Mamdani's Disastrous Block Party Is a Glimpse Into NYC's Socialist Future

Zohran Mamdani is now the Mayor of New York, and if his inaugural speech and day-one actions are any indication, the Big Apple is in for a long and hard four years.

Mamdani began his tenure by rolling back the sweeping antisemitism protections meant to shield the city's Jews from attacks and prohibit city officials from boycotting Israel. This is what "globalize the intifada" looks like in Mamdani's "city of international law," where Jews are to blame for the pro-Palestine mobs who harrass them outside of synagogues.

And it's a good thing Mamdani isn't a Republican, because he gave the same "Nazi salute" that landed Elon Musk in hot water just last year.

But there's a line in his speech that I want to focus on, one our Matt Vespa called the "creepiest" of Mamdani's address.

“We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism," Mamdani said. Countless conservatives pointed out that the "warmth of collectivism" always comes at the barrel of a gun and with a body count.

According to the New York Post, Mamandi — who was begging for work-class voters to donate to his inaugural and transition campaigns — had 10,000 supporters outside City Hall. One of them, 30-year-old Danny Mahabir, told The Post, "It’s definitely not a block party" Mahabir was expecting "a mix of food and music at the New Year’s Day festivities."

That's adorable, Danny, that you thought food and entertainment were something for the hoi polloi to enjoy at a socialist event. Those things are reserved for the socialists like Mamdani and his friends get to enjoy. The common man gets breadlines.

If he's lucky.

Starvation is rampant in socialist nations and their communist counterparts. That's by design. It keeps the people week and dependent on the socialist government. There is no "sharing the means of production" in socialist nations. There's the rich socialist ruling class and the impoverished general population.

And that's always, invariably, how socialism plays out. The socialists always live in the lap of luxury while the average Joe barely scrapes by in substandard "government housing," subsisting on the food rations the government decides to bestow on the population.

Mamdani's wife, Rama Duwaji, even showed up at the event wearing $630 designer boots. Because she deserves them. Just as Bernie Sanders, a man so lazy his fellow socialists kicked him out of a commune, gets to own three houses. He deserves that, too.

You, comrade, do not.

I know people who are avowed socialists. They genuinely believe that under a socialist scheme, everything from housing to food will be free, and that they won't have to waste their time doing pesky things like working for a living. One person believes he'll get to be a Twitch streamer if we just elect guys like Mamdani and Sanders to the White House and Congress.

Yeah, I laughed at that, too.

The harsh reality is this: cushy jobs as artists, poets, teachers, and social media influencers are reserved for the friends and allies of the socialists. The rest of us? We're off to a government-run factory or farm, where we might get one day a week off if we meet our production quotas.

It is not a utopia. It is not a place where people thrive. Sure, everyone is equal: equally poor and starving, that is.

So the fact that there was no food, no bathrooms, and no fun at Mamdani's inaugural event is exactly what socialism is: promises that always come up empty for the people who vote in the socialists.

Enjoy the next four years, NYC. You are about to get the government you voted for, good and hard.

Editor’s Note: Zohran Mamdani, an avowed Democratic Socialist, is now the mayor of New York City.

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