We learn the lesson as children that we are the company we keep — and this holds true for politicians seeking power over us.
The allies they choose tell us what they find tolerable, and the more heinous the compan, the more we should be on guard about what changes are coming our way.
Mayoral hopeful Zohran Mamdani rose to national prominence after winning the Democratic primary this year, but he’s been a Democratic Socialists of America member since 2017.
The company he keeps is an organization that explicitly supports communist social and political frameworks — including eradicating the family.
DSA speakers proudly denounced the nuclear family and pushed their long-term goal to destroy the desire for one in Chicago at their summer Socialism 2025 conference panel “The Left and The Family: A Roundtable.”
“In addition to the abolition of family policing” — government-run child-protective services — “we argue for the abolition of the family in general and say that the institution of the family acts as part of the carceral system in that it reinforces children as property,” lamented Olivia Katbi, co-chair of DSA Portland, Ore.
“When we talk about family abolition . . . we’re talking about the abolition of the economic unit,” claimed University of Chicago sociologist Eman Abdelhadi. “It is a horizon . . . in which all of our material needs are taken care of by the collective.”
Panelist Emily Janakiram reduced matrimony to a wholly transactional process. “The only real difference between marriage and prostitution is the price and the duration of the contract,” the Brooklyn writer declared.
That’s an ironic attempt to insult marriage since communists love prostitution and do everything possible to enable its existence — see Zohran’s ambition to decriminalize it, which he just confirmed.
Americans intrinsically know the destruction that comes from pulling a child from even one of his or her parents because we’ve witnessed generations of children grow up struggling to rise from the rubble of their childhood.
These children, left behind to fend for themselves emotionally or physically, often become the adults we see traveling down a path of internal torment to complete ambivalence to unleashing their revenge against a society they believe ignored them.
When communists like Katbi frame our most desired and natural child-rearing environment — with our biological parents — as a prison system, they’re insidiously advocating for more children like me to suffer.
I know firsthand what it’s like to have a selfish parent choose themselves over their responsibility. If I had been given one wish as a child, I would have chosen to know what it’s like to have a loving and involved father in my life.
My granted wish wouldn’t have caused imprisonment, as these communists claim, but instead freedom from my insecurity and questioning whether I even deserve love stemming from abandonment.
Only a privileged ideologue would shout for the overthrow of the family unit; they wouldn’t have to experience the consequences.
As Eman Abdelhadi explained on the panel, revolutionaries like her have their eyes on the long-term goal of abolishing the family structure — but to get to that point, they have to do things perceived as liberal, like offer universal child care.
Zohran portrays himself as someone who cares about the welfare of working-class families by promoting universal child care, but it’s a ploy to make Americans comfortable with the smiling face of a communist thief.
These ambitions are the first step in radicals’ fantasy of a communist revolution — not the last. They want to abolish the family structure because it hinders their control over the minds of the youth.
While universal child care sounds good on its face, the question should be: Who is caring for these children, and what are they teaching them during those hours?
If you’re going to alter the future, you have to capture the minds of the young, who know no better.
The healthy family unit is the best deterrent against our children being used as pawns for a revolutionary cause.
In the DSA’s distorted view, the family-court system would be a politicized arm that flexes its ideological muscle over parental figures who actively fight against the communist cause.
It’s why they’re desperate to reform “family policing” as it would allow them to dictate our children’s circumstances and punish parents who interrupt the revolution.
If Zohran supports families, why would he proudly stay attached to an organization that inherently despises what most Americans enjoy and know works for our children’s benefit?
The DSA sees him as a youthful prototype in line with what it believes, not against it — which is why Zohran hasn’t challenged the ideas his DSA cohorts spew.
Sometimes it’s not what Zohran says but what he doesn’t say that should make every New York City resident wary.
My mother was right: You are the company you keep, and Zohran is the anti-family communist he proudly associates with.
Adam B. Coleman is the author of “The Children We Left Behind” and founder of Wrong Speak Publishing.
This story originally appeared on NYPost
