“Unintended consequences.” I would argue that the consequences are far from unintended. They are intentional. Mamdani’s purpose is not to “save” New York; it is to destroy the Capitalist infidels that occupy New York and then reclaim the city in the name of Allah. Socialism/Communism is a cover. And the kids are buying it.
Socialism—and all its other names—will never result in a healthy, happy society. It punishes high productivity and rewards low productivity. The only way to keep it in place is through tyrannical force. Misery, along with potential revolution, will always be laying in the shadows.
Many people confuse capitalism with everything that happens in society. For example, when government gets too big and colludes with big business, that is fascism, not capitalism, because markets are rigged, not free.
For a full-throated advocacy for capitalism—what it is, what it isn't, and how it must be taught—readers might be interested in the following posts on The Menelaus Gambit:
"Capitalism Makes Life Better. Big-Government Socialisms Make It Worse."
We need to understand why so many people have opted out of seeking work. Doubtless some believe that the government will take care of their needs. Some are depressed , clinically, and we need to sort that out. Some have no skills or the wrong skills.
I am sure you are on to "the why" of not looking for work. However, if these slackers look in the mirror, they will see the one person responsible for their situation. Personal choices have landed then where they are. Free shit has simply padded the bed they rest on. Take away the free shit and/or make them work for some/all of it.
I watched many of the recent X "threats of robbery and looting" if food stamps are not funded this weekend. Get off your fat ass and go get a job. Do something that is at least better than complaining "woe is me". Funny how all those relatively well/over fed people have a cell phone and the time to lay around and post on social media.
It is sickening to me to read these stories. Very little sympathy and we continue to coddle these folks instead of hold them accountable.
Riddle me this: why is it that the "depressed, clinically" are concentrated in one demographic? Why is it that those with "no skills or the wrong skills" are concentrated in one demographic? Off-the-boat aliens who are illiterate in their own language and don't speak English are able to work. It's not even racism; black West Africans and Caribbeans work hard and don't claim depression.
The Zohrantifada has conquered NYC and the DNC. "Escape from New York" is a cult classic movie that captures the current moment. A decade of demoralization destroyed our greatest city: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/escapefromnewyork
I’m a horror/sci fi writer and have been calling Carpenter a documentarian for years - joking but not joking - earlier often in reference to his plastic surgery gang. that glib reference has taken on new meaning…
I have lived in NYC for over 30 years. I lived through 9/11 so close that my building was in the dust cloud and had a keyboard on it’s roof and my daughter was 2 years old. I’m leaving. Enough of the batshit craziness. I’m out. And I know more friends who are also streaming for the exits. De Blasio was a dry run for this horror show.
What do you suppose the Mamdani family was doing as the twin towers fell on 9-11? Is there any doubt that they all were celebrating? How amazingly stupid can the population of New York be to elect this Bin Laden wanna be?
I must admit that I am terrified at the prospect of Mamdani being elected mayor of New York, that powerful symbol of Western civilization. Another Sept 11 . Another powerful symbolic earthquake. Another tragic attack on Western civilization by radical islam.
I happen to live in Paris so why am I so terrified? Luckily, I won’t be the one living through the mess that will follow in NY. So why?
Beyond the disastrous social and economic consequences for the very people that are supposed to be the beneficiaries of Mamdanîs socialist policy, (which history has proved over and over again that it is an easy recipe for disaster) , I am extremely worried that this man who is about to be elected as major is the co founder of Students for Justice in Palestine, an Islamist organization. He is the man who refused to disavow the calls for intifada in the streets of America. Once elected , at breakneck speed, he will go on seeding every layer of NY society with his own loyalists — Islamists cut from the same cloth — for that is his true purpose. The New York school system is already rotting from within with rampant islamization ; next will come city hall, the police, the hospitals, the social services, and beyond.
And yet, New York’s voters keep chasing the same glittering socialist mirage that is widely known as a failure everywhere it was implemented.
Islamists organizations generally follow in the footsteps of the Muslim Brotherhood. For example , Hamas and Hezbollah are among them. And what were the mobs chanting in massive demonstrations all over the US? Death to America !!!!All of this should have been plain enough to anyone who hadn’t willfully blinded and deafened themselves.
