The openly Marxist, openly divisive and openly fraudulent Zohran Mamdani is the new Mayor of New York City, elected with 52% of the vote in a city formerly considered the crown jewel of America, and arguably the most important city worldwide of the past 200 years.
During Mamdani’s victory speech, he spoke words that held true to his Marxist vision, and that should send chills down the spine of any student of history, or any keen observer of our modern world.
“We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.”
Of course, every aspect of society, personal choice, foreign intervention, economics, etc., etc., that the government takes an interest in “solving” inevitably results in hardship, stifling regulation, spiraling costs and shortages. That lesson has apparently been long forgotten by the populace of NYC, who fell for the same staple of lies that Socialists always tell: “You will get everything you want for free, and the government can control the market.”
Every one of the promises Zohran Mamdani proclaimed repeatedly on his campaign tour, including freezing the rent, making public transport free, levying brutal taxes on corporations, and more, were on their face lies because the Mayor does not have the power to implement a single one of them. All must either go through the City or State legislature, independent organizations like the Metro Transit Authority, or take votes by the citizenry of the city to enact. Those which he may possibly be able to create, like creating below-market-cost publicly-run supermarkets, are failed propositions that have already gone bankrupt and rot with bare shelves in cities like Minneapolis.
But Mr. Mamdani being denied his Marxist impulses is actually the best case scenario for the residents of NYC, who don’t grasp the irony when they cast their votes that the man who they have chosen would incur on them the absolute opposite of every item promised.
As we have seen throughout history, and can observe currently in Venezuela, which nationalized everything from oil to bakeries to stop “price gouging” – poverty, shortages and starvation are the result. Argentina killed off its rent control, leading to a boom in housing affordability and availability.
Were Major Mamdani’s policies to pass, New York City would see, in very short order:
- An even more major crisis in housing, as landlords stopped renting, stopped building, stopped improving and started exiting the NYC marketplace.
- Overcrowding of MTA busses and trains as “free” riders took advantage of the offer, requiring additional routes and vehicles to be implemented. However, because there is no charge, there is no funding for this increase. Mamdani has suggested that his extra (illegal) taxation would cover the costs, however he proposition that the rich, or corporations would stay in NYC while being taxed an additional 4% (a number he mentioned during campaigning) is dubious at best and, again, would require legislative assistance to venture. What would occur is jammed lines, angry riders, and a breakdown in maintenance and availability.
- Should public supermarkets be installed they would quickly run out of supplies as shoppers have no impetus to cost-save or limit purchases. Manufacturers will not sell goods for lower than the cost required to create them so there would be mass shortages, with bare shelves and long lines for what little remains. In turn, shoppers would be forced to shop at even more expensive grocery retail stores where prices have increased due to the shortened supply that was sold off at below-market prices previously.
Above all, the Marxist Mayor of New York City is an indictment of the city media, and teachers unions. The United Federation of Teachers (one of the largest in the USA) provided massive donations and endorsement for the Mamdani campaign – openly declaring its member support for the Marxist foundations of his platform. This comes as no surprise, as the abdication in schools for including the horrors of Marxist, Socialist and Communist rule has been clear over the past several decades.
Mayor Mamdani may serve as the United States modern-day education, filling in the gaps in our failed education system.