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    Chicago Alderwoman Jeanette Taylor, a strong campaign ally who has also criticized some of the mayor’s early decisions, noted how critics often trot out the word “socialism” to cast blame on Johnson for long-standing issues facing the city. It’s a phenomenon, she added, that Mamdani could similarly face. “People make this a bad word. People make this into something that it is not. Let’s just call all of this what it is: This is the way the rich stay rich and the poor stay poor, because they get us fighting on s— that just does not even matter,” she said.

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      Fighting fire with empty words
      While the banks get fat and the poor stay poor
      And the rich get rich and the cops get paid
      To look away
      As the one percent rules America

      Spreading the disease
      Everybody needs, but no-one wants to see
      The way society
      Keeps spreading the disease