And indeed the « Muslim Brothers Memorandum » published in 1991 makes no mystery that the goal of the muslim « settlements » in America is to quietly destroy it from within. Page 7 of the english translation is crystal clear. For the curious, you will find it on the internet. Quite shilling document.
Please restack broadly . The situation is very scary !
Paris itself is a cautionary tale. Eh? I remember talking with a French friend in Paris in 2009 who said he and his family were considering a move to South America - that he “didn’t even recognize his own country.” He wasn’t talking about lowering standards for wine or cheese.
All of us in Western Civilization had better wake up, pay attention and make some informed and hard nosed choices - or we’re going to lose this great experiment in governance and freedom. (I know I’m not telling people on this blog anything we don’t already know but as best we can, we need to prod others to this understanding.)
I agree and I’m so sorry. I think the UK is even worse although friends tell me in the small villages they don’t see the issues at all. The problem is that it’s just a matter of time and they all need to do something about it Now.
"extremely worried that this man who is about to be elected as major is the co founder of Students for Justice in Palestine"
Mamdani only founded a university chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.
From the national board of SJP came Maher Bitar, Biden's Senior Director for Intelligence at the National Security Council. He is now part of Adam Schiff's Senate staff.
Zohran Mamdani has been a minor figure until now; as a Pappa's Boy, what matters is what his father, Mahmood Mamdani of Columbia University (where else?) believes.
You'll easily find online his expressions of support for every sort of Muslim suicide bomber.
For example a couple of days ago more than a 100 TGV trains have been cancelled because the optical fibers on several lines had been destroyed and the initial details from the ministry of transportation pointed to sabotage by the extreme left. In other words the crowd now called Islamic gauchiste. No single week go by without actions creating chaos and an atmosphere of constant insurrection clearly expressed by calls to « intifada »
Worse and worse by the day even though there is clearly a rising awareness in the general public of creeping Islamization of the whole country. But the political leaders are cowards in front of a big Muslim minority and above all the judicial system in all different courts block the government decisions to expel terrorists, radical imams, foreign murderers of all strips , and when such an order is won in court the authorities seem to be incapapable of implementing the orders of expulsion. There are 800 000 of such cases of people who fail to be expelled and continue to kill rape etc. These nb come from the ministry of Interior
Good article. Chris, now write an article on the causes that allowed and encouraged the rise of the DSA. Maybe start in our school systems that did not teach “civics” (dating myself) classes, that did not teach the history and concepts upon which our freedoms were built, or that our history is flawed but we remain the most free country in the world. “Now we suffer the evils of a long peace: luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world” Roman Emperor Juvenal.
This is actually true. I've spoken with UWS "liberals." We agree amazingly well on the problems facing NYC. But even more amazingly, they place the blame on Trump and "MAGA Republicans"! This is what you get from only reading NYT, watching MSNBC, and listening to NPR.
Don’t forget he/they will demand that the rest of the taxpayers fund more and more of the inevitable failed policies… and hate those tax payers as they step up ( depending on the then party in power). I think they deserve what they vote for but I’m sick of being blamed for the results and having to bail them out so they can do it all over again…rinse and repeat.
It won't be limited to NYC or NY. The DSA is a nationally funded insurrection, funded by far-left anarcho-capitalists including but not limited to the Soros', and foreign powers including but not limited to the People's Republic of China.
Mamdani's platform and policies are in conflict with each other and in conflict among the disparate groups of supporters. Free sex change operations certainly do not fall within the realm of approval among his Muslim followers. Even liberal jews do not support terrorism against their fellow jews. Defunding police and reallocating to social workers definitely would both not be agreed with by jews or muslims or blacks. Sounds like many of his supporters are blinding themselves to what they do not agree with and seeing only what they like.
A. They've been showing how blind they are for > 2 years. See: Queers for Palestine, feminists supporting the burka. Not to mention Jews who support Hamas. B. The Supporters Do Not Want To Know and Will Not Listen. And show no respect to Jews who have changed their political views since 10/7. C. Mamdani is completely mercenary. Just like AOC. Both are untrustworthy liars.
Mamdani makes the point that LaGuardia identified as a socialist. What are the salient differences, the first of course being Fiorello’s respect for law enforcement and understanding of its necessity to ensure a decent life for people of limited means.
