Is The City That Never Sleeps, Sleep-Walking Into A Coma?

“This is a date which will live in infamy,” President Franklin Roosevelt spoke to the nation and the world these words that will resound through history. What followed was a world war, and nations in conflict.

Throughout history, we can point at other dates that will live in infamy, and only recently have we encountered perhaps another such date. Understand, this is not to diminish here in this writing the enormity of a world war among nations. This is an effort, however, to make a correlation and what the repercussions can be when conventional standards are disturbed. There is the possibility that we may be looking at another, what could be, date that will live in infamy.

On Tuesday, June 24, 2025 the City of New York held the Democratic primary for mayor and elected an avowed Socialist with Communist tendencies. Meet Zohran Mamdani, a Ugandan immigrant, a privileged 33-year-old Muslim with a deplorable record of anti-Semitism and Israeli hatred. His history, which is scant, reveals he served three years as a Queens assemblyman, without any record of accomplishment while in that office. Mamdani was an unknown until recently, when he found his footing and method for gaining notoriety, social media directed at a specific demographic, the under-age-40 youth vote, of which he received 40%.

How, you might ask, was this possible in a city whose history dates back to the beginning of the nation, her first capital in fact, and that has never made any allowance for such a radical candidate? NYC today is a Democrat enclave, but the fact is that the Party is in disarray. When a young charismatic appears on the scene, even though inexperienced and making promises that cannot be kept, people tend to gravitate around, especially the young, and before you know it, things just happen.

There were nine Democrat candidates running for the office of mayor, including the former governor of New York who left office in disgrace. Each of these individuals is far left progressive, and even they are bothered by the thought of a Mayor Mamdani, and also the full record of Socialism’s failures. What danger does a Socialist with Communist tendencies present, especially to the financial capital of the world, and will the "City That Never Sleeps" fall into a coma? 

Some of Mamdani's campaign points:

> Free bus service 

> Suspend rent increases on rent-controlled public housing

> Introduce government-run grocery stores and supermarkets

> Tax the wealthy and taxpayer to pay for everything

> Defund the police or reduce any further new recruitment, replace with social advocates

> Globalize the intifada

> Fund gender transition surgery and puberty blockers for children

These goodies are nothing more than pie-in-the-sky promises. For any of them to see the light of day will require the governor and state legislature's approval. Mamdani’s message to the people centers on affordability. The lower and middle class will prosper; the city government will take care of it and will accomplish this with the help of the wealthy.

He has set his sights on large corporations and landlords, and once proposed a Marxist-style takeover of private enterprise by the government. Never mind the fact that the well-to-do have expressed their misgivings and have threatened to leave the city, as many have already. From 2020 through 2024, over 500,000 residents have moved out. Is Mamdani a clear and present danger? Will June 24, 2025, be another date that will live in infamy? Most think so. 

President Trump has decried the possibility of a Mayor Mamdani, and has referred to him as a communist. During a cabinet meeting, the president commented when asked about the mayor’s race in NYC, "We're not going to have - if a communist gets elected to run New York, it can never be the same. But we have tremendous power at the White House to run places when we have to."

The people, young and old, must come to their senses and realize the fate of New York City, perhaps even the nation, is in their hands.