I worry greatly that the parasitic ideas that I've discussed for decades along with the fatal reflex of suicidal empathy will bring down the West (or at the very least render it unrecognizable within the foreseeable future). I see no evidence that people understand the existential threats facing our Western civilization. Temporal myopia stops most people from connecting the emerging dots in the not-too-distant future.
Here’s what I think will happen in NYC under Mahdami.
The free buses and government grocery stores won’t happen, they never do. They sound good during campaigns, but collapse under basic math. You can’t run a city on ideas that cost billions and produce no revenue.
The only way to make housing affordable is to build more housing. The free market lowers prices, not regulation. Every time politicians try to control rent or force affordability by decree, developers stop building and landlords stop maintaining. Supply dries up, the quality collapses, and the few properties that remain skyrocket in price.
Once landlords can’t make a profit, they sell, lose properties, or walk away. Eventually, the government takes over.
Taxes will rise to pay for the promises, and the middle class will be the ones shouldering the burden. The rich will relocate, the poor will depend on subsidies, and the productive class will be squeezed from both sides.
Thriving businesses are the foundation of any thriving city. When they leave, everything else follows, jobs, schools, grocery stores, stability. Chicago already proved this. Boeing, McDonald’s, Caterpillar, Citadel, nearly 70k jobs, all gone. Now they’re facing billion-dollar deficits, half empty schools and neighborhoods without grocery stores.
I saw someone who lived in a rent-controlled apartment in California put it perfectly, he said his landlord could no longer afford maintenance so the pool was filled with dirt, the floors had soft spots, and the foundation ended up cracking. That’s what overregulation does, it destroys quality.
People who voted for this will eventually feel the pain but they won’t blame the policies or the politicians, they’ll blame the rich for leaving.
This conversation is always difficult because most people simply don’t understand market dynamics or incentives. In a free society, people act in their own self-interest. If you remove profit and reward dependency, productivity dies and the city with it.
If you think things are expensive now, just wait until they’re “free.”
WHEN FEELINGS KILL COMMON SENSE
Being nice isn’t bad... until it breaks your country.
Some people care so much about everyone’s feelings, they forget about facts, safety, and their own neighbors.
This is called suicidal empathy. Basically, being so compassionate it turns self-destructive. Sounds wild, but it’s real.
Gad Saad says we’re overloaded with emotion, treating every stranger like family, even criminals or enemies, because it feels good.
But feelings aren’t policies, and this kind of kindness is backfiring hard.
Take U.S. borders: in 2023, a record 2.5 million illegal crossings swamped the system.
It’s not just overcrowding. Over 15,000 non-citizens were arrested for serious crimes in one year.
Fentanyl smuggling? Also up. And guess what? Those costs hit taxpayers: $150 billion a year, enough to help veterans or disaster victims.
But sure, let's keep pretending open borders are just "nice."
Then there's the “defund the police” mess. Meant to help communities, it led to fewer arrests and way more murders. A 70% jump in Minneapolis alone.
The people hurt most? The same communities it claimed to protect.
Bonus chaos: in the UK, people got arrested for tweets. That’s where feelings-over-facts leads.
DEI programs? Started with good intentions. Now they’re breaking schools and jobs.
A Forbes study said they mostly help rich elites, not everyday people. Harvard’s diversity policies even lowered team performance by 12%.
In companies, DEI training actually made bias worse. All because we’re scared to say, “Let’s hire the best person.”
It gets worse. All this empathy-for-everyone has made people stop trusting each other... down 20% since 2000.
This isn’t about being heartless. It’s about using your brain with your heart.
It's called “reasoned empathy,” where compassion meets common sense.
Help people, yes... but stop lighting your own house on fire to keep others warm.
Source: , , Gonsalves, G, Kiskin K, Heritage, RAND, NYP, ImagineAfter my parents fled the Islamic Regime in 1979, they found safe haven in Queens, New York.
That’s where I was born. In a tiny apartment in Queens.
My parents had nothing. Not money. Not connections. Not even the ability to speak English.
Unlike Zohran Mamdani, I didn’t go to a fancy private school. I went to a NYC public school that was so crowded there weren’t enough desks for each student. Half the time I sat on the radiator in the back of the room and took notes on my lap.
I rode the MTA bus home, while both my parents worked to put food on the table and rebuild their lives.
And they did rebuild. Because in America, and only in America, capitalism gave them a real chance to start again.
The people supporting Mamdani are just like him. A bunch of entitled rich kids who have no clue how lucky they are, and even less of a clue why they have been conditioned to hate America.
They don’t know what it’s like to buy shoes two sizes too big so you don’t outgrow them before the end of the school year.
To act as the translator for your parents at 6 years old.
To claw your way from having nothing to achieving something.
And today they celebrate, because they’re too dumb or radicalized or both to realize they’re falling for the same Islamist-Marxist lies that caused my parents to flee Iran in the first place.
All to destroy a city that was once a hopeful refuge for millions of people who just wanted a better life.
People like me and my family.
What a sad, sad day.
My heart is absolutely broken for NYC.
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