What Mamdani does not mention, most probably because he is ignorant of the fact, is that there were many socialists floating around during the 1930s and 40s. Stalin was like a rock star, with his "new" form of economic governance being widely accepted. Fortunately, it rapidly became apparent that socialism/communism, although utopian on paper, only lead to poverty and oppression. Too many today need a history lesson.
Conservative intellectual Thomas Sowell said he was a socialist when he was young, "because everyone was a socialist." When asked "what turned you into a capitalist", he replied "facts."
Chris, you are leaving a very important factor out of equation. DSA has long become a tool for a very secretive and powerful organization, Muslim Brotherhood. It will not be a mere socialist revolution. It will be a demographic and cultural revolution harnessing the anti-Trump energy of the liberal public. NYC will be flooded with investments and grants from Qatar. There will be a massive investment in K-12 indoctrination. Current teachers unions will look mellow compared to what to be expected. You are looking at Latin America as a model for your forecast, but Iran is what you should be looking at. It will also masquerade itself as religious freedom revival that will be hard for American conservatives to counter because of their traditional support for religion. We are dealing with a political conquest presenting itself as a religion of peace.
“Unintended consequences.” I would argue that the consequences are far from unintended. They are intentional. Mamdani’s purpose is not to “save” New York; it is to destroy the Capitalist infidels that occupy New York and then reclaim the city in the name of Allah. Socialism/Communism is a cover. And the kids are buying it.
alhamdullilah
Socialism—and all its other names—will never result in a healthy, happy society. It punishes high productivity and rewards low productivity. The only way to keep it in place is through tyrannical force. Misery, along with potential revolution, will always be laying in the shadows.
And low productivity is becoming a norm. Many are not even seeking work.
Many people confuse capitalism with everything that happens in society. For example, when government gets too big and colludes with big business, that is fascism, not capitalism, because markets are rigged, not free.
For a full-throated advocacy for capitalism—what it is, what it isn't, and how it must be taught—readers might be interested in the following posts on The Menelaus Gambit:
"Capitalism Makes Life Better. Big-Government Socialisms Make It Worse."
https://ernestdlieberman.substack.com/p/political-economy-capitalism-makes
"Big-Government Socialisms, NOT Capitalism, Caused Economic Disasters in the 1930s, 2000-2002, 2008, and the 2020s"
https://ernestdlieberman.substack.com/p/big-government-socialisms-not-capitalism
We need to understand why so many people have opted out of seeking work. Doubtless some believe that the government will take care of their needs. Some are depressed , clinically, and we need to sort that out. Some have no skills or the wrong skills.
I am sure you are on to "the why" of not looking for work. However, if these slackers look in the mirror, they will see the one person responsible for their situation. Personal choices have landed then where they are. Free shit has simply padded the bed they rest on. Take away the free shit and/or make them work for some/all of it.
I watched many of the recent X "threats of robbery and looting" if food stamps are not funded this weekend. Get off your fat ass and go get a job. Do something that is at least better than complaining "woe is me". Funny how all those relatively well/over fed people have a cell phone and the time to lay around and post on social media.
It is sickening to me to read these stories. Very little sympathy and we continue to coddle these folks instead of hold them accountable.
You are so correct.
Riddle me this: why is it that the "depressed, clinically" are concentrated in one demographic? Why is it that those with "no skills or the wrong skills" are concentrated in one demographic? Off-the-boat aliens who are illiterate in their own language and don't speak English are able to work. It's not even racism; black West Africans and Caribbeans work hard and don't claim depression.
Let them STARVE 🤷
The Zohrantifada has conquered NYC and the DNC. "Escape from New York" is a cult classic movie that captures the current moment. A decade of demoralization destroyed our greatest city: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/escapefromnewyork
I’m a horror/sci fi writer and have been calling Carpenter a documentarian for years - joking but not joking - earlier often in reference to his plastic surgery gang. that glib reference has taken on new meaning…
I have lived in NYC for over 30 years. I lived through 9/11 so close that my building was in the dust cloud and had a keyboard on it’s roof and my daughter was 2 years old. I’m leaving. Enough of the batshit craziness. I’m out. And I know more friends who are also streaming for the exits. De Blasio was a dry run for this horror show.
