Mamdani\u2019s agenda of rent freezes, city-run non-profit grocery stores, more taxes on the rich, free subways, reduced police presence, and the rest of his promised handouts to the unproductive brings the redistributive character of US democracy to the breaking point at which the productive leave a city where public safety is declining along with the rewards to work and responsible behavior.<\/p>\n
Will we see \u201cEscape from New York\u201d or on the other hand, perhaps Mamdani is just a political opportunist riding the rise of the woke era to personal riches from the kickbacks from the New York building trades\u2019 profits from building his affordable public housing to fill the role of private-supplied housing blocked by Mamdani\u2019s rent controls.<\/p>\n
America\u2019s founding fathers were aware of the dangers of faction that democracy brings, and they were aware of the tendency of mobs to seize property and of the tendency of females to make emotive instead of rational decisions. \u00a0To hinder and to delay the impact of these destabilizing tendencies, the founding fathers restricted democracy to the judgment of male property owners.<\/p>\n
As years passed the protective shields that made democracy functional were removed. \u00a0The appointment of US senators by state legislators to insure that the senators represented their states and not the interests of national lobbies that provide campaign funds was removed, and the Senate, like the House, became subject to demagogic elections often determined by slander, fraud, and vote-buying. \u00a0Weak men gave in and bestowed the vote on women. \u00a0It made little difference for a long time, because men still predominated in societal institutions. \u00a0But as Helen Andrews reports, in the US all societal institutions have now been feminized.\u00a0https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2025\/11\/05\/societal-death-by-feminization\/<\/a><\/p>\n The goal of excluding \u201ctoxic males\u201d from societal decision-making has largely succeeded. \u00a0The replacement of men by women has dramatically reduced the birth rate in all Western societies. As women choose career over motherhood, calls intensify for more non-white immigration to fill the gap from the declining white birth rate. \u00a0If this trend continues, white ethnicities will disappear, as Jean Raspail predicted they would. \u00a0It seems that my generation and perhaps the one that followed are the last to experience life in the context of Western civilization.<\/p>\n Over the course of my life I have watched the decline in the legal protections of defendants, and I have watched the rise of status-based privileges push aside equality under law. \u00a0See, for example, my books,\u00a0The Tyranny of Good Intentions<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0The New Color Line<\/em>. \u00a0These books had enthusiastic reviews from the right people and places, but failed to slow down, much less halt, the collapse of American society into disunity and status-based law.<\/p>\n New York, once the financial capital of the world, has fallen, according to the narrative, to the communist agenda of an immigrant-invader from Kampala, Uganda. \u00a0But perhaps that is only Mamdani\u2019s pose assumed in our woke era to gain \u00a0access to wealth that comes from the political award of contracts. \u00a0Regardless, the electorate\u2019s choice of Mamdani shows a complete change in outlook and a Democrat Party that has moved outside the American tradition.<\/p>\n I remember when the Democrats\u2019 political constituency consisted of the poor and the working class, now disparaged as \u201cthe Trump deplorables.\u201d \u00a0Today the Democrats\u2019 political constituency is college-educated women and weak men who have accepted their subordination in the interest of a career. \u00a0Whereas once Democrats focused on confiscating income and wealth from the successful (who were referred to as \u201cfortunate\u201d) and redistributing it to the unsuccessful (called \u201cless fortunate\u201d), they now confiscate the earnings and wealth of citizens to support immigrant-invaders. \u00a0 This and other such word tricks pushed the questions of merit and citizenship out of the picture. \u00a0For women the issue was one of the caring against the hard-hearted.\u00a0https:\/\/www.paulcraigroberts.org\/2025\/11\/05\/societal-death-by-feminization\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n Today Democrat political constituencies are focused on redistributing the incomes of American citizens to illegal aliens. \u00a0Not only do Americans who support themselves also support 42 million Americans who do not or who are gaming the system, they also support the 14 million immigrant-invaders that the Obama and Biden regimes policy of open borders imported into America.<\/p>\n While these devastating trends were developing, Wall Street and corporate executives exported American manufacturing jobs to Asia and Mexico, thereby dismantling the ladders of upward mobility that had made the US an opportunity society. \u00a0Today the focus of the Democrat Party is on opportunity for immigrant-invaders. \u00a0Democrats fight tooth and nail to prevent the federal government from deporting illegals. \u00a0Indeed, Democrats want illegals to have voting rights, and Democrat judges have ruled that proof of citizenship is unnecessary in order to vote. \u00a0Essentially, Democrats have no conception of the United States as a nation. \u00a0Indeed, they are hostile to those who think that citizenship and the US Constitution have meaning, dismissing both as tools of white supremacists.<\/p>\n Where liberals, conservatives, libertarians, and leftists went horribly wrong was in assuming that government was an independent institution. \u00a0The liberal-left imagined government as a moral institution that redistributed ill-gotten wealth from those who stole it to the deserving poor from whom it was stolen. \u00a0The conservative-libertarian contingent saw government as a threat to private property, merit, and individual freedom. \u00a0No one saw if for what it is: \u00a0an instrument for political and material interests to use to further their agendas and their fortunes.<\/p>\n The \u201cpublic interest\u201d is a false narrative. \u00a0No one serves any such interest. \u00a0Government is a privatized institution that serves private interests. \u00a0It is fought over because it can bestow on favored factions the incomes of others. \u00a0The Party in control gets to hand out the money. \u00a0That is the only important issue.<\/p>\n Today in America the welfare class supported by the work force is 25% of the size of the work force. If the Democrats win the battle over illegals, and Obama and Biden\u2019s 14 million illegals are added to the 42 million welfare class, those dependent on the incomes of the work force rise to one-third the size of the work force.<\/p>\n With the advent of AI and robotics, the outlook for working Americans seems bleak. \u00a0If the unemployment from AI predicted by experts is accurate, most of the US work force will be without jobs. \u00a0Who then supports the welfare class enlarged by illegal immigration?<\/p>\n Elon Musk said that the advent of AI brings with it communism as the earnings of AI will have to be redistributed to the population in order that people will have the money to sustain their lives by purchasing the products of AI produced goods and services.<\/p>\n What we seem to be facing is a social revolution brought by technology. \u00a0There is very little awareness and discussion of this massive challenge to human society. \u00a0If it comes upon unprepared populations, the result will be chaotic, especially in the Western World where white ethnicities are demonized as racists and exploiters of people of color. \u00a0The white populations will be the first to be exterminated in order to reduce the claim on resources.<\/p>\n In the Democrat mind, freedom today means the suppression of freedom. \u00a0Freedom of speech is racist and hurtful. Freedom of protest and association is a plot for insurrection if it is done by aversive racists. \u00a0Family values are suppressive of women. \u00a0Citizenship is non-inclusive. \u00a0A common language, mores, and history are suppressive of multiculturalism and diversity. \u00a0Nothing that once defined an American is acceptable in the era of wokeness.<\/p>\n For all practical purposes, the USA is being erased.<\/p>\n The New York City Mayor\u2019s constituency:<\/p>\n
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