There’s one thing you can count on about socialism: It can, and does, reduce a wealthy city, state, or nation from prosperity to penury in a generation. It always starts with big promises and ends up with bread lines. New York City, having now inaugurated an actual Democratic Socialist – in other words, a commie – as mayor, is now stepping off the big promises line and headed for the bread lines. Zohran Mamdani, as he takes up the office, may well end up making Bernie Sanders look like Barry Goldwater, and in true commie style, he’s getting stuck right in: His inaugural block party seems ideally designed to get his constituents used to the “warmth of collectivism.” Specifically: There was no food, and no toilets.
Zohran Mamdani fans disappointed by disastrous ‘block party’ with no food, bathrooms https://t.co/hPEwqjfVl6 pic.twitter.com/upZvJBTjpV
— New York Post (@nypost) January 1, 2026
Welcome to Soviet New York, where politicians eat you. Figuratively speaking, of course. For now.
The full NY Post piece has more on the failed block party.
Backers of Mamdani stood outside City Hall during the inauguration without access to bathrooms and with no food concession stands as they crammed into barricade pens during the New Year’s Day festivities.
Revelers watched the inauguration on a series of big television screens as 4,000 invited guests sat in City Hall’s plaza to take the oath of office.
“It’s not exactly what I was expecting,” said Brooklyn resident Shane Turner, 30. “I was expecting food and music.”
“I could’ve watched this from home,” a 25-year-old Queens woman added.
To Shane Turner and her ilk, I could say this: “Why didn’t you expect it? The lack of food, the lack of drink, the lack of toilets? It’s what you voted for!”
This is how socialism always turns out.
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Here’s the thing, and I’m going to tell you: This is precisely what Zohran Mamdani promised to do. One has to give him a little grudging credit for that much. Unlike a lot of politicians, he’s going to do exactly what he said he was going to do. His staff appointments to date would fit in at an Antifa rally or in the North Korean Politburo. His understanding of economics is about at the level of a 5th-century (B.C.) herdsman who thought the moon was a light shining through a hole in the roof.
And now, to top all that off, a “block party” that seemed less of a party and more of a mass re-education camp, with revelers prisoners standing in the cold, hungry, thirsty, uncomfortable, and befuddled. But then, they’d have to be befuddled to have voted for the guy.
From big promises to bread lines. That’s how socialism works. Every time. Not to mention the hundreds of millions of people socialist governments have killed since Karl Marx penned his vicious book. That, we can hope, won’t happen in New York; it’s still a city subject to the laws of the state of New York and the United States of America. But the bread lines? The flight of any remaining productive people? New York’s descent into a mess that will require someone who looks a lot like a young Kurt Russell with an eyepatch to get safely in and out of the city? Just you wait.
Mayor Mamdani (ugh) has been in office for less than 24 hours, and New Yorkers are already getting hit with H.L. Mencken’s warning: Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Editor’s Note: Zohran Mamdani is an avowed Democratic Socialist, and he is now the mayor of New York City. Holy bread lines, Batman!
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