Posted on 11/06/2025 1:11:12 PM PST by grundle
Why do New York City voters want to repeat this disaster from the 1960s and 1970s?
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NYC voters are a real-world example of the proof of an oft-quoted definition of insanity. “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
So goes NYC...again...and again...ad infinitum.
Most of those voters are gone.
Their replacements, immigrants from around the world, and hipster freaks from around the country have no idea what happened in the 60's and 70's.
i live upstate and i can describe the rabid liberals up here as so desperately anti trump they will endorse any stupid thing so long as trump hates it
Because Gen Z’s don’t even know about 9/11 much less the 60’s
Same logic as: Man asked why he kept hitting himself in the head with a hammer ... I like the way it feels when I stop.
We have visited South Bronx like 1980.
There were no standing houses except for some projects.
The city looked like WWII remnant, just full of skeletons of burned houses! It seemed to me from these skeletons, that those houses had been once pretty good!
I heard rumors, that the houses were mostly torched by the owners, so they could at least collect the insurance money?!
“Car 54 made NYC look like a fun place....”
It was
I love the city where I am from, NYC. My grandparents, great grandparents, Irish bricklayers, FDNY, then college devotees, Catholic, musicians, who built it. The ornamental plastering at radio City Misc Hall and the History Museum, the gargoyles on the Chrysler Building
The Irish women raised the Monsy to put up St Patrick’s Cathedral. No one depended on government for these structures. They would never have been magnificent. The Empire State Building was put up in less than a year. It is still magnificent
We should go in for $2.50 concerts in the amphitheater in the Park (Central Park). The Shaeffer Music festival. the Dead, NRPS, Marshall Tucker, then the Talking Heads B 52s.
We cut school and took the train in for the St Patrick Day Parade drink beer with the old guys at the Blarney Stone where they’d serve us
We’d get dressed and meet our fabulous aunts for dinner
It WAS fun
This guy could bury all that forever with sharia law and communism. Or the New New Yorkers for whom, as Anne Coulter said, history stars at breakfast, can get sick and figure out that they’ve been invaded, that foreigners and young angry women out this guy in, get some figure out and some testosterone a semblance that it is actually they who are in charge in a constitutional government under a Declaration of Independence and freaking fix it
Look at Giuliani and what he did, look at Trump. Fix it.
Because they are THAT stupid.
I don’t see the words, De Blasio, on this thread. Why cite the stupidity from decades ago when such a stellar example is far more recent?
These kids aren’t that young. They are that stupid.
The Millennials/Baby Boomers were around on 9/11 yet they voted for Zohram Mamdami.
The numbers are not there yet for Gen Z.
FYI.
David Horowitz Mamdani Won the Votes of Only 14% of NYC Adults There's no mandate here.
Less than that if the election was rigged.
NYC has RCV for a reason.
There's a holdup in the Bronx
Brooklyn's broken in out in fights
There's a traffic jam in Harlem that's backed up to Jackson Heights
There's a scout troop short a child
Khruschev's due at Idlewild
Car 54 where are you?
Was the second instance of Mandami on the ballot in cursive?
Because they are not as smart as they think they are.
Because the vast majority of NYC voters were not alive in the 1960’s so they are clueless…..
They don’t - that was why they did not elect Cuomo !
Approximately 36% to 37% of New York City’s population was foreign-born in recent years, meaning they were born outside of the United States and are not Americans by birth.
Add in the left anti America the numbers add up fast.
A majority of whites, including traditional but non-Hasidic Jews, voted for Cuomo or Sliwa. The margins in the traditional Jewish areas like Forest Hills were favorable to Cuomo but not as strongly pro-Cuomo as the Italian, Irish, and Central European enclaves of the outer boroughs. Hasidic Jewish neighborhoods favored Cuomo by 5:1 or greater margins. You can tell where the Hasidics are present where they stand out in northern Brooklyn. The remaining Italian and Irish areas in Staten Island, southern Brooklyn, and the far eastern Bronx were strongly pro-Cuomo as well, in some instances with Sliwa coming in second and Mandami third. Remaining pockets of Germans and Slavic voters in Maspeth and Middle Village supported Sliwa as well with second place. More than any other group, white Catholics and working class white Protestants have evacuated the five boroughs, sometimes decades ago.
Among higher income white voters, there is an interesting split. The Upper East Side, a once WASP enclave that used to send mostly moderate Republicans to Congress, supported Cuomo strongly. The same is true of affluent, and heavily Jewish, Riverdale. The Lower Manhattan neighborhoods adjacent to Wall Street favored Cuomo, understandable as a Mandami administration would cause brokerage firms and banks moving west or south. In contrast, the areas gentrified in the 1990s and thereafter, like Park Slope, Williamsburg, and the East Village, mostly white and affluent, were strongholds for Mandami. These are the stereotype of leftist, graduate school educated voters, with brains full of mush but without a Professor Kingsfield to discipline their minds.
What pulled Mandami over the top were black, Muslim, South Asian, and Hispanic voters. Keep in mind that it is unlikely that NYC election officials bothered to check the legal status of voters. Even so, solidly black areas like Central Harlem and Bedford-Stuyvesant, where a majority of voters are descended from Southern blacks who migrated North between 1910 and 1970, went for Mandami by 3:1 and 4:1 margins. Most of the non-Southern origin blacks are West Indians, who have often been in the U.S. for decades. Crown Heights, a center for West Indian immigration, was a particular area of strength for Mandami, where he enjoyed 5:1 or greater margins. The same is true for Hispanic areas, whether Puerto Rican, Mexican, Dominican, or Columbian in origin, all these neighborhoods went strongly for Mandami.
In summary, the descendants of the 19th and early 20th Century European immigrants to NYC plus Northeast Asians and the residual WASP population are pitted against the other nonwhite populations and their white leftist allies.
60’s and 70’s will be the golden age.
I still remember when Nikita Khrushchev said “WE WILL BURY YOU!” and it looks like the new generations are digging our graves.
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