Z is for Zohran

A generation (Z) has been brainwashed by social justice fundamentalists with warmed over Marxism because too many Gen Xers did a terrible job raising their children.

Source: Heute.at

The Democratic primary election in New York City delivered a stunning upset as 33-year-old State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani, a democratic socialist with no executive experience, defeated former Governor Andrew Cuomo with 44 percent of the vote to become the party's mayoral candidate. Despite limited name recognition and campaign funds, Mamdani's victory was driven by younger, progressive voters drawn to his radical beliefs and economic reforms, including citywide rent freezes, universal rent control, fare-free transit, and city-run grocery stores—and the 1 percent will supposedly pay the tab. The result is the most significant leftward shift in NYC politics in a generation.

Bill de Blasio was bad enough. The socialist lite mayor had already wrought enough destruction to send New Yorkers scurrying away from the Big Apple seeking greener pastures, even before COVID-19 hit. By the time Eric Adams took office in 2001, deterioration had accelerated.

From July 2010 through June 2011—just before de Blasio took office—net domestic outmigration was already negative, at -48,668 people. But by June 2019, near the end of de Blasio’s second term, the annual net outmigration had increased to -131,367 people. The pandemic accelerated this trend. From July 2020 to June 2021, the outflow spiked to -313,358 people, more than double the annual outflow of the prior two years.

Those who could leave the region entirely went to Florida, usually Miami.

The young adults who stayed behind—raised in a cluster of loan-fueled indoctrination centers like CUNY, Fordham, NYU, and Columbia—came of age amid municipal disintegration and widespread brain rot. Social justice fundamentalism is a religion with no God but the Government. Its critics have always understood that orthodox Marxism animates it.

As Zohran Mamdani said in 2021,

But then there are also other issues that we firmly believe in, whether it's BDS or whether it is the end goal of seizing the means of production, where we do not have the same level of support at this very moment.

In case you weren’t aware, BDS stands for boycott, divestment, and sanctions, a movement where activists wearing keffiyahs and COVID masks refuse to buy Bamba from Trader Joe’s because it comes from Israel. It’s no accident, then, that Mamdani has been quoted variously as saying 'globalize the intifada,' Today, though, the internet seems to have been scrubbed of these instances, and Mamdani still refuses to condemn the violent slogan.

What about so many Gen Xer parents, then?

How strange that those who lived through 9/11 and the fall of the Berlin Wall have managed to raise terrorist sympathizers and Marxists. I have expressed my contempt for activists, but I still don’t understand how rich kids from the Upper East Side can be against colonizers yet be so comfortable tolerating Islamism—arguably the most successful colonial program the world has ever seen.

The Kids Are Not Alright

Notwithstanding Mamdani’s rewarmed (but failed) policy proposals—yes, including communism—Gen Z imagines that these goofy, obviously wrong ideas are a fresh and exciting way of sticking it to rich, white colonizers and to blame *capitalism* for everything that’s wrong with the world.

Michael Shellenberger's commentary over at Public is dead on:

Like Mamdani himself, his most vocal supporters grew up in comfort and were told they were exceptional. They were shielded from the consequences of their behaviors. Their support for defunding the police doesn't come from living in high-crime areas; their opposition to conservatorship doesn't come from watching an addicted or mentally ill loved one deteriorate untreated. Boomers told their millennial children from childhood that they were special, that success would follow passion, and that college degrees would guarantee prosperity. Instead, they graduated into debt, a gig economy, and unaffordable housing.

Rather than confront the structural and personal forces behind their disappointment, including delayed adulthood, bad policy, and collapsing institutions, they channeled their resentment towards landlords, employers, and anyone who appears to have what they were promised.

The truth is, young Americans have been born into a rigged game that has indeed benefited the monstrously wealthy—many of whom are their parents.

Yet, these are not problems entrepreneurs create, but rather the grotesque distortions of crony capitalism, or what Gene Epstein calls “crapitalism.” Typically, Gen Z is unable to make such diagnoses, which would lay most of Gen Z’s financial woes at the feet of state interventionists and central bankers. After all, those eeeeeeevil corporations didn’t:

• Spend us into 36 trillion in debt (Congress did),

• Print the money to pay for it out of thin air (the Fed did),

• Let NIMBIES artificially raise the cost of housing through burdensome zoning and permitting restrictions, or

• Create a situation in which young people thought it would be a fabulous idea to take out $250,000 in loans for a degree in Postcolonial Studies.

I wish I could say that my parents (the Baby Boomers) understood that they made much of the mess we’re in, or that my generation (X) has done a good job of explaining these complicated dynamics to our children instead of letting V.I. Lenin and Franz Fanon do it. But we failed millennials and Gen Z, respectively.

The Marxist-Mohammedan Axis

Zorhan Mamdani is a nice guy in a taqiyya sort of way. But a slick demeanor and charming manner obscure a dual evil of intersectionality: one part Marxist and one part Mohammedan. Like Transtifa, the vile fusionist groups of Portland and Seattle clad in black-bloc drag, the Marxist-Mohammedan axis combines the revolutionary impulses of Marxist-Leninists with the expansionist or terrorist motivations of Islamists.

As long as these two groups offer each other aid and comfort, their shadowy networks will continue to expand, and purported nice guys like Zorhan Mamdani will provide a seductive cover.

I don’t know what to do about this except be sickened.

I hope Marxist-Mohammedanism doesn’t metastasize too far outside of America’s already cancerous blue centers. Still, with this axis of evil taking full advantage of what’s left of our liberal institutions, it will be tough to isolate these pockets or, better, separate from them to establish a thicker membrane for the rest of us still clinging to the promise of freedom and order.