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Mandani criticizes this trend, blaming the city’s political climate on decades of socialist policies and movements like Occupy Wall Street that he claims have allowed socialism to flourish unchecked. He argues that this ideological shift has led New York City toward policies that foster dependency and what he perceives as "gullibility" among voters, leading to the election of candidates with radical agendas. This, he suggests, is a reflection of the city’s current political state—collective consequence for years of unchecked leftism.