The civil war between sane New Yorkers and the other kind has reached its next phase.
The victory of Zohran Mamdani in the city’s Democratic mayoral primary has some high-profile Democrats, like Sen. John Fetterman, expressing chagrin over the success of this openly commie slash-and-burn, soak-the-(white)-rich, pro-Hamas guy. Others, like former President Bill Clinton, who once posed as a moderate, are cheering him on.
Mamdani is also anti-policing. He has said: “We don’t need an investigation to know that the NYPD is racist, anti-queer & a major threat to public safety. What we need is to #DefundTheNYPD … NO to fake cuts — defund the police.”
Curtis Sliwa, founder of the Guardian Angels and former and current GOP nominee for NYC mayor, says that Mamdani “has a weird notion of how policing is, as if it should be people like Mahatma Gandhi walking around, you know, functioning as a social worker. That does not work.”
Some police officers say they’ll quit if someone so openly hostile to law and order — not to abuse of police power, but to reasonable policing when it’s obviously necessary — also wins the general election and becomes the next mayor.
Top brass fear an exodus.
But would only police officers quit? Everyone in NYC who prefers civilization to annihilation should then quit.
And it would be natural for many of the more successful New Yorkers to leave if Mamdani gets in on the strength of the NYC’s apparently huge and growing ressentiment vote and starts robbing and pillaging in earnest.
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While New York City might not, after all, elect Mr Mamdani in this upcoming election, still the trend is one of increasing left-wing madness, and the stage at which that trend will be reversed is far away.
Productive people cannot stop the decline of the city by staying and so, if they have the means, they should emigrate, even though that emigration will accelerate the decline.
When’s the last time NYC _didn’t_ elect a socialist mayor? The big difference between Mamdani and his predecessors seems to be that he says the quiet part out loud.
Where’s Kurt Russell, now that we need him?
NYC has ranked choice voting in its primary and that is what allows the radical elements to thrive. The more they try to explain RCV as an improvement, the less sense it makes. Absent RCV, Mamdani and the second place finisher would have a runoff. The primary used to be in September, when everyone was back from vacation. The June date limits the number of participants. Sane New Yorkers have my sympathy. Probably many would vacate the city if they could, but how many nominally ‘upper middle class’ residents can afford to just pack up and leave, especially if they own small businesses?
Maybe his citizenship will be revoked and he will be deported by November.
The DOJ is looking into his naturalization application as we speak.
Or maybe the repub will win. That would be something else indeed.