Posted on 10/31/2025 3:00:02 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Zohran Mamdani was an inevitability for the Big Apple.
It was the night after Inauguration Day. Not a creature was stirring, not even a socialist résumé. The moon hung low over the iconic New York City skyline, casting eerie shadows on boarded-up storefronts along Broadway, First Avenue, and Park Row. Aware of the economic and societal horror about to unfold in the City That Never Sleeps, the fat cats fled to their Hamptons mansions – or under Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ (R) desk. Uber drivers roam the streets, enjoying higher fares from rocketing demand spurred by working-class customers who abandoned the free buses as they metastasized into bedlam, housing the insane and the odious.
Forget it, Jake. It’s Mamdanitown.
The Mamdani Manifesto
Tenets of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign are something out of a wealthy 20-something’s political science paper. Since launching his bid to lead New York City, Mamdani has proposed freezing rent, making bus service free, raising the minimum wage to $30, spending $60 million to build city-owned grocery stores, and offering universal child care and tuition-free public college.
Contrary to comrades who shriek that these ideas have never really been tried, there have been many instances of these concepts failing in the real world.
One example: government grocery stores.
Critics will point to the Soviet Union and Venezuela for historical examples of how government-managed, not-so-super markets have failed. The local government in Kansas City attempted to solve the very problems Mamdani aims to address, mainly “food deserts.” After receiving tens of millions of dollars since 2018, the nonprofit KC Sun Fresh struggled with inventories and crime, forcing the operator to shutter its doors in August. Other stores in Florida and Kansas have faced similar situations despite receiving subsidies.
Does Mamdani want free bus service on his first day...
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LA and Chicago are already run by Commies.
NYC will see that and raise by a concurrent Jihadist too.
This is how our nation falls, viz. city by city.
Yep.
Our larger Urban Utopias are on a trend.
We are headed to a bad place....
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