So last night, NYC elected Zohran Mamdani and mayor. He calls himself a democrat socialist but in reality, he's simply a socialist and a marxist. His victory speech seemed to reveal a different side of himself that seemed almost a bit scary in my opinion. He's made big promises like free bus service, rent control, free stuff and city run grocery stores. He's also promised to fund his spending by taxing the more affluent "white" neighborhoods. (That sounds racist to me). He also doesn't believe in billionaires, but then again, if not for billionaires, who will be tax to pay for his pie in the sky ambitions?
He has said he want to eliminate the police and jails, and replace them with social workers. I wonder who in their right mind would want to be a social worker tasked with handling domestic violence calls and no armed police by their side? No jails? So people who commit crimes, even violent crimes will be roaming the streets freely? The politicians who make these promises don't care because they are protected by an army of armed security. It's the struggling middle class, working class, and poor who will wind up scared to leave their homes, especially at night. But at the same time, he was duly elected so the people there will need to live with the results. It sure seems like the people in Chicago don't like their socialist extremely woke mayor, despite having elected him.
Last time I checked, crooks don't rob banks if cops are parked outside. Not sure if social workers will be quite the same deterrence.
NY and Wall Street is the home of capitalism and many wealthy people. But if a meaningful number of wealthy people leave NY, or if Wall Street moguls take their business elsewhere, the tax base will dry up. I recall representative AOC prevented Amazon headquarters from relocating to NYC which likely cost the city a significant number of high paying jobs along with tons of tax revenues. Without wealthy people to pay the bills, where will the new mayor find the cash to fund all of his free stuff? The cost pf living and taxes are already high in NYC so some wealthy people, maybe a lot of them are likely to leave for tax havens like Florida, Texas and other less tax crazy states.
This is shaping up to be an interesting social experiment. The democrat party has a lot at stake. When Mamdani fails, which he eventually will, how will democrats defend their policies? "Trump sucks" is not a policy and Trump will be out of office at the end of 2028. Mamdani swore to "fight" Trump, etc etc. Since when does a city mayor have enough leverage to fight and win against the President of the US? But to the radical extreme left, saying you will oppose Trump satisfies the voting base. The democrat party in my opinion, is at a crossroads. They are about to cross the Rubicon where you can't be a moderate in the party, You are either extreme left or you're out. It is likely to turn into a disaster because most of the US is not in favor of their policies.
I always hear how Trump is a threat to democracy. Democracy is doing the will of the people. Being that Trump was a duly elected president, opposing everything he is trying to accomplish is a bigger threat to democracy than anything Trump is doing, such as closing the border, deporting illegal aliens with an emphasis on deporting illegal alien criminals. The democrats are even turning on former democrat sweetheart John Fetterman from Pennsylvania because he supports deporting illegal criminals from the US.
NYC got what they voted for, but I believe they will soon have buyer's remorse.
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