What do you suppose the Mamdani family was doing as the twin towers fell on 9-11? Is there any doubt that they all were celebrating? How amazingly stupid can the population of New York be to elect this Bin Laden wanna be?
Looking at Com-dani, he would have been 10-11 yrs old. not even sure he was living in the US since he became a citizen 6 yrs ago.
Was he celebrating , I would assume at least his family was...
scary times. good luck NYC.
I must admit that I am terrified at the prospect of Mamdani being elected mayor of New York, that powerful symbol of Western civilization. Another Sept 11 . Another powerful symbolic earthquake. Another tragic attack on Western civilization by radical islam.
I happen to live in Paris so why am I so terrified? Luckily, I won’t be the one living through the mess that will follow in NY. So why?
Beyond the disastrous social and economic consequences for the very people that are supposed to be the beneficiaries of Mamdanîs socialist policy, (which history has proved over and over again that it is an easy recipe for disaster) , I am extremely worried that this man who is about to be elected as major is the co founder of Students for Justice in Palestine, an Islamist organization. He is the man who refused to disavow the calls for intifada in the streets of America. Once elected , at breakneck speed, he will go on seeding every layer of NY society with his own loyalists — Islamists cut from the same cloth — for that is his true purpose. The New York school system is already rotting from within with rampant islamization ; next will come city hall, the police, the hospitals, the social services, and beyond.
And yet, New York’s voters keep chasing the same glittering socialist mirage that is widely known as a failure everywhere it was implemented.
Islamists organizations generally follow in the footsteps of the Muslim Brotherhood. For example , Hamas and Hezbollah are among them. And what were the mobs chanting in massive demonstrations all over the US? Death to America !!!!All of this should have been plain enough to anyone who hadn’t willfully blinded and deafened themselves.
And indeed the « Muslim Brothers Memorandum » published in 1991 makes no mystery that the goal of the muslim « settlements » in America is to quietly destroy it from within. Page 7 of the english translation is crystal clear. For the curious, you will find it on the internet. Quite shilling document.
Please restack broadly . The situation is very scary !
Paris itself is a cautionary tale. Eh? I remember talking with a French friend in Paris in 2009 who said he and his family were considering a move to South America - that he “didn’t even recognize his own country.” He wasn’t talking about lowering standards for wine or cheese.
All of us in Western Civilization had better wake up, pay attention and make some informed and hard nosed choices - or we’re going to lose this great experiment in governance and freedom. (I know I’m not telling people on this blog anything we don’t already know but as best we can, we need to prod others to this understanding.)
Yes we have to repeat it as frequently as possible since many of our friends are sleeping.
In France I believe it is 5 minutes to 12.00 (midnight)
I agree and I’m so sorry. I think the UK is even worse although friends tell me in the small villages they don’t see the issues at all. The problem is that it’s just a matter of time and they all need to do something about it Now.
Agrée. It’s just a matter of time and then it might well be too late
"extremely worried that this man who is about to be elected as major is the co founder of Students for Justice in Palestine"
Mamdani only founded a university chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine.
From the national board of SJP came Maher Bitar, Biden's Senior Director for Intelligence at the National Security Council. He is now part of Adam Schiff's Senate staff.
What does that mean « a chapter » ?
It means the SJP group in his university only, not the national one
Ok . But still it reveals what he believes in , which he shows quite openly already
Zohran Mamdani has been a minor figure until now; as a Pappa's Boy, what matters is what his father, Mahmood Mamdani of Columbia University (where else?) believes.
You'll easily find online his expressions of support for every sort of Muslim suicide bomber.
Well do tell, how are things in Paris?
For example a couple of days ago more than a 100 TGV trains have been cancelled because the optical fibers on several lines had been destroyed and the initial details from the ministry of transportation pointed to sabotage by the extreme left. In other words the crowd now called Islamic gauchiste. No single week go by without actions creating chaos and an atmosphere of constant insurrection clearly expressed by calls to « intifada »
Worse and worse by the day even though there is clearly a rising awareness in the general public of creeping Islamization of the whole country. But the political leaders are cowards in front of a big Muslim minority and above all the judicial system in all different courts block the government decisions to expel terrorists, radical imams, foreign murderers of all strips , and when such an order is won in court the authorities seem to be incapapable of implementing the orders of expulsion. There are 800 000 of such cases of people who fail to be expelled and continue to kill rape etc. These nb come from the ministry of Interior
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Good article. Chris, now write an article on the causes that allowed and encouraged the rise of the DSA. Maybe start in our school systems that did not teach “civics” (dating myself) classes, that did not teach the history and concepts upon which our freedoms were built, or that our history is flawed but we remain the most free country in the world. “Now we suffer the evils of a long peace: luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world” Roman Emperor Juvenal.
