Posted on 11/06/2025 4:13:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Escape from New York is the name of a 1981 film. Now it’s also, many fear, going to be a reality with Mayor-elect Zohran Kwame Mamdani’s impending socialist makeover of NYC. Why, commentator Bill O’Reilly has predicted that his ascendancy will spark an exodus of 765,000-one million Big Apple residents. This, of course, would involve the loss of significant capital.
Yet this is all predicated on the idea that Mamdani’s promises reflect principles more than positions of convenience. And while he is a radical, he’s also a power seeker who surely aspires to higher office. So questions arise:
Will Mamdani go the full socialist monty and risk crashing NYC?
Or will he, being the consummate politician he was on the campaign trail, practice some Machiavellian moderation?
Should he pursue the latter route, he not only will survive politically, but will certainly have a good excuse. “Tyrant Trump and the establishment are standing in the way of progress!” Mamdani will be able to say. “They’re stymieing the people’s agenda!”
(“So I need even more power,” would be the message — “‘governor’ comes to mind.”)
Won’t Lives on Can’t Street?
Mamdani can’t actually build a wall around NYC to keep people in, as was done in the “escape” movie. (It was only around Manhattan in the film.) And unlike Cold War communists, who also kept people captive via a wall, he won’t enjoy absolute power. He’s going to have to play well with others to get things done.
So while USA Today laments that “[n]ow we get to see full-blown socialism in action,” well, maybe, maybe not. Just consider five obstacles confronting Mamdani, according to New York insiders. Politico lists them in this order:
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A communist.
Obama was very good at it. This guy will be better.
This malicious Maleficent muzz marxist mashup will probe for a few months to see how much he can get away with. Then it will be bombs away, with non stop Taqiyaa for the stupid infidels and dhimmis.
Or maybe become a sensible moderate, reaching out to independents and GOP voters to make gradual improvements in their lives while respecting the traditional American Way of Life and its heritage. /S
When you wake up from that dream, watch for squads of flying pigs overhead.
What line in the angry acceptance speech showed anything that couldn't have been shouted by a Cuban Revolutionary in a vendetta against us?
Come on! Mamdani should have been on the TERRORIST WATCH LIST, instead he is the Mayor of New YORK. This country is inane.
Better at destruction than Obama? Possibly, since his puppeteers are the same people.
I’m sure he’s well advised but the more you listen to him the more you see he’s an idiot like AOC. A T-shirt, bumber sticker, slogan. Not a lot of depth. Doubtful he could manage a convenience store, much less a big city. This will be interesting. NY deserves it
Mayor of New York city.
Country as a whole is not insane,
just Liberals hiding in their liberal
enclaves called major cities.
Problem is the liberal run cities
no longer serve the
purpose of building a nation.
They now merely destroy and enslave it.
Productive people will leave and
evolution will operate as usual, If you can’t
adapt, you will die.
He’s gonna go full Muslim and try to implement Sharia law
There is zero evidence to think that hiis actions will be any different than his rhetoric.
Nah his voters expect results and rainbows from the moment he gets in there.
A celebrity politician. Nowhere to hide, now.
Hey, let’s get an incompetent ideological extremist who hates America to run our largest and most important city, what could possibly go wrong?
You’d be further ahead with Justin Trudeau as mayor — at least he can count money.
He will be a fire-breathing serpent.
Mamdani will use his Communist policies to keep the press busy, while building a Muslim swamp in the background.
Well Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, etc didn’t start killing people right away. So it is natural for a commie/socialist to time the really nasty stuff until later on in their careers.
“Or will he, being the consummate politician he was on the campaign trail, practice some Machiavellian moderation?”
I’m leaning toward that. But I’m not familiar with NYC council makeup and whether they support his crazy agenda and whether it has enough votes to pass .
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