New York’s likely election of Zohran Mamdani to the mayor’s office offers a lesson —and not just to New Yorkers. The rise of Marxist, totalitarian socialists into positions of power has a similar effect across the world and throughout time. It is the template of modern civilization.
Those who can leave do, taking their intellectual and financial capital with them.
COVID tyranny is a great, recent example. Anyone predisposed to tyranny became a tyrant. Even women’s bodies were no longer theirs to control. Democrats should have been more embarrassed, but Democratic women were as much the tip of the spear for that 180 as anyone. And what happened?
The truth of their lies was revealed, at least to some. Women didn’t have the right to control their bodies, and you, regardless of ideological preference, had no rights not granted by the government.
People with means and opportunity ran away from the policy antics of people they had, for years, lionized, funded, and kept in power. The Biden years saw a significant redistribution of both brain and investment power, as they embraced remote work and escaped to rural areas with lower taxes and fewer regulatory barriers.
Places they then, in many cases, try to turn into the place they just left, which brings us to Mamdani. His seemingly inevitable elevation is driving billions in wealth out of the city. The New York Post reports that over a quarter of the residents would consider leaving if Mamdani wins.
More than a quarter of New Yorkers will consider fleeing the Big Apple if Zohran Mamdani is elected mayor, according to a new poll that warns that a socialist-run City Hall “could reshape the city for years to come.”
The shocking new survey, released Friday morning from polling firm Victory Insights, revealed that a “whopping” 26.5% of respondents were thinking about moving in 2026 if the Democratic Socialists of America lawmaker takes the helm.
What people say in a poll and what they can actually manage are never the same. Evidence informs reality. The Anti-Semitic Marxist needs someone to pay for his promises, and that will be the people who lack the means to escape. New York is already a not-so-shining example of Democrat rule. If even a portion of that 26% does as they claim, the city itself will be transformed.
More like the Dark Knight’s crime-riddled, decrepit Gotham, but with no Batman.
The well-to-do will flee, with what they can carry, even with New York’s layers of exit taxes and auditors chasing them wherever they run. The declining middle class will assume the role of the new rich—the economic upper class left to carry a burden they can’t possibly bear.
How fast the city declines from where it is now is a matter of debate, but, as we in New Hampshire have watched Democrats destroy Vermont, Mamdani provides the next layer of research. A real-time example of what an openly Marxist mayor can do to a once-great city.
It’s not all bad. Any Democrat who complains too much about where they live, how much it costs, despite having low taxes and too much liberty, should be encouraged to move to Manhattan. There ought to be plenty of “housing,” and at increasingly affordable rates, as New Yorkers escape to other locales.
You may have to kick out the squatters before you take possession, or maybe you could just squat yourselves, but on paper it’s the utopia you keep promising us —so do us a favor. Move there, and don’t come back.
