The City That Forgot It Was Free

Jim Chimirie

November 5, 2025

There's a sickness in New York's soul.

The city that once rose from the dust of 9/11 has elected a man who excuses the very slogans that glorify its killers. Zohran Mamdani's victory isn't democracy at work; it's decadence in plain sight – a civilisation so numbed by guilt that it now mistakes its enemies for reformers.

He calls himself a socialist, but his creed runs deeper than class. It's a blend of Marx and Muhammad – economic envy fused with moral resentment, sold under the banner of "justice." His programme sounds generous: free buses, free childcare, city-run supermarkets, rent freezes, and higher taxes for "the rich." But behind each promise lies control.

Free buses mean surveillance – every journey logged, every citizen tracked. Free childcare means state indoctrination from infancy. City-run supermarkets mean the death of small business and the birth of rationed dependency.

Rent freezes sound merciful until the landlords flee, housing collapses, and the state becomes the only owner left. And "taxing the rich" isn't about fairness; it's about punishing success until ambition itself is exiled. Every socialist society begins with equality and ends with scarcity. Mamdani's will be no different.

That alone would be ruin enough. But his silence on antisemitism is the greater poison. When asked to condemn the phrase "globalise the intifada" – a slogan soaked in Jewish blood – he refused. And now he governs the city with the largest Jewish population outside Israel. This is not inclusion; it's betrayal. The very people who rebuilt New York from rubble are now ruled by a man who flirts with those who cheered its fall.

This is what happens when progressivism turns suicidal. The modern Left has forged a marriage between Islamists and socialists – bound not by faith or economics but by shared resentment of the West. The jihadist blames it for his humiliation; the Marxist blames it for his envy. Together they've found a common purpose: to dismantle the civilisation that made their freedom possible.

New York has just handed them the keys to the city.

The pattern is global. London, Paris, Toronto – the same alliance rising under new names. They promise compassion, deliver chaos; preach tolerance, protect the intolerant. It's not reform; it's infiltration. And it always ends the same way: in moral collapse, economic ruin, and cultural fear.

The price will not be measured in money. It will be measured in silence – the journalist who won't speak, the Jew who won't walk alone, the citizen who won't question the lie. That's how civilisations die: not with explosions, but with applause for the man who excuses them.

New York has forgotten what freedom costs. The towers that once stood for courage now cast no shadow over its conscience. Mamdani's victory is more than an election. It's a turning point – proof that a civilisation can fall without a shot fired.

The city that once stood tallest has fallen again, this time by choice.

© Jim Chimirie 2025

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One thing worth pointing out is that some 2 million people voted for Mamdani in this election - out of approximately 5-6 million eligible voters.

In other words, he is a minority-elected Mayor. This should ring bells for the UK and the General Election on 2024; the current labour government, led by Kier Starmer, is also a minority government, despite its majority of MPs in the House of Commons.

Why? Too many people did not vote. Just as in New York in 2025. The equation is a very simple one; if you don't vote you get a government, or a Mayor, that the majority don't want.

Not hard to work out, is it.

Kevan James

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