Happy 4th Of July To Everyone Who Actually Loves America, The Land Of Economic Freedom

The haters can take their redistribution schemes and go fu*k themselves

Zohran Mamdani knows how a desk works. He has not sat behind the desk wrong. A Washington-style desk has drawers on both sides. While this one is associated with George Washington, the style is European in origin. It’s a furnishing for an age before file cabinets and folders, which were invented a century after this style took the name of America’s first president.

What makes this image uncanny are the faces. American greatness was not achieved by such unenthusiastic patriots. The United States became a nation through strength, valor, and sacrifice by an Army of free men. America was already a land of freedom compared to Europe in Revolutionary times.

This is why Americans were already becoming richer than Europeans, which is why King George III wanted to tax the colonists so much in the first place.

Mamdani’s paternal Indian family originated in Gujarat. His ancestors were traders — capitalists — who migrated to East Africa during the 1890s. Gujarat practiced slavery until the British East India Company abolished it in 1843, and the practice of bondage labor (halis) still continued into the 20th century.

Mamdani was raised in Uganda, where his wealthy family maintains a palatial estate with a staff. The slave trade was simultaneously rejected in Uganda by Christian chiefs and suppressed by the British East Africa Company right around the time his family arrived in Africa, though existing slavery lingered into the 20th century in the Buganda Kingdom of Uganda.

So by the time Mamdani’s family got to Africa, white Christian Europeans were ending slavery in both India and Africa, where it had existed for thousands of years, and the United States had already fought a bloody civil war to end slavery at home. The US Navy, the Royal Navy, and la Marine Nationale had ended the Atlantic slave trade, while France was busy ending the very last African slave kingdom in 1894.

So it is rich hearing Mamdani complain that “we spend our tax dollars on bombs” in the same speech where he praises the military daring of George Washington’s army. How else does Mayor Mamdani suppose freedom can be secured in the real world of human nature? Vibes? Papers? Essays?

Mamdani is hardly interested in lowering taxes. He shares this in common with King George III. On the eve of the American Revolution, the Thirteen Colonies had higher average real per capita income — purchasing power — than Britain and most of Western Europe. America has always been envied for riches.

Fast-forward to the present, when European soccer fans are touring the United States to watch World Cup games and keep posting amazed videos in American restaurants and gas stations. Today, many times more Europeans die of heat stroke than Americans die of gun violence because air conditioning is considered a luxury.

Mamdani wants to redistribute all this wealth. In the current system, he says, “children go to sleep hungry while the world’s first trillionaire hungers for more.” Of course, the world’s first trillionaire does not actually have a Scrooge McDuck vault with a trillion dollars in it. Elon Musk owns companies valued at a trillion dollars, and what Mamdani wants to do is seize that means of production.

Mamdani makes this clear when he talks of “corporate landlords for whom negligence is a business model.” That is his innocent framing for the sinister policy of trapping landlords between rent control and high regulation, so that no one can afford to maintain or upgrade a building. Properties end up controlled by New York City government, which can run a grand experiment in public housing.

Mamdani wants us to empathize with “the father who tucks his children into bed beneath a ceiling stained with leaks, who wakes before dawn to go to work and still believes his country can do better by his family.” In fact this describes the kind of housing his policy creates in pursuit of control over housing in the city.

When Mamdani criticizes “a health insurance industry that exploits the sick”, that is because the sick are supposed to become dependent classes under the redistribution of health care. When Mamdani decries “monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections”, it is because he wants to monopolize control of key industries in order to build a political machine.

According to Mamdani, opponents of this scheme want “an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal.” People who resist communism are racists who think America “belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.”

It is uncanny to hear this Third Worldist prattle at the same time World Cup visitors are having such a good time at Bass Pro Shops. America has not had to build a single stadium in order to host the world’s largest sporting event. Europeans are impressed at how a small town college like Auburn, Alabama can afford such a large, modern stadium — and fly an eagle in it during a game.

The United States is indeed “the wealthiest country in the history of the world” as Mamdani says. That is because we remain a nation of free enterprise, and in general, low taxation. His program would repurpose capital to ends that he would manage on our behalf. We can be as poor and hot as Europeans, if we want. All we have to do is let Zohran have his way with us.

Democrats might just let him have his way. According to recent public opinion polls, just 36 percent of Democrats say they are “extremely” or “very” proud to be American. That is a record low this century, down from 62 percent in 2024 and ~80% in the mid-2010s under President Obama. The partisan gap, 56 points, is the highest ever recorded.

Democratic Party patriotism appears to be more partisan and political than the patriotism of Republicans. When the voters don’t vote right, democracy goes out the window, and Democrats want to tear down the pillars of the republic. Democrats have a higher opinion of the Black Lives Matter flag than the American flag. The lack of enthusiasm in the picture is reflected in the polling.

A ‘diversity’ cast listlessly holding small American flags does not inspire patriotism. The scene is a conquest, not a celebration. Mayor Mamdani is a herald for the redistribution of socialized housing and health care sectors of the American economy, in that picture. His performance of patriotism is unconvincing.

Mamdani has been an American for just eight years, and he is already establishing king-like powers over life in New York City. Questioning his commitment to American principles is not a form of bigotry. It is an act of national self-preservation. Withholding health care and housing from immigrants is not racism. It is the first act of creating a newly independent American.

Invoking John Adams in the musical 1776, I vote for “independency”. Mamdani hates independency and loves Third World dependency. America must be independent of the world if we are to remain a place the world wants to visit, and our liberty requires taking responsibility for our own selves instead of surrendering sovereignty.

We are a nation of immigrants that has shut the gates before in order to stem the tides of radicalism and restore our independency: our exceptionalism. Turns out that we are Americans, and we can just do things. A country like that is worth our love.

Happy 4th of July. Go find some fireworks and have an independent weekend.