“Everything that’s free is paid for by someone who works.”
Advocates of Communism, now starting to overtake big American cities, are either too stupid to realize this obvious point — or too rotten and lazy to care. Either way, mistakes of this magnitude are never innocent.
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Daniel Greenfield wrote an excellent article [Front Page Magazine 11/6/25].
New York City’s old ‘ethnic’ working class population is gone. Much of it fled the chaos and violence of the 1970s and 1980s. By the time Mayor Rudy Giuliani restored order by cracking down on crime, they didn’t come back. Instead they were replaced by college students, hipsters and third world immigrants who not only voted for Democrats, but for the far Left.
5 million residents were born outside New York City. Less than 4 million were born in the city.
While New Yorkers went for Cuomo, 50% to 38% for Mamdani, those who had lived in the city for 10 years or less went for Mamdani by 82% to 16%.
This reflects both external mass immigration but internal migration from other parts of the country. Another way to measure the foreign population in New York City is to look at the proportion of those to whom English is a second language. The number of non-English speakers has been steadily rising since 1990 and the number of English speakers declined from 63% to 52%.
It’s now almost even.
Much of New York City no longer even speaks English. That’s why Mamdani could campaign in Arabic.
In short: The people you think of as New Yorkers already left. Mamdani is just a scavenger or cockroach. This election didn’t kill New York City. What you think of as New York City from the 1940s and 50s, 80s or 90s — it was already dead.