My City in Ruins

Many people on the left in this country felt very good about themselves on November 4, 2008. The United States of America had just elected the first black President, and they were the ones who voted him into office. They were very proud of themselves. They were the moral superiors. They voted for the black guy, while the other party voted for the racist old white man. And even though many of us who didn’t vote for Obama were upset that he had won the election, we told ourselves that this proved that the United States of America is clearly not a racist country. Racist countries do not elect a black President with the most votes in its history. Many of us were upset over his election, not because of the color of his skin, but because of his left-wing politics. But we took solace in the fact that we would finally be living in a post-racial country. No longer would people be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

Not so fast. Not only were we not lauded for being open to all races, for the eight years of Obama’s presidency, we were reminded every day that America was the most racist country on the planet and that all white people were irredeemably racist. So even electing a black man President did not prove that the United States was not a racist country. How many white people are political leaders in China? How many Christians are political leaders in Muslim majority Middle Eastern countries? None. The Christians are beheaded in Muslim majority countries. But those countries are not racist, only white America is. Not only did white people have to apologize for the sins they may have committed, white people had to apologize for every bad thing that any white person committed in the history of the world. While black people were getting off and being forgiven for violent crimes they actually committed, white people were found guilty of crimes that other white people committed two hundred years ago because white America is racist.

And the proof of racism in America was anyone who criticized the new President. A black President can do no wrong, so if you disagreed with him on any policy, it had to be because you hate the fact that a black man is in the White House. It had nothing to do with not wanting the government to take over healthcare, our premiums doubling, having less choice of which doctor to see, or eventually our healthcare system becoming so bad that health insurance CEOs are assassinated. No, if you don’t want any of that, it means that you’re a racist. Obama used his race as both a weapon and a shield against his opponents.

Obama’s presidency was not just about racial retribution; it was about something bigger and more insidious. The first spring of his Presidency, Obama traveled to the Middle East on his infamous “apology tour”. He apologized to the Muslims in the Middle East for the United States giving them the reason to commit terrorist attacks against America. He explained to them that it was the United States’ fault that Muslims keep killing Americans. America’s history is so egregious, that it only makes sense that Muslims would hijack airplanes and fly them into our biggest buildings, or strap explosive devices on their bodies and blow themselves up killing as many Americans as possible. That is essentially what he told the people in the Middle East that spring. The radical Islamic terrorists were not wrong. America was wrong. Talk about putting America last.

Next, Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, without ever doing anything peaceful, other than maybe include the word peace in many of his speeches. So even though many of us didn’t like the fact that we now had a far-left wing President, we were comforted believing that at least there would be peace in the world. How could a Nobel Peace Prize winner, not do everything in his power to bring more peace to the world. Not so fast. Over the next seven years, Obama started five separate wars in the Middle East. It turned out that Obama was never about peace; he was about conquering the West and conquering America. He started those wars in the Middle East because he knows that with wars come refugees. And he needed a way to bring as many Muslim refugees into this country as possible. And that’s what he did. During his presidency, 70,000 Somali refugees were brought into the United States of America, not into any one of the 46 other Muslim majority countries who closed their doors to those people. They were brought into the United States and located into places like Dearborn, Michigan, and now we have a Somali terrorist sympathizer as a Congresswoman in US House of Representatives.

European countries have also been flooded with Muslim refugees from Obama’s war-torn countries. They did not relocate in the other Muslim majority countries in the Middle East, but they have to go to Europe, or the United States and Canada. They’re not here to assimilate. They’re not here to coexist. They are here to conquer. There’s no two ways around it. London has been completely seized by radical Muslims. There have been over 100,000 knife attacks in the city of London since Muslim Sadiq Kahn has been mayor of that city, and he is not alarmed by that violence because it is Muslims stabbing white British citizens. That’s okay, but if a white British citizen looks at a Muslim the wrong way, they are evil. Christians are being arrested for praying in public or criticizing Islam in England, while the London police look the other way as Muslims rape young British girls in their No-Go Zones.

This brings us to the election of Zohran Mamdani in New York City. How did he get elected? The same way all socialists get elected. He promised a lot of free stuff to a lot of people. The Bolsheviks took over Russia because they promised to create a workers’ paradise provided by the government. And what the people got was standing in freezing temperatures for three hours just to get their hands on one free roll of toilet paper, and 20 million Ukrainians murdered. But in New York, the subways are going to be free now. Isn’t that a great thing? Except for the fact that no one will want to ride the subways because it’s will be infested with gangs, and drug dealers, and the homeless, and lunatics who want to stab you or rape you or push you in front of a subway train, and nothing will be done about it because the police will be defunded. So, it’ll be free to ride the subway, you won’t have to pay for it except maybe with your life.

Everything has to be free because 37% of New York City’s residents are foreign born immigrants – 3.1 million of 8.6 million population. The overwhelming majority of them voted for Mamdani and his socialist policies. 3.1 million immigrants cannot survive in the country’s most expensive city, unless food and housing are heavily subsidized by the government. That’s what he promised. Mamdani will turn New York City into the very countries that the 3.1 million immigrants fled because they were failing due to that countries’ socialist policies that Mamdani promises to implement in New York City. The only way to elect a socialist in the United States’ bastion of capitalism is to import people who are so uninformed, so uneducated and so unintelligent that not only can’t they learn from world history, they cannot even learn from their own history.

We will not be able to criticize Mamdani because doing so means that we are on Islamophobic, just as criticizing Obama meant that we were racist. So, if you don’t want to have higher taxes, re-distribution of wealth, the government seizing property, the government taking over businesses and industry, the police defunded, more crime and more rapes, and the subway becoming most lethal way to travel, it means that you are Islamophobic. It doesn’t mean that you’re smart, and you want a safe prosperous city to live in, it just means you’re Islamophobic.

Mamdani will turn New York City into a dystopian nightmare. Every problem will get infinitely worse. Socialism brings nothing but poverty, crime and violence. Mamdani will do to New York City what Osama Bin Laden could only hope to do – bring New York to its knees. 24 years after 9/11, New York City has been conquered by a radical Islamist. It is not that the citizens of New York have forgotten what the Muslims did that September day a quarter century ago, it is because many of those citizens have been replaced by the very people who were cheering in the streets of their home countries when the Trade Centers came down. New York City will be brought to ruins, not because America is racist or Islamophobic, but because Mamdani is an evil idiot. And to the white liberals who voted for Mamdani, you are not morally superior because you voted for someone who will bring nothing but poverty, crime, violence and death to a great city because he was a minority. In fact, your perceived moral superiority is actually moral bankruptcy. You sacrificed the lives and livelihood of millions of your fellow citizens for your own pride.

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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.