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Posted on 11/01/2025 12:45:31 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Can the nation’s greatest city survive full-on socialism?
It is still technically possible that self-declared democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani will not become the next mayor of the nation’s largest city and financial capital of the world. But those chances might best be described as a wing and a prayer. One would have thought that New Yorkers who voted for Mamdani in the Democratic primary months ago without knowing much about him would reconsider their support once they learned the details of his plan to turn the city into a socialist utopia. But the smooth-as-silk 34-year-old native of Uganda continues to hold a lead similar to his margin of victory in the primary.
His chief opponent is the man he easily outdistanced in the primary, Democrat-turned-independent Andrew Cuomo, who carries much of his own heavy baggage and appears to be well past his political prime. The current mayor, Eric Adams, dropped out of the race with minimal impact, and Republican Curtis Sliwa, despite widespread calls for him to pull out and free up the roughly 15% planning to vote for him, has refused to do so, even though it is clear he has perhaps a one-in-a-million shot at winning.
Socialism on Parade
While he has tried to posture as more mainstream than during the primary, little has changed with Mamdani’s agenda. He is promising ramped-up rent control, free public buses, a $30 hourly minimum wage, and city-run grocery stores, all of which have proven disastrous when tried elsewhere. Wall Street will panic, landlords will be squeezed to the breaking point, public transit will be overrun, and unemployment will spike, as businesses forced to pay double the current minimum wage will increasingly employ AI to replace workers they can no longer afford.
Public safety will undoubtedly be weakened in an already dangerous city, considering that...
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THE EXODUS FROM NYC WILL RIVAL MOSES & HIS FOLLOWERS
All heading to Palm Beach County no doubt.
The author is an ignoramus. NYC has been a socialist dump for decades.
Someone keeps adding Keyword(s) spammingfr to every article that you post. I’m curious, do you know what that’s about?
“Can the nation’s greatest city survive full-on socialism?”
It could if the public weren’t so darn stupid.
I asked this question as a thought experiment and nobody responded. OK possible consequences of Mamdani’s election other then in 6 months or less he will be demanding a federal bailout.
Thoughts?
Can the nation’s greatest city survive full-on socialism?“
It can because the state will keep it running and it is not the “greatest city”. It may be the largest but it is filled with deluded morons and gimme dats.
Probably it will take a little more than six months, and his first stop will be Albany.
Does anyone know if NYS’s state constitution allow the state to dismiss a municipal government?
That’s why I asked the question see post 11.
If I had to choose between Muslim socialists for NYC mayor, I would prefer the wrecking ball of the Minneapolis’ Somalian Muslim socialist Omar because NYC needs its first pirate mayor to complete their DEI requirements for its public officials.
Best described “as a wing and a prayer” that self-styled
Democrat socialist Mamdani will NOT become NYC mayor.
<><>One would have thought NY’ers voting for primary Mamdani would’ve reconsidered.
<><>they now know his plan to turn the city into a “socialist utopia.”
<><>Yet smooth-as-silk native Ugandan Mamdani still holds a general election lead.
Right. But they got by.
Now it "may" turn Islamist.
Look at London.
There was an earlier article that said 25% of the population would (will) flee NYC. That is 2 million people. If that comes true it will cost NYC 3 congressional seats.
I would be hard press that that many people would actually leave. But if they did, it would be the highest income earners.
Millions soon to be swearing allegiance to Allah.
Most likely, they'll just end up moving to New Jersey, Long Island, or Stamford, CT.
THE EXODUS FROM NYC WILL RIVAL MOSES & HIS FOLLOWERS
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They will have to build a wall ...
Its time to wall it in, Mr. Plissken.
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