Posted on 10/24/2025 5:08:50 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
A lot of people have asked me if I will get involved in the NYC mayor race by supporting a candidate that can defeat Zohran Mamdani. TBH, I’m torn and undecided. Like every other city run by democrats, NYC is a broken kleptocracy. Taxes are astronomical and services are pathetic to nonexistent. Anarchy and socialism are the next logical steps in this story arc. It's what the people of NYC have been asking for for years and it looks like it's what they are about to get. Trying to fight against this tide seems like throwing good money after bad.
It appears things will have to get worse in NYC before they get better. The Zoomers and Millennials need a refresher on the outcome of Marxism and socialism. They are too young to remember the crack and crime epidemic and murder sprees of the late 80's and early 90's. The squeegee men, graffiti, mugging, lawlessness, chaos, and pandemonium. Streets that were too unsafe to walk alone at night or even during the day. Getting mugged on the way to and from school was not just a rite of passage, it was an inevitability.
The Wall Streeters, financiers, and hedge funders have been too busy working on their fishponds and climbing the rungs of polite society to remember to protect the system that allowed them to achieve their success in the first place and allowed New York City to once become the greatest city in the world. Not ruffling feathers was more important than questioning the ideological insanity being taught in the private schools and universities that they sent their kids to. All that mattered was fitting in and getting invited to the right dinner parties.
Now their kids are indoctrinated NPCs, always protesting and supporting the current thing. Like their parents, they too want to fit in. To do so, they unironically exchange bromides and platitudes on the benefits of socialism over rosé brunches in the West Village. Because their friends hate America and capitalism, they do too. It never dawns on them that their lifestyle and studio apartment that their parents subsidize are all made possible because of capitalism.
This delusional thinking was ingrained in them at an early age by institutions that were captured by insane ideology and left unchecked by their grossly negligent parents. Instead of providing their children with immunity from stupid and provably bad ideas that have only led to misery and death throughout history, these parents shrugged it off as kids will be kids.
Now these kids are adults who can vote, but are totally unequipped to do so. In many ways it’s not their fault. From their parents, they learned some combination of magical thinking, preference falsification, and an inability to stand up for anything greater than themselves. As a result, they never learned how to think critically or independently. They never learned the value of Western civilization so they don't understand why, or know how, to fight for it.
Sometimes the only way to learn something is to learn it the hard way. Sometimes the only way to learn the value of what you have is to lose it. If that’s the case, Marxism and socialism might just be what the doctor ordered.
“He stepped to the window and pointed to the skyscrapers of the city. He said that we had to extinguish the lights of the world, and when we would see the lights of New York go out, we would know that our job was done.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
Good reference.
yeah, well, i didn’t vote my self into being born into an age where true capitalism, a true free economy wasn’t truly in existence. I didn’t vote my self into being born into a life and web of lies either,,, but here the hell i am.
Even after 4 years of commie policies, they won't admit they did it to themselves.
They elect him, they can live with the consequences. Pass the popcorn!
The fear is, that it will not stay contained.
They will blame Trump.
Wow.
Exactly. Great post.
“Sometimes the only way to learn something is to learn it the hard way. Sometimes the only way to learn the value of what you have is to lose it. If that’s the case, Marxism and socialism might just be what the doctor ordered.”
Consequences is the best teacher. Though he can be rather harsh!
That's the trouble. NYC today. Tomorrow it will be in LA, Chicago, SF, Boston, Seattle, Portland.
The Left will nominate Muslim Mayors just to prove to the world how "woke" they are.
He talks about elite kid craziness. But they are an infinitesimal part of the NYC voting base. The primary base is in the 4 non elite boroughs outside Manhattan which are increasingly more immigrant, except small voting base Staten Island which is Republican. Those immigrant POCs are very comfortable with socialism. Mamdani’s fantasy socialism suits their preferences
Could Mamdani have gotten over the edge in the primary though without at least some Elite support/validation?
Except for bodega owners.
Mamdami performed better in Manhattan (wealthier and whiter) than in the Bronx. People in Manhattan are more likely to be woke, you know how that goes.
Like you've mentioned, Staten Island is traditionally Republican because it is mostly working class Italian-American.
“Could Mamdani have gotten over the edge in the primary though without at least some Elite support/validation?”
Actually, you make a great point here. With only less than per cent of the Dem voting base showing up in the Dem primary and his primary effort directed at getting out the elite kids you are talking about with the “normal” Dems staying at home, they had an outsize impact on making him the Dem candidate. But it is the outer borough immigrant POCs and the usual wacko Manhattan progressives that will seat him in the general.
“Could Mamdani have gotten over the edge in the primary though without at least some Elite support/validation?”
Actually, you make a great point here. With only less than 10 per cent of the Dem voting base showing up in the Dem primary and his primary effort directed at getting out the elite kids you are talking about with the “normal” Dems staying at home, they had an outsize impact on making him the Dem candidate. But it is the outer borough immigrant POCs and the usual wacko Manhattan progressives that will seat him in the general.
I always get a kick out of the Italian Americans in Staten Island. They are a thorn in the side of the Dem crazies in the other 4 boroughs. The New York City council is all Dems except the one Republican Staten Island always sends there to drive them crazy. lol Too bad the other four boroughs were not loaded up with cannolis and Italian Americans...except the Cuomos, of course
Staten Island should secede. They’re not really a part of NYC.
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