If you haven’t been to New York City before, you missed it. It’s not destroyed, it’s just a mess and not worth visiting. You still could – it’s a great place to take the family if you love the smell of fresh urine on hot concrete coupled with potent marijuana, because you smell that combination pretty much everywhere.
The city is dying, and we should let it. Progressives are all in favor of assisted suicide, we should join them in the case of New York and help the city kill itself. Only a complete embrace of socialist/fascist/communist policies (and there isn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the three) will ween those people off their addiction to seeking government to solve their problems/improve their lives. Let it die, and let them choke on whatever damage and harm to people it does along the way.
Some people can learn from history, others are too dumb to heed those lessons and avoid the pitfalls of the past. New York falls into the latter, so let them swallow the whole bottle of their own medicine. I can’t bring myself to care.
Republicans in Washington should do everything to make sure that all the socialist policies New York currently has, and the ones in waiting to be imposed, have the maximum impact on the people who voted for their worthless politicians.
That means maintaining the end of the tax deduction for state and local taxes (SALT) so high tax areas that elect Democrats who jack up their rates get zero relief from the federal government for their stupidity. Why should everyone else subsidize their folly? And why would they want it? They voted for people who jacked up their taxes, that must be what they wanted or else they wouldn’t have done it. Make them take that big dose of their own medicine.
Republicans should also attach all the strings they can to federal money related to immigration. Attempts have been shot down by the courts before, but every effort needs to be made to end federal money for welfare and food stamps to illegal aliens, then reduce the money to any state/city that refuses to confirm the citizenship status of enrollees.
Nothing for Medicaid for illegals, let the sanctuary cities and states pick up 100 percent of the tab for that. All they do is talk about how big of a boon to the economy illegal aliens are, let them spend some of that “windfall” on taking care of them all by themselves.
Choke these areas, starting with New York City, of all the federal funds possible related to their stance on immigration and other policy positions in conflict with federal law. You can’t punish the moron voters of New York for nominating an anti-American, anti-Semite piece of garbage to be the Democratic nominee for mayor – at least not directly, they’re free to be morons – but you can cut off as many of the federal relief programs and escape hatches that would decrease the impact of such a stupid, bigoted decision.
Look, Democrats are crap, they really are. But they are hardly as bad as they could be. As impossible as it seems, they can get much worse. Zohran Mamdani is Mao with a bigger smile. The murderous Mao was regularly seen with an ear-to-ear grin because the image overrides so much of what is being done in the minds of “followers.” Zohran has studied dictators, their rhetorical tricks and image manipulation, and he uses those tools to near perfection.
The one thing you have to remember about these people is they are evil, not stupid. It’s not like they believe they can make socialism/communism/fascism work, it’s that they don’t care because they want the policies implemented no matter how much harm they do. Equality to everyone suffers equally…except them. If you notice, totalitarians tend to be fat as their people starve – Mao, Stalin, Castro, Kim, Hitler all got fat while in power and their people went hungry. The policies progressives seek to impose are policies they, themselves, are largely exempt from.
Rich liberals don’t pay higher tax rates, they have “wealth” more than income. They don’t pay death taxes, their wealth is in tax-exempt trusts as farmers have to sell everything because their “net worth” on paper is millions thanks to land and equipment, but only have a net income of $50,000. They don’t have to wait to see a doctor or for an insurance company (or the government) to approve a medical procedure, they just open up their wallet.
So much of what leftist politicians seek to impose on everyone else are things that will never impact them directly. The best thing Republicans can do is to do everything on the federal level to make sure they aren’t exempt and the people who voted for them aren’t insulated from the effects of what they voted for. They want socialism, make them eat it in its purest form.
A big dose of their own medicine is exactly what the doctor ordered. If they want to force their prescriptions on everyone else, make them take it first. If Democrats in New York City are hell bent on destroying themselves, help them. It couldn’t happen to a nicer group of people.
Derek Hunter is the host of the Derek Hunter Show on WMAL in Washington, DC, and has a free daily podcast (subscribe!) and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.
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