I contend that the Kardashians are popular, famous, and wealthy because they are a non-stop slow-motion train wreck. Like the rubberneckers that bring traffic on the non-accident side of the highway to a standstill, people have this objective obsession with other people’s misery. It is what makes reality television a thing that won’t go away.
Wow, look at the mistake they made.
That may be what has attracted the right to what just happened in New York City. An example of how folks rush in and then find themselves in an abusive, co-dependent relationship with a Marxist, Jihadist. And yes, we can blame white Gen Z women, and they have a lot to answer for, not just this, but the Democratic party has more than tilted left, and this is what you get.
The microscope lights are on. Democrats will have to answer for whatever ruin follows, and if Mamdani has his way and the rest of elected New York City lets him have it, it will be an example of you get what you vote for, and no, it doesn’t work here either.
As a prequel to what seems inevitable, we’ve all been going on about it, what it means, and this bit someone sent to me sums it up nicely.
Here’s what I think will happen in NYC under Zoltan: The free buses and government grocery stores won’t happen; they never do. They sound good during campaigns, but collapse under basic math. You can’t run a city on ideas that cost billions and produce no revenue.
The only way to make housing affordable is to build more housing, and Zoltan has almost no control over that. Who wants to commit capital in a place where they promise to seize your capital? The free market lowers prices, not regulation. Every time politicians try to control rent or force affordability by decree, developers stop building and landlords stop maintaining. Supply dries up, the quality collapses, and the few properties that remain skyrocket in price. Once landlords can’t make a profit, they sell, lose properties, or walk away. Eventually, the government takes over.
Taxes will rise to pay for the promises, and the middle class will be the ones shouldering the burden. The rich will relocate, the poor will depend on subsidies, and the productive class will be squeezed from both sides.
Thriving businesses are the foundation of any thriving city. Look at Portland, Seattle, and San Francisco, which are boarded-up wastelands. When they leave, everything else follows: jobs, schools, grocery stores, and stability.
The City has buildings with 50% vacancy rates, properties they can’t move because it isn’t worth what they need to charge to afford owning an apartment building in New York City. If they get rent-controlled, maintenance will lag, they won’t be able to sell it because no one wants to be in that trap, and the promises Mamdani has made will finish the job COVID started.
As I’ve posited before, the vagrants, bums, and illegals will squat, driving out the paying tenants. The real estate will be used for drug and prostitution rings. Crime will rise, and crime lords and gangs will grow and expand control because it will increasingly be the only way to earn a living.
Mamdani promised fewer cops and more social workers, but you’ll get fewer of both as the latter are beaten up and killed on the streets, only thugs, gangs, and the sharia cops patrol – a problem Mamdani can’t fix without the police state that the socialist system planned for.
The chaos is deliberate. It will expand and continue until New Yorkers demand jack-booted government enforcers to maintain order. Outside the Islamic enclaves, which will have Sharia cops that Mamadani will not prevent, and no one in New York will have the balls to object to.
A situation that will remain, long after Mamadani is no longer their hero or their villain, depending on who you ask and when. And the Islamists will call that a win.
