Anti-corporate, socialist NYC candidate Rana Abdelhamid works for Google

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Anti-corporate, socialist NYC candidate Rana Abdelhamid works for Google

By Conor Skelding   
February 12, 2022

A Queens congressional candidate backed by the Democratic Socialists of America who decries “corporate-friendly politicians” was paid big bucks working for one of the largest corporations on Earth.

Rana Abdelhamid, 28, works in marketing at Google, which pays her more than $160,000 per year, according to her personal financial disclosure.

The socialist also holds between $50,000 and $100,000 in stock in the $1.9 trillion tech behemoth, where she’s worked since at least 2014, the filing shows.

Yet her platform takes aim at those who aid and abet one-percenters.

“Decades of corporate-friendly politicians have created prosperity for those at the top while workers and unions suffer,” her campaign website reads.

And the lefty certainly has not scorned corporate America in her fundraising efforts.

She’s received maximum, four-figure contributions from employees of Apple, Google, and big-law firm Gibson Dunn, among others — and even the chief of staff to the president of Harvard University, Federal Election Commission records show.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/02/12/anti-corporate-nyc-candidate-rana-abdelhamid-works-for-google/

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An excerpt from "Witness", by Whittaker Chambers:
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After that confrontation, I returned to my office at Time and went through the motions of working. Everyone was kind. No one pressed me. One day Henry Luce called me up and asked me to come to supper.

There were three of us. The second guest was a nimble, witty European whom I shall call Smetana. At supper, most of the talk was between Luce and Smetana. I was a rather silent guest. I was too fresh from the shadows; bright conversation hurt my mind. In fact, I had left behind the world of Time and those who lived within it. It was only the friendliest of fictions that I still belonged to it.

No one mentioned Communism or the Hiss Case until we sat over our coffee in the living room. Mrs. Philip Jessup had just used her personal good offices to try to get me off Time. Luce was baffled by the implacable clamor of the most enlightened people against me. “By any Marxian pattern of how classes behave,” he said, “the upper class should be for you and the lower classes should be against you. But it is the upper class that is most violent against you. How do you explain that?”

“You don’t understand the class structure of American society,” said Smetana, “or you would not ask such a question. In the United States, the working class are Democrats. The middle class are Republicans. The upper class are Communists.”