When LA fell people yawned, What about NY?

 by Craig Willms

When LA fell people yawned, no one seemed to care. NYC is on the edge; will people shrug and say nothing to see here? LA was the center of glitz and glamor and Hollywood movies. Today they hardly even make movies in LA anymore and the city is teeming with the homeless, drugs and no-go areas. Up the coast, San Francisco, Portland and Seattle are rotting from the head down. Again, no one seems to care. Anyone who actually did care grew frustrated and moved away. California has lost a lot of people and a lot of businesses. No one calls it the Golden State anymore.

New York City is another thing completely. America's largest city is the very heart of capitalism. It's not make-believe, it's not Hollywoodland, it doesn't get any more real than NYC. In California the elites and the favored live in pretty nice conditions, same for New York. The hoi polloi struggle to stay safe in their homes. There comes a tipping point where no amount of physical security, CCTV and private security, is enough. A significant part California is at or near the tipping point, New York has some time. Tick tock tick tock.

Mamdani's election as mayor of New York City ensures that more of what LA has, homeless, drugs and no-go zones will dominate the city of Wall Street. It's already happened to London, the other heartbeat of capitalism. London is not what it once was. Brits don't even feel at home in London anymore. 

California is well known for its hippies and flakes in and out of government. By contrast New York is serious business. You don't see faddish trends come out of the Big Apple, except maybe that deal where young black men wear their pants halfway down their ass. 

At this time, it would seem pretty unfair to declare Mamdani a failure, a pretender. Maybe, maybe not. If his aim is to fleece New York and make this gig his steppingstone to greater wealth and influence, then he may indeed become a success. If we see things from the vantage of the average NYC resident, then it's not only a forgone conclusion it's a guarantee. Which one? Both!

Many of the talking heads on the right are blaming Mamdani on the ill-educated youth. This is not untrue; however, the world just can't seem to end its obsession with Marx and his ism. Never has there been a fantasy of a proper goon that has captured the disaffected like Marx has. While it's clear that the 'powers that be' in the elite class have stacked the deck in nearly every aspect of life people can't seem to understand Marxism is not any kind of answer. So, we get smarmy Mamdani's and brain-dead AOC's and nasty Ilhan Omar's, none of whom are clever or exceptional in any way to represent the urban youth. It's all a mystery to me.

Young men who are frightened to death of girls are beginning to ignore the socialist skirts they would have normally chased to see the dawning recognition that liberalism, Marxism and the Democratic Party are not for them. The ones who put down the video game controller long enough are starting to swing rightward. It isn't enough to overcome the leftists in the urban core, but they were enough to help Trump take the White House. Not that Trump is a nirvana or anything, but he may just be more than the speed bump George W. Bush was. In the first ten months of Trump's 2nd term, he has seemed to target the entrenched leftist bureaucracy, something no one has ever done before. Mamdani is a reaction to Trump's moves.

God, we pray for New York City. No one wants to see New York fall into the dystopian hellscape that parts of LA are, but we need for Mamdani and his "Democratic Socialism" to fail spectacularly. I don't see that happening without NYC falling apart. Sorry New York - but you voted for him.