It’s Raining

Just after midnight, on New Year’s Day, New York City inaugurated Zohran Mamdani as mayor and in his first address, he said that he was going to replace “rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism.” When I read that, I threw up in my mouth. Calling what he plans to do to New York City ‘warm collectivism’, is like urinating on our backs and telling us that it’s raining. We all know how this ends – poverty and death. Every country that has ever tried collectivism, which is a euphemism for socialism and communism, have all devolved into poverty and death – Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, etc.

We do not want collectivism, not because we hate our fellow man, and want them to suffer and die in the streets, but rather, we know that government is corrupt and the more money and power that we give the corrupt government, the more corrupt it will become. That is a law of human nature – power and money corrupt. When the Marxist sympathizer Barack Obama became President, our national debt was $9 trillion, now it is $38 trillion. So, for the first 218 years of existence, our country accrued $9 trillion of debt, and in the last 18 years after we elected a Marxist, we accumulated $29 trillion of debt. Where did all this money go?

In 2022, the US spent over $70 billion in foreign aid to nearly 200 countries, territories, and geographic regions – most of whom hate us. In 2024, over $300 billion flowed through government agencies like USAID and State Department to NGOs where much of that money flowed back into the campaigns of Democrats who allocated the billions of dollars to the NGOs, and to left wing media outlets who were promoting Democrat candidates. That is called corruption on a grand scale. No left-wing media outlet reported on it. Elon Musk estimates at least $1.5 trillion of fraud nationally in the U.S. per year – roughly 20% of the federal budget. This is why we don’t want collectivism and why we just want to keep most of our own money.

Mamdani’s idea of collectivism is what is happening in Minnesota. $9 billion of fraud has been uncovered in the Minnesota Somali communities. They are collecting the hard-earned money from the rugged individuals and giving it to the unskilled, unintelligent, illiterate lazy immigrants from Somali or other third world nations. And those enclaves in Minnesota filled with immigrants living off the government have turned into the third world hell-holes that these people fled from. 81% of Somalis are on welfare. They are not smart enough or skilled enough to survive in a first world country without massive help or fraud from government which is all funded by the taxes levied on the rugged individuals who people like Mamdani want to get rid of. And when a citizen journalist like 23-year-old Nick Shirley exposed this massive fraud in Minnesota by going to the empty healthcare and childcare centers receiving millions of tax dollars, he was the one vilified by the mainstream press, not the people stealing tax dollars from our government.

Has anyone asked the question, why the Somali community which has such a high unemployment rate that 81% of them are on welfare, need to have so many daycare centers in their communities? When questioned about the Somali fraud in his state, Governor Tim Walz responded by saying, “white people commit crimes too.” Minnesota is just the tip of the iceberg. In Boston, there are nearly 4,000 daycare centers receiving government funding crammed into a 20-mile radius around the city. Healthcare and childcare fraud by the Somali communities is suspected in Ohio, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, and several other states.

$35 million dollars from the corrupt Somali run daycare and healthcare centers in Minnesota was donated to Democrat candidates in the state, many of the very politicians who are now defending the Somalis against accusations of fraud. During the Biden administration, the Democrats hired 87,000 IRS agents to go after our tax dollars while at the same time importing millions of immigrants who were stealing our tax dollars and then funding Democrat candidates. You cannot make this up. And yet, we are vilified for not wanting the government to collect all of our hard-earned money and redistribute it how they see fit.

Understand, Mayor Mamdani is an anti-white, anti-Semitic, anti-Christian, Muslim bigot who despises everything about America and traditional Americans. He is not unlike most of the immigrants who are being imported here from the third world. They hate us, yet they want our country, they want our money, they want everything that we built. Why are Somalis all over the place in these corrupt Democrat strongholds? Because their average IQ is 68. The Democrats know, the dumber the people are, the easier they are to control, the less they will think for themselves. 

