Blog #191 America Got Its Diagnosis: Cancer in NYC
America Got Its Diagnosis…Cancer
A Flash Assessment of NYC Election by John Shoemaker, November, 2025
Mamdani won. America lost.
It is tantamount to learning that one has cancer. The question is how to prevent it from metastasizing, which threatens life as we know it.
Am I exaggerating? The Socialist Party leaders don’t think so. AOC and Bernie Sanders proclaim that the Democratic Party is now the Socialist Party.
What started this incredible culture shock? Well, during the Obama and especially the Biden years of Open Borders, we have allowed an unvetted flood of illegal aliens to scatter across our Blue Sanctuaries. We are now suffering the burden of over 25 million illegals; too many are not able to contribute and must rely on welfare/government support. Worse, many cannot speak English well or at all, possessing few skills and limited, if any, education.
Consider Mamdani’s agenda: free buses, free childcare, rent control, free housing, food, legal aid for illegals, government-owned grocery stores, much higher minimum wages, higher taxes especially for “white” neighborhoods, rich people, and corporations, legalized prostitution, and he intends to close some jails. Moreover, he is against charter schools, while his budget for public education will be a problem with the increased number of children of illegal aliens.
Interestingly, the center of free-market capitalism in the World is New York City. Yet we now have a mayor-elect who believes in socialism and Islamism.
Will the real Zohran Mamdani stand up!
His speech after winning was not a caring, compassionate, or smiling outreach for community support. Instead, it showed a level of loud, aggressive, fist-pounding rage against those who are against him – especially the President of the U.S. He is packing his administration with radicals. Mamdani is clearly a new, potentially dangerous power broker who can easily shift from a caring personality to a dictator, a transformation that typically occurs in a socialist government. This is a historical fact.
All of this ignores his statements about NYC’s 9/11attack by Muslims, the story of his Aunt (all a lie), his father‘s comments about his son not being a US citizen, and Sharia Law, Islamophobia, Anti-Semitism, Hamas, Israel, and especially his rage about Trump.
He is anti-American, anti-capitalism, anti-ICE, and anti-police. He will defund the police in favor of social workers and liberal attitudes by law enforcement that treat criminals as victims. Moreover, he shed the conciliatory persona and has used his lies and performative acts to create a false impression that will now be revealed in all its ugliness.
Also, Mamdani is funded by ‘dark money’, Soros and ultra-liberal billionaires and groups, along with external sources from Islamic organizations to Islamic countries, like Qatar and Iran. None of this bodes well for America. His effort to “tax the rich” is ludicrous since 48% of NYC’s tax income comes from the top 1% of income earners. It is obvious that high earners will leave NYC and the investment capital of the World will split with movements to the States of Florida, Texas, and Tennesee.
My concern is now that cancer has been identified, will it grow and metastasize? The hard fact is that this test will last four years. The “free bait” is too enticing for those who stand to benefit the most. Who benefits in NYC? Illegals, new immigrants, Muslims, welfare recipients, and the homeless, the youth voters under the age of 30, blacks, women of all races, primarily single, white women, and college students.
It is nothing more than the classic case that socialists need to take money away from taxpayers to give away things free to create the nanny state. They don’t say it, but the impression is that all we have to do is print more money.
Who voted against it? White men, Hispanics, and some Asians.
Socialism, Marxism, and Communism are close relatives with ideologies that typically do not support belief in God, or religious worship, families, private ownership of anything, and demand government control of all businesses. In summary, sooner or later, the State will control everything and will retain full power over society. Nazi is an acronym for National Socialism, and Hitler began as a socialist. The value of life is of little consequence. History shows the hundreds of millions killed by these societies. Even today, Islamism is responsible for the ongoing death of thousands, especially of other religions or those who will not convert to Islam, which is both religion and governance with Sharia Law.
In a worst-case scenario, other Blue Sanctuary Cities/States may adopt socialism — such as Chicago, Philadelphia, Boston, Dearborn, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, L.A. — and it will be enjoyed in the very short term until money runs out. Then they will demand money from the Federal Government, which will have to take money from the Red (Conservative) States that will continue to do well economically with their focus on free-market capitalism.
This will not go well.
Remember, history has lots of lessons, and this quote from Margaret Thatcher,
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.”
When socialists focus on social giveaways, what do you think will happen to things that are not so obvious to the eye? I mean, capital items like infrastructure, sewers, utilities, buildings, roads, bridges, city vehicles, subway maintenance and repair, and so much more.
As new socialist cities start drowning in debt and seeking funding from the Federal Government, it will also be apparent that their future for economic improvement will not be promising. This will scare the Red States, and they will draw a line.
Socialism cannot live with Capitalism in a free society. The division will widen, and conflict is inevitable. Is Civil War possible? Maybe as the talk gets louder. But if there is a continuing commitment to honor/uphold the U.S. Constitution, we will work through it. However, it will not be easy, and the country that has created the most wealth in human history will face very tough times.
We are becoming a spoiled, intolerant, naïve, and privileged collection of tribes.
The problem is that we now have enough people who don’t want to wait. They want the immediate gratification of socialism without the commitment to contribute. Meritocracy will be challenged. Victimhood will reign.
What should Trump do?
The fact remains that we must somehow strengthen our commitment to both the Constitution and a Meritocracy. President Trump must show dramatic economic progress in the coming months. Most Americans do not understand his contributions on both tactical and strategic levels.
Americans must understand the fact that Trump has negotiated over $16 Trillion in business investment by other countries for the U.S. To the socialists, that is nice, but it does not affect them immediately. It takes 1-2 years to build, bring into operation, and staff the plants. It is about reshoring our entire manufacturing industry. At the same time, Trump’s tariffs must not be revoked by SCOTUS to ensure fair and balanced international trade and the contribution to our national debt ($500 Billion after nine months of tariffs while supporting onshoring by all businesses). He also uses tariffs to stop wars. Trump must continue the deregulation efforts to ensure a massive expansion of our electrical grid and manufacturing base.
Trump must get the Republicans to protect the integrity of votes with Voter ID. The Democrats and Socialists will work hard to sabotage efforts to enforce Voter ID as they want all the illegals to vote Democrat as has happened in NYC. This will enable efforts to create a ONE-PARTY AUTOCRACY controlled by Democrats/Socialists State-by-State.
Regarding illegals, he must rid the country of the criminal element and stop the drug smuggling from South America. I would hope he can find a way to allow contributory illegals (those who work and especially those with families) to get work visas and stay in the U.S., and to end the social upheaval due to deportations. Lastly, although there is a long list of other actions Trump is doing, we need interest rates to come down by the Federal Reserve.
In essence, Trump’s economic plan is critical to stop the spread of cancer.
For the sake of America’s future, capitalism must prove again it is the best known approach for wealth creation when combined with a Republic supported by a Constitution with Judeo-Christian laws.
America believes “In God, We Trust.”