Posted on 10/30/2025 7:23:58 AM PDT by MtnClimber
That’s putting it politely. Democrat voters live in a fantasy universe totally unmoored from reality. In fact their delusions are so entrenched in their tiny minds that people who threaten their mindset with facts logic and reality are considered to be so dangerous to their fantasy that they must be killed. Example Charlie Kirk and multiple attempts on Trump.
You cannot reason with them. Their belief system is not based on reason. You cannot bargain with them because they never keep their end of any bargain and further they have nothing to offer anyway. You can only defeat them or be defeated by them. There is no middle ground.
The ten per cent is a myth, but they do get a lot. A lot.
https://www.newsweek.com/map-states-rely-food-stamps-most-snap-funding-expires-10942866
> How will the movie end?
It ends with New Yorkers becoming the new Somalis, wretched refugees trying to escape from the s**thole they created but insisting on bringing with them everything that made that city a s**thole in the first place. They’ll spread like a pestilence through all the other major cities in North America.
The difference between leftists and conservatives is this.
Leftists look at the world as it is and see injustices everywhere and want to blow up the status quo and replace it with the same tried, repackaged, feel-good ideas that have failed whenever they have been tried in the past.
Conservatives look at the world as it is and try to make the best of it using hard learned lessons from the past of what works and what doesn’t.
That difference is captured brilliantly and poetically in the poem by Kipling - “The Gods of the Copybook Headings”. It should be the anthem of conservatism.
https://www.poetry.com/poem/33442/the-gods-of-the-copybook-headings
"Inertia of the political machine"...no. NYC Council is hard left, and the militant activists have a stranglehold on it. Zero chance they'll act as any kind of brake on Mamdani. They'd go over the cliff with him before they'd do that.
"Financial realities"...that's the third act. The second act is when they use whatever residual wealth they can loot from the city to finance their goals. And for awhile, it will work and they'll be lauded by the leftist media.
It's when that money runs out in the third act that it is going to get really, really ugly. And that might take a couple of years. In time for the 2028 election, but probably not in time for 2026.
Re socialism: You can vote your way into it but you’ll have to shoot your way out of it. Always holds true...SSZ
Leftists see people are malleable -- that they can change human nature in a way that makes their dream societies work. That's why the implementation of their ideology necessarily requires indoctrination/authoritarianism. They intend to change the way people think, and they do that by pushing their ideas and suppressing all others. The people who won't change are imprisoned or simply eliminated, or they simply hide in one form or another.
That concept is present in the socialist/communist concept of the "New Man". "We're going to make people better!".
Conservatives see people for who and what they are, accept that there is both evil and good, and deal with those accordingly. We value individual choice and freedom, and believe that left to their own devices, most people can achieve happiness on their own. We value the market because we don't try to fit square pegs into the round holes of our ideology.
We don't need to force any particular ideology on anyone because the natural state of man is freedom.
Please, point to me the differences between socialism and what NYC is right now.
NYC has been socialist for a long time now.
Well said, sir…
“Imagining a Socialist New York”
Easy.
“I thought it already was socialist”
New York and Chicago are already something else for which there are no words.
Detroit is making a comebacck. NY and Chicago never will.
I’d much rather be in Detroit than those other cities.
There’s still a long way to go, but the arrow is pointing up.
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