What these collectivists fail to realize is that without rugged individuals, there would not be any wealth or resources to collect and redistribute. We need more rugged individualism, not less. These people always talk about others paying the fair share, but never about them doing their fair share, working their fair share, producing their fair share. They are great about taking their fair share without contributing their fair share.

But, Mamdani is being honest. He wants to replace the rugged individuals with the people who need or want handouts from the government. He doesn’t want independent, self-reliant citizens, he wants everyone dependent on the government, dependent on him. That’s why he wants to replace the rugged individuals – the European Christians, the Jews, the immigrants who have already assimilated into traditional Americans – the people who have built this country, the people who believe in hard work, earning their way, who believe in objective truth, and right and wrong, who believe in our Constitution and Declaration of Independence. The only way they can execute the great replacement is if the tax dollars of the rugged individuals – the people being replaced – are funneled to the immigrants – the people brought here to replace them. What they fail to understand is that once the replacement is complete, there won’t be enough money being earned or produced to subsidize the new majority of people, and the United States will devolve into a massively corrupt third world nation filled with poverty and death. 

The number one resource of the United States is not oil and gas; it is not gold or silver or uranium; it is not natural resources; and it is not the land itself either; it is the people. The rugged individuals who built this country, who grew it into the richest most powerful nation in the history of the world. The United States citizen – the ones Mamdani wants to replace – are the reason why this country is so great, and the reason why there are resources available to collect and redistribute. Remember one thing, the people make the country, the country does not make the people. So, if you are from a horrible country, it is because your country is full of horrible people. If you bring a lot of horrible people to a functioning prosperous country, it will become a horrible country within a generation. That’s just the truth. When you import people in masse, you import their culture, and if their culture is one of violence and rape and corruption and lawlessness, you will get a lot of violence, rape, corruption and lawlessness. Somalia is ranked as the 2^nd most corrupt country on the planet. And then we scratch our heads when we find out that the Somalian immigrants created the most widespread government corruption ring that we have ever seen. That’s all they know is corruption. That’s their milieu. And that is why Somalia is one of the worst countries on the planet.

What angers me the most is not that they just stole $9 billion from us, its that they do it with such an air of entitlement, like they believe that they have the right to steal from us because they are so much better people than we are. They believe that white Christians are the worst people on the planet, so therefore, they are justified to take as much from us as possible. You would think that if a group of people came to another country and were stealing $9 billion dollars from the people of that country, they would at least pretend to be their friends and respect their culture and religion. But not these people. As they are stealing $9 billion from us, they openly state that they hate us, they hate our culture and religion, and they want to replace us and replace our culture and religion. And we know how little they respect us and care about us because their leader, Ilian Omar referred to the terrorist attacks on 9/11 as, “some people did something”, as if Islamic terrorists murdering 3,000 Americans was nothing more than jaywalking or graffiti. And not one Muslim pushed back on her. Most of the Muslims who have been imported here after 9/11 were most likely dancing in the streets on 9/11.

As New York is embracing communism, totalitarianism and Islamism, in Iran, there are grassroots uprising all over the country, the people are fed up with the totalitarian control of Islamism. A country filled with Muslims is rejecting Islamism, but a country filled with non-Muslims is going to accept Islamism? The issue isn’t whether this collectivist experiment in New York City will fail or not, we know it will fail. It always does. The issue is that the left will never admit that it failed and they will find a way to blame Republicans and capitalism for the failures of collectivism. We saw that with Obamacare. Those of us on the right all predicted it would be an abject failure, and when insurance premiums tripled, health insurance became unaffordable and healthcare CEOs are being assassinated, all the people who voted for Obamacare have blamed all the people who voted against it. And the Democrat stenographers who pretend to be journalists, blamed the Republicans for the failure of that Democrat legislation. No one on the left will ever admit that Mamdani failed as mayor just as they refused to admit that the Minnesota Somali community is corrupt or Obamacare made healthcare infinitely worse, and that lack of honesty is the biggest problem our country faces.

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.