
In the Soviet Union, the most common type of housing was the communal apartment, where multiple families shared common areas of a single, small apartment.
In America, even among the working or welfare poor, this seems unthinkable.
Yet as New York City, under its forthcoming Communist mayor, plans to freeze all rents, you can expect something similar. When government outlaws the cost of rental housing set by even a semi-free market, you artificially inflate demand relative to supply. Price controls create shortages: EVERY SINGLE TIME. And the inherent inefficiency of Communism, combined with outlawed profit, destroys the incentive of builders to build.
New York City will become a 21st Century version of Soviet Russia. Trump will get the blame. And after he’s gone, capitalism will get the blame. There will be no more capitalism on earth, unless red states and cities move decisively capitalist and libertarian. Then the new Cold War will be between the Free States of America–and the Woke States.
“We will eventually be 2 separate countries….how can it be otherwise?” from an astute observer on my Facebook thread.
I agree. Leftists have radicalized and will NEVER back down. If the same (about never backing down) can be said of the MAGA/pro-liberty/pro-Constitution side, then how can the United States remain a republic? Voters in New York City vs. rural Texas/Florida do not inhabit anything like the same universe, let alone the same country. The United States of America? It’s increasingly an abstraction; a fantasy.
Most of California overtly eschews the Constitution daily. Its governors and mayors deliberately let violent criminals run freely and wildfires burn down cities. And now New York City prepares for bread lines, Soviet-style rental rules (prepare for 20 in a small apartment), government genital mutilation of children, and Sharia Law.
It’s not sustainable. Civil war, national divorce or outright submission to rabid totalitarianism. It’s not a pretty choice. But on our present, unsustainable and I now believe irreversible course — it’s the choice you and your children and grandchildren have.
Remember when leftists at least claimed to be for the individual rights of women? Now leftists totally in charge of the U.K. unconditionally import Muslims, and Muslims do not believe in the rights of women. It’s an interesting clash that leftist media, politicians and scholars will never, ever acknowledge. But it’s still the reality. Coming in 2026: New York City’s new Muslim Marxist mayor will of course let his religion have an unfettered run over infidel citizens, particularly as he dismantles and defunds the NYPD. What happens when this religious totalitarianism clashes with the LGBTQ population of New York City?
It’s difficult to fathom and process the blinding, arrogant stupidity and insanity of our times.
Even Ayn Rand and George Orwell never predicted it would get this bad. But it has. There is still a lot great about America. But there is also a bottomless pit of ignorance and stupidity that’s beyond repair. New York and the rest of blue America are like a falling plane about to crash into the ground. It’s too late for blue cities.