Socialist Win in City of 9/11 Betrays 100m Dead in Bloody 20th Century
I can’t really say I am surprised although at some level the realization is, nevertheless, jarring.
New York City has elected an avowed socialist Muslim, Zohran Mamdani, as its mayor. Mamdani is the real thing. Among other things, he has called repeatedly for “globalizing the intifada.” Although Mamdani explained this statement away as meaning nothing more than a desire for Palestinian “equality and human rights,” it is actually a call for violence against Jews.
Regarding his Socialist views, the late-great British Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, famously said that “the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.” The Iron Lady distills the fundamental flaw in the economic structure of socialism—that for a society to have sufficient wealth to redistribute to the non-producers, someone must produce the wealth in the first place.
And, as we know, it won’t be the government, which only leeches wealth from the private sector. Such wealth can only be created by the private sector through initiative, ambition, hard work, free enterprise, self-sacrifice and personal motivation, character traits that are suppressed or destroyed by the deadening and dark structures of Socialism.
But I think Thatcher’s analysis, though accurate as an economic matter, is incomplete because Socialism is at its core, a ‘moral’ system which rejects the transcendent and views the government as God and as the source of human rights, and seeks to implement its will by force and without regard for fundamental, God-given human rights as expressed by Thomas Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence.
William McGurn, in the Wall Street Journal, explains that socialism appeals to voters because “no matter how much socialism fails in practice, socialists will blame greedy businessmen, never socialism itself. In the same way, socialists and people who don’t understand economics attribute the unaffordability of housing, medical care and education to market failure. Never does it occur to them that the culprit might be the perverse effects of government regulation.” (WSJ, Nov. 4, 2025).
Mamdani’s socialist model has failed every time, everywhere this poisonous creed has been attempted. The list of failed socialist states includes the former Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Maoist China, Venezuela, North Korea, Cuba, and the list goes on. It has resulted in despicable abuses of human rights coupled with crippling economic inefficiencies resulting in abject poverty. Only the people at the top benefit. Not the people at large.
In fact, the brutal, bloody history of the 20th Century—with over 100 million dead—demonstrates that socialist governments move from authoritarian control to suppression of dissent and a loss of personal freedom to mass deaths of their own citizens!
Who could have ever predicted that only 24 years after the September 11th attack in New York City an avowed Socialist Muslim Mayor would be elected in the nation’s largest city and the world center of capitalism, an economic system that has ‘lifted the boats’ of millions worldwide out of poverty.
In fact, Mamdani, who won with a pledge of “affordability,” is soon going to make NYC far less so, promising higher taxes, free daycare, free buses, and rent control, and he is committed to ‘seizing the means of production.’
He will also coddle and free criminals, defund the police, and replace them with social workers. He has promised huge social programs and intends to fund his agenda primarily through higher taxes on businesses and on New York City’s highest earners. However, that is going to require support from the governor and state legislature. We’ll see how that goes.
So, we must proceed with caution with our eyes wide open because, as President Reagan said, socialists “don’t subscribe to our sense of morality; they don’t believe in an afterlife; they don’t believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause of socialism.”
So, we must realize that we have been given fair warning of the danger of the mind virus that we must prevent from spreading from NYC to other parts of America—the virus that Winston Churchill described as ‘the equal sharing of miseries’—before it is too late.
Because, as President Reagan also said, ‘if we don’t do this, one of these days you and I are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was like in America when men and women were free.’ We will be vigilant!