Every one of Mamdani’s failures will be blamed on Trump.
This is actually true. I've spoken with UWS "liberals." We agree amazingly well on the problems facing NYC. But even more amazingly, they place the blame on Trump and "MAGA Republicans"! This is what you get from only reading NYT, watching MSNBC, and listening to NPR.
Don’t forget he/they will demand that the rest of the taxpayers fund more and more of the inevitable failed policies… and hate those tax payers as they step up ( depending on the then party in power). I think they deserve what they vote for but I’m sick of being blamed for the results and having to bail them out so they can do it all over again…rinse and repeat.
I want to say let NY get what it votes for but I know when it all falls apart, the rest of us non-NYers will foot the bill to bail them out.
It won't be limited to NYC or NY. The DSA is a nationally funded insurrection, funded by far-left anarcho-capitalists including but not limited to the Soros', and foreign powers including but not limited to the People's Republic of China.
We saw this movie already, under Bill Bolshevik De Blasio. Will New Yorkers ever learn?
Apparently they will not.
Excellent piece of insightful journalism!!
Mamdani's platform and policies are in conflict with each other and in conflict among the disparate groups of supporters. Free sex change operations certainly do not fall within the realm of approval among his Muslim followers. Even liberal jews do not support terrorism against their fellow jews. Defunding police and reallocating to social workers definitely would both not be agreed with by jews or muslims or blacks. Sounds like many of his supporters are blinding themselves to what they do not agree with and seeing only what they like.
A. They've been showing how blind they are for > 2 years. See: Queers for Palestine, feminists supporting the burka. Not to mention Jews who support Hamas. B. The Supporters Do Not Want To Know and Will Not Listen. And show no respect to Jews who have changed their political views since 10/7. C. Mamdani is completely mercenary. Just like AOC. Both are untrustworthy liars.
"If you are twenty and you are not a socialist you have no heart; if you are thirty and you are still a socialist you have no brian."
NYC is full of real 20-somethings, and far older people who fancy themselves 20-somethings.
https://nypost.com/2025/09/01/opinion/zohran-mamdani-fans-have-no-clue-of-the-horror-socialists-in-a-hurry-unleash/
Mamdani makes the point that LaGuardia identified as a socialist. What are the salient differences, the first of course being Fiorello’s respect for law enforcement and understanding of its necessity to ensure a decent life for people of limited means.
What Mamdani does not mention, most probably because he is ignorant of the fact, is that there were many socialists floating around during the 1930s and 40s. Stalin was like a rock star, with his "new" form of economic governance being widely accepted. Fortunately, it rapidly became apparent that socialism/communism, although utopian on paper, only lead to poverty and oppression. Too many today need a history lesson.
Conservative intellectual Thomas Sowell said he was a socialist when he was young, "because everyone was a socialist." When asked "what turned you into a capitalist", he replied "facts."
https://nypost.com/2025/09/01/opinion/zohran-mamdani-fans-have-no-clue-of-the-horror-socialists-in-a-hurry-unleash/
"I know Fiorello LaGuardia. He was a good friend of mine. And you, Zorhan, are not Fiorello Laguardia."
Chris, you are leaving a very important factor out of equation. DSA has long become a tool for a very secretive and powerful organization, Muslim Brotherhood. It will not be a mere socialist revolution. It will be a demographic and cultural revolution harnessing the anti-Trump energy of the liberal public. NYC will be flooded with investments and grants from Qatar. There will be a massive investment in K-12 indoctrination. Current teachers unions will look mellow compared to what to be expected. You are looking at Latin America as a model for your forecast, but Iran is what you should be looking at. It will also masquerade itself as religious freedom revival that will be hard for American conservatives to counter because of their traditional support for religion. We are dealing with a political conquest presenting itself as a religion of peace.