Middle-class Democrats are slowly grasping--way too slowly--that they have created a monster that will eventually eat them up.
That monster runs on two legs: an education system that churns out miseducated radicals and an immigration system that imports uneducated third-world radicals.
This to me is the difference between a political party and a cult. pic.twitter.com/vcyFtoY9Bl
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) June 25, 2025
Loosely speaking, there are two Democratic parties now: a young, college-educated group of privileged radicals who have been indoctrinated to believe in socialism, and an older cohort who believe that the role of government is to smooth the rough road of life without killing the goose that lays the golden eggs.
Mamdani's win is a political earthquake that should have the Democratic establishment nationally running scared.
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) June 25, 2025
It comes as 62% of Dems are fed up with their party leaders & want them replaced.
Also, a LOT more Democrats are liberal (55%) than once were (25% in 1994). pic.twitter.com/hMj4z28VVD
AOC, Mamdani, and the rising influence of the Democratic Socialists of America, who are taking over the Democratic Party, are the inevitable winners of the competition between the two groups, in no small part due to demographics. Older Democrats grew up on Schoolhouse Rock and believe that what distinguishes Democrats from Republicans is their greater compassion for the working class and downtrodden. Younger, college-educated Democrats grew up in Randi Weingarten's socialist/activist schools being indoctrinated that America is fundamentally evil and must be "decolonized" and embrace "queer" culture.
VP JD Vance congratulates Zohran Mamdani as "the new leader of the Democratic Party" on Bluesky. pic.twitter.com/olmtcoi9Oq
— Leftism (@LeftismForU) June 25, 2025
The older Democrats believed that sending their kids to college and giving them an education superior to their own was the key to social mobility; in reality, it was the key to turning them into socialists. The old Democrats thought they were teaching compassion to their young--expand the pie, take care of the inevitable losers in society, and make a more perfect union. What they created with their incessant drive to expand "education" was a privileged, indoctrinated, wealthy class of dissatisfied activists who are fundamentally hostile to American society.
Cynthia Nixon says she’s “excited to vote” for Socialist NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) June 24, 2025
“We have a guy who will stand up to Trump.” pic.twitter.com/kceHBXZ5rf
Mamdani is the candidate of the lesbian actresses with Queer kids, not the plumber struggling to get by in a city that disdains them and taxes them into penury. They just want a city that is safe and works. She wants "social justice." The influx of illegal migrants is the perfect cause to rally around. Who, aside from "Queers," is more in need of the ministrations of the virtuous? Think of the opportunities for imposing "justice" and destroying capitalism and the bourgeoisie.
Cynthia Nixon says she’s “excited to vote” for Socialist NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani.
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) June 24, 2025
“We have a guy who will stand up to Trump.” pic.twitter.com/kceHBXZ5rf
The irony is that the one group most hostile to the new class of Democrats is the people who are supposed to be their beneficiaries--the working-class who want to climb their way up the ladder--many of whom are legal immigrants and their children. They came here not to be parasites killing off the host to live off the corpse, but to enjoy the American Dream. That is one of the distinguishing characteristics of recent migrants and those who came when immigration was more of less disconnected from the welfare state.
Don’t blame NYC blacks or Hispanics for Mamdani.
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) June 25, 2025
They voted against him.
Whites and “Asians” did this. pic.twitter.com/HEl3KPc8jP
Mamdani's voting base was Muslims and wealthier New Yorkers who didn't get where they are by working for it. The intellectual class, the 6-figure college-educated, and the radical slackers who have enough not to worry about the government failing at its basic tasks. Mamdani's coalition most emphatically did not include the working class or the high school-educated.
“Taxation isn’t theft. Capitalism is.”
— Geiger Capital (@Geiger_Capital) June 24, 2025
Zohran Mamdani majored in ‘African Studies’ pic.twitter.com/dgbHMKKhNS
Mamdani is the perfect leader of his coalition. His father is a professor, his mother a film producer, and he went to the tony Maine college Bowdoin. He aspired to be a rapper with his mother's help before going into politics, celebrating--I kid you not--Hamas. He hangs out with people who think America deserved 9/11, and he campaigned to turn New York into a more Muslim city. He thinks Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is a political goddess. Wu, you may recall, works assiduously to keep illegal alien sexual predators outside the grasp of ICE.
People look at Mamdani’s coalition and dispute this, but when you butcher the city’s middle class and replace them and their moderating influence with politically inert foreigners, of course you get wild swings between incumbent worship and educated-class ideological fantasies. https://t.co/J2yXTFmhl8
— The End Times (@TheAgeofShoddy) June 25, 2025
Old-line Democrats despise the Republican Party, but some are already reconciled to the fact that they may be forced to become Republicans, just as many in the working class have.
🚨NEW: Bill Maher suggests Dems getting so crazy he may end up voting Republican soon🚨
— Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 (@JasonJournoDC) June 22, 2025
"I never was a Democrat to begin with. I always, like, caucus with the Democrats and I generally vote for them — I think always vote for them."
"But I always look at it and, like, no, I'm… pic.twitter.com/epslBFbIno
"I never was a Democrat to begin with. I always, like, caucus with the Democrats and I generally vote for them — I think always vote for them."
"But I always look at it and, like, no, I'm gonna actually make up my mind. They just always are less scary and insane than the Republicans."
"But I wait for the day when it evens out. We're approaching that — because they have gotten crazier."
The essence of the modern Democrat is the indifference to results; virtue is the standard by which they judge a politician, not the results they actually produce. It is the simulation of compassion and not whether it improves lives that matters to them. Abstract ideas, not concrete results, are the things by which one is judged. Virtue signaling, not real virtue.
Schumer on Mamdani pic.twitter.com/qWWhCMaUH6
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) June 25, 2025
So far, they are winning in the Democratic primaries and in deep-blue cities like Boston, New York, Chicago, San Francisco, and Portland by creating a coalition between the laptop class and those who want free stuff--the Hugo Chavez coalition. Whether this coalition can win general elections will depend mainly on whether the results drive enough middle-class people to defect, or whether those people give up and leave.
Ed's earlier post on Wall Street types giving up on New York shows that people who can easily afford to move likely will, but it is harder for the working class. As they become a rump faction of the Democratic Party, they will face a choice--defect from Democrats now, or become victims soon enough.
It's hard to say what they will choose in New York City. Detroit chose badly for decades. San Francisco and Boston have chosen very badly. LA? They elected a communist, and the city literally burned. Portland? I mean, come on.
New York could face that same fate, and if it does, it will fail as Chicago has. But cities like Chicago and New York can take a very long time to collapse because they are so wealthy. The result is inevitable, but it seems distant until it arrives.
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