Zohran Mamdani Declares War on a Core American Principle

God help us, but Zohran Mamdani is officially the mayor of New York City. Naturally, during his inauguration speech, Mamdani, a committed socialist/communist, touched on all the free stuff for deadbeats, drug addicts and illegal aliens he wants to give out. We’ve come to expect this from woke leftists since they typically have no real understanding of economics or history, but it was this statement that drew the most attention:

“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.”

Think about that for a moment.

The mayor of the largest city in America just repudiated 250 years of American greatness.

If we ranked one-phrase descriptions of the United States of America in order, I guarantee “rugged individualism” would make the top ten, and Mamdani just verbally spit on it.

Rugged individualism was the quality that transformed a harsh, savage and untamed landscape into the most glorious nation that ever existed in the history of the world. People like Lewis and Clark, Kit Carson, Jedediah Smith, Daniel Boone, Wyatt Earp and countless other brave Americans embodied the spirit of adventure, resilience and independence that came to define the very nature of what it means to be an American.

But Zohran Mamdani wants to change all that.

Mamdani believes in the beauty of the Borg, you know, from Star Trek, a cold, heartless communal society where no one can be better off than the lowest among them. Where creativity, ambition, intelligence and fortitude are qualities to be scorned in favor of dumbed down expectations, inefficiency, malaise, effeminacy, assimilation and shared misery. It is not without irony that Star Trek refers to the emotionless cyborg/biological hybrids as “the Borg Collective.”

Many African Americans and poor New Yorkers Saw Through the Ruse

In a knee-jerk reaction, I immediately assumed that Mamdani’s demographic coalition would primarily be composed of poor people of all races.

Shame on me for stereotyping.

In fact, a significant number of poor New Yorkers, including African Americans, saw through the sham. In precincts with a majority of black residents, Andre Cuomo won. Overall, 40% of precincts with a low-income majority went for Cuomo versus 38% for Mamdani. A Marist poll taken in May found 47% of residents with a household income of less than $50k planned to vote for Cuomo, while 11% planned to vote for Mamdani.

So, who supported Mamdani?

Elites and foreign-born people.

In exit polls, Mamdani won the majority of those earning between $30k-$299k. He also won a majority of those with college degrees, and, most importantly, he won 85% of voters who had been in New York five years or less. In other words, transients. In majority immigrant neighborhoods, where more than 50% of inhabitants were foreign born, Mamdani outperformed Cuomo by seven points.

Looking at individual neighborhoods is even more enlightening. For example, in Morningside Heights, just northwest of Central Park, Mamdani got 73% of the vote. In that neighborhood, the median home value is $1.1 million, while the average income for a single person is $86,218. Nearly 40% of residents in this neighborhood are foreign born, which is almost 1.5 times higher than the average rate in New York.

Another lesson that confirms an unpleasant truth. We keep inviting people into the U.S. who don’t share our values; eventually, they will replace them with their own.

Mamdani is a Warning to America

Mamdani has one extremely important positive characteristic that cannot be overstated.

He does not lie.

Unlike the vast majority of oily woke leftists who try to hide their authoritarian intent until after an election is over and they take office, Mamdani never hid his intentions. He is very open in his advocacy of government control of the means of production, housing, food and healthcare. While he has been somewhat fuzzy on the details relating to how he intends to achieve these goals, the message is clear: If you are a business owner, landlord or healthcare provider, you are screwed.

In every instance where it’s possible, New York will be making life so miserable and difficult for private enterprise, they will inevitably look to pack up and leave town as soon as possible. In the interim, expect rent control and taxes that will make owning an investment property unprofitable. Upside down landlords will look to bail, and New York will step in to buy pennies on the dollar.

Competition from the government in key industries like retail food will force the larger companies out of New York, and the mom-and-pop operations will fail. Strict regulations on hospitals and insurance companies will drive up the cost of healthcare and compel providers to leave. Under these circumstances, anyone considering opening a business in New York City would have to be mentally deficient or have a masochist complex.

The Line in the Sand

Above all else, we must rise up to meet the challenge of Mamdani’s philosophical line in the sand. We must believe him when he says his primary goal is to transition New York, and no doubt America, from rugged individualism to passive collectivism. In this instance, there is no choice but to fight vigorously, and with every tool at our disposal, against this malignancy that endeavors to plunge New York into the dystopian vision of American weakness.

It is estimated that throughout history, over 1.25 million people have died defending American values, including the notion of rugged individualism and pulling yourself up by the bootstraps. We hold sacred the right to build the type of life you envision for yourself and your family without fearing the long arm of the government stealing the fruits of your labor.

Zohran Mamdani threatens these cherished values at a foundational level.

Most importantly, we must uncover the reasons why the disproven, rejected and discredited philosophy of socialism/communism, which has destroyed so many lives throughout history, has taken root in America. This is a mission of utmost importance because if we wait and ignore the symptoms, the malignancy will spread and the patient will eventually become terminal.

To keep it simple. If Mamdani’s vision spreads, we lose America.