
Bloomberg’s affinity for Xi and the parallels between his own understanding of government and that of Xi’s ideological forebear, Mao Zedong, should horrify any decent American. And it should be particularly problematic for Bloomberg given that his campaign is largely predicated on the fact that he, a Maoist, is more of a "practical" Democratic Socialist presidential choice than old-school Soviet Marxist Bernie Sanders.
In a conversation with PBS’s Margaret Hoover in December of 2019, Bloomberg claimed that China relocating coal plants away from cities to hide them from global environmentalists is “doing a lot” to help the earth, then claimed that the Chinese Communist Party is somehow beholden to its people – the same people it routinely tortures, enslaves, rapes, and kills in a bid for absolute power.
“The Communist Party wants to stay in power in China, and they listen to the public. When the public says ‘I can’t breathe the air,’ Xi Jinping has to satisfy his constituents or he’s not going to survive,” Bloomberg asserted. Challenged on the fact that China has no democratic elections and no citizen of China outside of the Communist politburo had a say in Xi’s ascent, Bloomberg added “You’re not going to have a revolution. No government survives without the will of the majority of its people. He has to deliver services.”
Don’t be confused by Bloomberg’s outrageous wealth – there is no such thing as a poor communist – and don’t allow the instinct to laugh at absurd policies like banning large sodas to save the people distract from the fact that only one kind of government has attempted to help save them in real life. Just as it would only occur to Bloomberg to legally ban large sodas, Mao Zedong banned flowers (for being symbols of oppression) and gardens as decadent western ideas
His best statement in the interview was .“Education in a democracy must be carried on within the Parties rules and needs so that members can understand the meaning of democratic life, the meaning of the relationship between democracy and centralism, and the way in which democratic centralism should be put into practice to boost the Parties standing”.