Midterm Media Bedwetting Over 'Socialism' Has Truly Begun

Last week New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a bunch of his "democratic socialist" allies won several key primaries in the city. The victories kicked several Democratic party incumbents to the curb, instantaneously triggering a massive wave of extraction class hyperventilation echoed across the corporate press.Despite being a handful of primary victories in the deep blue areas of New York, it immediately triggered a wave of headlines about how "socialism" was now dangerously close to devouring the country alive:To be clear, the U.S. political discourse has been so polluted by decades of corporate and right wing propaganda and substandard education, that I don't think even well-intentioned Americans operate with any coherent, grounded understanding of political reality or policy a good 80 percent of the time. So when you mention "socialism," most Americans have been well conditioned to immediately think of AK-47 wielding revolutionaries and bread lines, not public libraries, fire…