The Mamdani election shows how divided America is. Yes, Manhattan is deeply blue. But not terribly long ago Giuliani was their mayor. And Democrats like Andrew Cuomo seem like Ronald Reagan compared to what’s coming. But America is hopelessly divided. Not by race so much as by where you live — urban versus rural. And suburban in between.
I recall reading Thomas Jefferson’s letters, and how one of his biggest concerns for the survival of our republic involved the development of cities over rural life. Jefferson felt that cities would foster a support for tyranny while the rural life fostered the self-accountability and self-reliance a free country requires. Clearly, he was on to something.
The catastrophic election of not just a Communist but an open terrorist to such a high position reinforces my view that the ruptures in America cannot be repaired. At a minimum, even without any civil war, our states will have to split up. You cannot reconcile Mamdani and the Bill of Rights. And lovers of liberty and civilization cannot and will never coexist with the ignorant fools who voted for him, as well as the evil totalitarians who funded him.
People who actually vote FOR Communism because they want others to produce for them DESERVE the pain they encounter.
Nobody in New York who voted for Mamdani should be permitted to move to a state that still upholds individual rights in our Constitution.
And this isn’t tyranny. The people who decided to impose tyranny on themselves and others in their own city have lost their right to live among civilized, freedom-loving people in Florida, Texas or similar places.
Mamdani voters: You deserve what you’re getting. Maybe DeSantis isn’t joking when he talks about building a wall to keep leftist New Yorkers from poisoning Florida by moving there.
These leftists never learn anything, and they ruined Arizona and Colorado already.
“Democratic” in its original meaning [refers to] unlimited majority rule . . . a social system in which one’s work, one’s property, one’s mind, and one’s life are at the mercy of any gang that may muster the vote of a majority at any moment for any purpose.
… If we discard morality and substitute for it the Collectivist doctrine of unlimited majority rule, if we accept the idea that a majority may do anything it pleases, and that anything done by a majority is right because it’s done by a majority (this being the only standard of right and wrong)—how are men to apply this in practice to their actual lives? Who is the majority? In relation to each particular man, all other men are potential members of that majority which may destroy him at its pleasure at any moment. Then each man and all men become enemies; each has to fear and suspect all; each must try to rob and murder first, before he is robbed and murdered.
— Ayn Rand
The American system is not a democracy. It is a constitutional republic. A democracy, if you attach meaning to terms, is a system of unlimited majority rule; the classic example is ancient Athens. And the symbol of it is the fate of Socrates, who was put to death legally, because the majority didn’t like what he was saying, although he had initiated no force and had violated no one’s rights.
Democracy, in short, is a form of collectivism, which denies individual rights: the majority can do whatever it wants with no restrictions. In principle, the democratic government is all-powerful. Democracy is a totalitarian manifestation; it is not a form of freedom . . . .
The American system is a constitutionally limited republic, restricted to the protection of individual rights. In such a system, majority rule is applicable only to lesser details, such as the selection of certain personnel. But the majority has no say over the basic principles governing the government. It has no power to ask for or gain the infringement of individual rights.
— philosopher Leonard Peikoff
“Affordability.” Even Republicans now say that’s why Mamdani won.
Good grief. NOBODY or NOTHING can achieve affordabilty except for a free market. A free market creates the incentive to increase supply for more profits. The increased supply to meet demand drives down prices. No, it does not always happen right away. No, it does not absolutely always happen. But it almost always happens with a free market. And it never, ever has happened under a government takeover such as socialism. Socialism removes profit and destroys supply. Everything is “free” but nothing is available.
The government, by making everything free, will create huge demand without anyone willing (since there’s no profit incentive) nor anyone able (since there’s no capital) to produce the goods and services everyone now wants for free. Mamdani’s Communism was tried in Maoist China, Soviet Russia, Cuba, Venezuela and Argentina. All it got was impoverishment and starvation.
What the hell is wrong with you leftists? How profoundly ignorant can you be?!