I have read a multitude of articles and opinion pieces on the victory of Zohran Mamdani in the Democrat primary election for mayor of New York City. Many have been informative and insightful but have not addressed some essential points. This column is meant to do that.
This happening is a manifestation of the education system manipulating the minds of their targets – the students. That trend is delineated in Christopher Rufo’s terrific book, America’s Cultural Revolution. The Left took control of the education system and altered the minds of the last two generations.
They made them into environmental zealots with little science behind what they promoted, and they turned them into people willing to vote for a person who calls himself a ”socialist” who tells these people he will give them many free things. That education system never taught them that the form of government Mamdani wants has never worked anywhere. It always ends with people’s rights being destroyed and failure. Telling them that would be a buzz kill so the Leftist professors just groom their students and leave them to suffer the consequences while the professors live their cushy lives in the overpaid environments.
The Wall Street Journal analysis states Mamdani was propelled by young college graduates. You must be college educated to fall for this malarkey. It is always the so-called “educated” that led the revolution. In this case it is white liberals and often Jewish white liberals who know better than everyone else because they are “educated.” As I have often said, the most dangerous people in America are white liberals.
Because of their orientation from their education, they do not recognize the fact the government caused the problems that have been created. Their solution is to advocate for more government. They live in a state that has 20% less population than the state of Florida. Despite the difference in population, the New York State budget is $252 billion versus $115 billion for Florida. That is $12,602 per person versus $4,828 for Florida or more than 2.5 times as much per person. One might say that New York City is not New York State, but it is 42.5% of the population and we all know NYC is the tail wagging the dog. The flow of New Yorkers out of the state to Florida tells you where they think life is better — and it is not just the weather.
New York City folks are unhappy about their rent. Everyone except these folks know that the rent control apparatus in New York has virtually destroyed the market. Last year 26,310 apartment units were held off the market because the owners cannot make economic sense of renting them because of rent controls and other oversight factors. 13,000 have been held off for two years. Landlords cannot afford repairs. There are 38,600 units registered as vacant. New rent controls will continue to crush the market. Rents controls have been in place in NYC since 1943. If rent controls were effective, you would think that apartments would be affordable and plentiful. As always, they say “They just haven’t been done correctly, try it this way.” Mamdani will make things even worse.
Mamdani purports to be a man of the people. He is not. He moved to the United States to live in Manhattan on the Upper West Side, one of the most exclusive addresses in the entire country. He went to an exclusive private school through the eighth grade. He attended Bowdoin College, a pricey exclusive private university. He has zero personal experience being part of the working class.
Mamdani has a dysfunctional understanding of economics. He is proposing a new income tax of 2 percent on residents making more than $1 million a year, which he estimates would bring in roughly $4 billion per year. That will never materialize. He does not understand the world as it exists. If he were to impose that tax, he would see the people who produce that income disappear. It has happened repeatedly. It is happening now in Britain where a new tax is driving people out of the country. Read about it. Wall Street has significantly moved to Palm Beach and has a central core there already. That would entice so many more to relocate their operations.
They do not have to start from scratch. As much as they love New York many will say enough is enough. Broadway and bagels can only hold people for so long.
All this is demonstrated in the elected individuals running the three largest cities in America. Los Angeles’ Karen Bass and Chicago’s Brandon Johnson. Those two are doing their best to destroy these cities. They care more about the homeless than the homed. They care more about illegal immigrants (you will never catch them using the term “illegal”) than the Americans born here. Bill de Blasio did his best to run NYC into the ground. Eric Adams is at least trying to save it. But white liberals may ride to the rescue of Mamdani and once again bring NYC to its knees.
If you do not believe he is a Communist from these proposals, note that in 2021 he stated he believes in the need to “seize the means of production” which is directly from Karl Marx and the Communist Manifesto.
If these white (supposedly) educated people would leave us alone and not stick us with these Communists in charge of our largest cities, then we might have some salvation. Mamdani supposedly is charming. Communists all have charm — until they are in charge.
