一切就此开始：高超的政治话术，透露狡黠的愚蠢

Everything Begins Here:

Masterful Political Rhetoric Exposes a Cunning Kind of Foolishness

Archer Hong Qian
2025.11.7 · 新加坡途中

“竞选时用诗歌，执政时用散文。”

这句美国政治评论界的格言，讽喻的是彻头彻尾的现实：候选人竞选时往往诉诸激情、梦想与道德正义，但一旦真正掌权，就不得不回到制度、官僚、预算、权衡与妥协这些“散文”的世界。

   耐人寻味的是，曼达尼刚刚当选纽约市长，还未开始执政，就迫不及待地借用这句话替自己铺路。他把反对其“共产主义倾向”的川普总统当作对象，公开喊话“提高声量”，并斩钉截铁地引用这句名言：“一位伟大的纽约人曾说，竞选用诗歌，执政用散文。”

那么，他是在为自己“不可能兑现竞选承诺”提前打预防针？
还是在为自己“缺乏治理能力与行政经验”找台阶？
抑或只是借名言包装，转移公众视线，再次把情绪当成政治动员的武器？

无论曼达尼懂还是不懂：所谓“杀富济贫”的共产式社会主义，本就是一条“通往奴役之路”；而其疯狂光鲜的口才背后，透露的恰恰是一种狡黠的愚蠢。

越来越多美国选民注定会明白：
靠话术上台者，最终必会遭话术反噬。

也许正因如此，兑现竞选承诺最高的川普总统，只在 Truth Social 上淡淡回应一句：
    “一切才刚刚开始。”

我倒不担心所谓“民主社会主义（DSA）”的幽灵，因为他们根本不懂第二国际传统中的“民主社会主义”是什么——在美国语境下，DSA不过是一种竞选话术，当不得真。

民主党推出曼达尼，只暴露其政治智慧的黔驴技穷。此举与他们惯于玩“拖字诀”逼政府关门别无二致：虚张声势，最终自砸脚面。

共和党只需坚持一条更具体、更有针对性的方向——比如《大美丽法案》（The Great Beautiful Act），在预算中剔除重复而不当的奥巴马医保条款，就足以形成制度性反制。

而如果川普总统此时反向而行——主动祝贺几位民主党市长当选，展现出“全民总统”力量感——那种高明的政治幽默和自信，才更有意思，也更具战略杀伤力。

参考阅读：
《曼达尼是“民主社会主义”者？搞笑了吧？》
http://symbiosism.com.cn/11108.html
https://blog.creaders.net/user_blog_diary.php?did=NTMwNzEz

Mamdani’s Masterful Political Rhetoric Reveals a Cunning Kind of Foolishness

Archer Hong Qian
Nov 7, 2025 · En Route, Singapore

“Campaign in poetry, govern in prose.”

This famous maxim in American political commentary captures an unvarnished truth: Candidates on the trail summon passion, dreams, and moral fervor—but once in office, they are dragged back into the world of institutions, bureaucracy, budgets, trade-offs, and compromise. That is the prosaic reality of governance.

What is striking about Mamdani is that—having just been elected mayor of New York, and not yet begun to govern—he is already invoking this line as a defensive shield. He publicly addressed former President Trump, who criticized his “communist leanings,” calling on him to “raise the volume,” and confidently citing:
“A great New Yorker once said: campaign in poetry, govern in prose.”

So what exactly is Mamdani doing?

Is he preparing excuses in advance for promises he knows he cannot fulfill?
Or is he preemptively defending against his lack of governing ability and experience?
Or is it simply another rhetorical move—borrowing the gravitas of a quotation to redirect attention and once again turn emotion into a political weapon?

Whether Mamdani understands it or not: The so-called ‘rob the rich to save the poor’ model of communist-style socialism is a road to serfdom—and behind its fiery, polished rhetoric lies a cunning kind of foolishness.

Sooner or later, American voters will see through it:
Those who rise on rhetoric will be undone by rhetoric—not swallowed, but bitten back.

Perhaps that is why Donald Trump—the president with the highest rate of fulfilled campaign promises in modern U.S. history—responded so lightly on Truth Social with just one line:
“It’s only just beginning.”

I am not troubled by the supposed ghost of “Democratic Socialism (DSA),” because they have no real understanding of what the democratic socialism of the Second International was ever about. In the United States, the DSA is little more than campaign rhetoric—never to be taken seriously.

Putting forward Mamdani only exposes the Democratic Party’s political exhaustion. It is no different from the same old “delay tactics” they've played for years in budget crises and government shutdown showdowns: loud gestures that end up backfiring.

The Republican path is far simpler: stick to a concrete and targeted agenda—such as The Great Beautiful Act—and remove redundant, ill-fitted Obamacare provisions from the federal budget. That alone would be a meaningful structural correction.

And if President Trump were to reverse the political current—
publicly congratulate several Democratic mayors-elect and embody the strength of a ‘president for all Americans’—
that would not only be strategic, but a masterstroke of political humor.

That, indeed, would be far more interesting.

Reference:
“Mamdani a ‘Democratic Socialist’? What a Joke.”
http://symbiosism.com.cn/11108.html