Leftists have no concept of reality, just like other categories of insane people.
FNC and FBN have lots of employees living in the NYC area. So, there is a steady diet of: “OMG Mamdani!”. I am going to enjoy watching NYC burn itself down. If, by some unfortunate circumstance, some lefties perish, so much the better.
I thought it already was socialist
not hard to imagine: de Blasio’s reign wasn’t that long ago although he was more socialist and Zohran is more communist. most NYC voters seem to be either stupid or suicidal.
It's really that simple. The progressives and their voters are cleaning house, getting rid of all the old White Dem men. Cuomo had no chance, even if he were not a failed person and elected official.
With Snake Plissken thorwing a tape into the Atlantic.
I think Detroit is a good example of what will happen.
This is all on the voters. All of it.
NY City is a welfare city which exists almost solely off the skimmings of Wall Street and Federal transfers. It used to produce a lot of things - but not any more. That mentality is ingrained now in several generations of citizens and politicians
But even with that, Mamdani was chosen by a very small minority of voters.
It’s a Democrat city, and Mamdani won the Democrat primary, with 27% of eligible Democrat voters participating. Even then, he only beat Cuomo 54% to 46%. Socialists and marxists did a good job of “get out the vote.”
In most NY Mayoral elections, voter participation is around 23%-25% of eligible voters. This year may be higher.
If Republicans or especially mainstream democrats can overcome general apathy and organize a successful “get out the vote” they can easily swamp the Mamdani marxists.
The author is an ignoramus. New York City has been a socialist cesspool for decades.
Imagining a Socialist New York
Or just visit Cuba
The fear of Mamdani seems overblown given history. New York has experienced good and bad mayors in its history. Mamdani’s far left policies are not inconsistent with the left wing of the Democrat party which has members sitting in other city mayor offices, Congress, state legislatures, and in the federal bureaucracy. In addition the United States has experienced the leadership of four socialist presidents in its history.
We had a socialist president from 1932-1945 (FDR) who presided over a wholesale change in government, completely eradicating the small and limited federal government of the founders and fundamentally changing the economy by removing exchangeable gold from the monetary system, implementing federal work programs (CCC and WPA), increasing regulation of the economy at the federal level, and instituting old age pensions (Social Security). FDR also suspended individual rights under the Constitution and used the power of government to suppress freedom of the press and punish his political enemies.
Lyndon Johnson (1963-1969) was socialist president who was responsible for the “Great Society” social welfare programs which involved significant expansion of government wealth transfer through the income tax, primarily from the middle class to the lower economic strata. In addition the civil rights and voter rights legislation passed during his administration facilitated the federal government actively institutionalizing special privileges for specific groups defined by the government as worthy.
We had another socialist president from January 2009-2017 (Obama) whose stated goal was to fundamentally change America. He loaded the bureaucracy and the court system with far left socialists. He also dramatically increased government intervention in the healthcare system. He weaponized the DOJ and the court system against his political opponents. He increased the regulatory burden on individuals and business. He openly ruled with his pen (presidential orders) and phone to avoid accountability to Congress.
The regime of the puppet Joe Biden (January 2021-2025) was in essence an unknown to the pubic committee of socialists serving as president. This administration furthered the Obama agenda, increasing the regulatory burden on business and the public with climate change mandates. It also committed one of the most grievous violations of individual liberty with its vaccine mandates which impacts millions of citizens.
The socialist horse has been out of the barn for nearly 100 years. Mamdani is just one manifestation of a cancer that has spread across government at all levels, including the White House. Fixating on one candidate (Mamdani) takes voter attention away from the thousands of extreme socialists who infest the bureaucracy, serve in Congress, serve as governors and state legislators, serve in local elected offices, dictate from the courts, and have imposed their agenda from the White House. Perhaps this focus by the media is intentional. Look at Mamdani and ignore what is happening with thousands of others in elected office or positions of bureaucratic authority around the country.
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.
> 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.
"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.
Please, point to me the differences between socialism and what NYC is right now.
NYC has been socialist for a long time now.
“Imagining a Socialist New York”
Easy.