NOVEMBER 12, 2025

Today I am sharing 2 articles relative to today’s issues. The 1st article identifies the Democrat Party as not only being a source of the problem, but makes it clear that the Democrats will not be a source of our solutions. The 2nd article takes a broader view of our country’s problems, and offers some ideas on how to reverse our country’s decline. I hope you enjoy.

Mamdani Is NOT a New Phenomenon: He’s the Center of the Democrat Party

No, Mamdani is not going to shock or take down the Democrat Party.

By Melissa Mackenzie, The American Spectator (November 6, 2025)

Why are people surprised? Zohran Mamdani is an inevitability. He’s the Democrats’ covert ideology being made overt and incarnate. He is what would happen if Chuck Schumer and Barack Obama had a baby: facile, good-looking, energetic, destructive, hateful, and malicious.

Chuck Schumer (along with Barney Frank in the House) engineered the 2007 housing crisis and financial crash. His manipulations of Wall Street encouraged DEI mortgages to the “discriminated” against, and so the banks, bowing to political pressure, gave loans to anyone and everyone. Then, Wall Street firms bundled this bad debt, sold it to each other, and a death spiral ensued. And then, Schumer, who created this mess, helped the feds bail out bankers and corporations and screw individual responsible homeowners and small business people. This spawned the Tea Party, yes, but it also spawned Occupy Wall Street, the leftist wackadoos who raped each other in tents while spouting off about communism from their iPads.

Zohran Mamdani is all of Schumer and Obama in one stupid, greedy, globalist, Muslim communist.

Barack Obama sashayed into this mess — vacuous, shiny, good-looking, smooth-talking, and utterly skilled at making the intelligentsia feel orgulous, while simultaneously stoking racism and division, and being an unrepentant globalist Marxist in crony capitalism’s clothing. A nation hoping for racial and economic healing got bitterness and Obamacare, which deepened racial and economic woe. He made the cynical calculation: Healing does not equal power. 

Zohran Mamdani is all of Schumer and Obama in one stupid, greedy, globalist, Muslim communist.

Mamdani is not some aberration. He IS the Democratic Party. AOC is the Democratic Party. The party elders’ problems with her stupidity wasn’t ideology. It was letting the cat out of the bag. It was her style, not her substance. Nancy Pelosi expected more grace and deference from the upstart. 

It’s a new day, and the Democrat Party is now overtly what it always was: a racist, communist, redistributionist, conglomeration of contradictory interest groups united by one thing: hatred of God, family, and country. Abortion is their sacrament. Worshipping the creation instead of the Creator is their claim to morality. Transhumanism is their goal. Universalism is their hope. Oppression, terrorism, technological control, and forced compliance are their tools for domination. There is no limit on their words or behavior because their cause is righteous. They are political zealots.

Democrats are anti-Israel. Antisemitism did not harm Democrats, even in New York City, because the Dems did, in this cycle, identify the problem that Trump forgot: The American people are struggling and need solutions to their problems, and the Democrat solution of taking from the rich and giving to the poor sounds like a solution. Hint: This solution is worse than the problems, but stressed people have a way of hearing what they want to hear. And the 43 percent of New Yorkers who are first-generation Americans, many of them illegals, like the idea of handouts.

What does this mean for Republicans? If I had to predict today, I would say that the midterms will be an utter bloodbath for Republicans. The Democrats have effectively stymied the president’s plans with lawsuits and sand in the gears. Even though the president ultimately prevails, precious time is wasted.

Republicans, time is short. Maybe you guys want to live in a digital ID, tech-lord, jobless American hellscape, but Americans do not. President Trump sold out to tech giants, and they’re giving funds to White House renovations and Donald Trump himself, but none of their money and power has translated in downballot races or a commitment to the American Way. These are globalist transhumanists who think Earth is populated with too many people (a notable exception to this ideology is Elon Musk) and who want robots to take over. AI and robots are literally the only thing holding up the stock market. Stocks, like dollars, aren’t worth the paper they’re printed on. 

The housing market is busting a bit, and still, Americans cannot buy, even with lower rates, because they’re poor. The dollar’s value is declining, and with inflation, how can one even get into a house? Illegal immigrants, criminal syndicates, and BlackRock are buying up homes and inflating prices. Houses are way overvalued, and even a house that appreciated cannot compete with a stock market that doubled. But the stock market, owned by 62 percent of Americans, still has wealth concentrated in the top 10 percent — they own 93 percent of stocks. 

So.

What will Republicans do with this mess? What’s the solution?

One solution would be legislation ensuring fair elections by citizens only. At a minimum. Why is this a solution? Because nothing is real if elections aren’t real. Every illegal that votes disenfranchises a citizen voter. Faith must be restored in the system. It’s also important because citizens have an attachment to the well-being of America that illegal immigrants and even many first-generation legal immigrants simply do not have. Americans vote for American solutions that help Americans.

Another solution would be more deportations. One of the beautiful things about the government benefits being cut off is that the illegals living on American largesse are suddenly in trouble. Time for you to go! This helps deflate housing further.

There are some problems, though, that seem insurmountable. Thousands of jobs are being replaced by AI. Thousands more are being shipped overseas for cheap labor. This is all happening while President Trump is extolling business being brought to America. The government being shut down has revealed another level of inflationary grift: Most government jobs seem like a haven for the otherwise unemployable. In addition, companies like Walmart have offloaded their overhead to taxpayers by paying so little that employees must be on SNAP benefits to live. One-third of Walmart employees are on SNAP. Twenty-five percent of Walmart’s profits are from SNAP benefits. Wait, what? The whole of the system seems like a grift at the expense of the stupid dupes in the middle class — those dutiful, Christian, white people who keep the America boat afloat.

Mamdani doesn’t have the solutions. His answers to what ails New York will create more problems. It’s axiomatic. (See also de Blasio, Bill.) Republicans, though, have to find their footing, if it’s even possible, and do something concrete for Americans that Americans can see, feel, and touch.

No, Mamdani is not going to shock or take down the Democrat Party. No, he won’t realign Americans against socialism. These tropes ignore a couple generations of indoctrination and the utter cynicism that the younger people of America have about the lip service to the American dream. They feel that it’s impossible. Hopeless. They crave community without commitment. Morality without responsibility. Connection without risk. Real life feels beyond them. They want a savior who expects nothing. That’s communism. That’s heady stuff for an aggrieved people.

This is a spiritual problem. It is nihilism. When one enters that state, satisfaction comes from instant gratification and dopamine hits. It comes from revenge at perceived slights. There’s no proactive joy in one’s life. There is only the comfort of seeing the enemy pay.

Tuesday’s election revealed the different worldviews on the left and the right. Increasingly, people on the left are secular, globalist, transhumanist redistributionists, while people on the right are Christian, American, family-oriented businesspeople. The divide is widening. Mamdani represents the divide, and it’s not going away anytime soon.

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The Trough and the Bridge: America’s Forgotten Covenant

By  Christian Vezilj, The American Thinker (November 9, 2025)

In 1956, the United States embarked on the most ambitious infrastructure project in its history: the Interstate Highway System. Born from President Eisenhower’s vision of national unity and defense, it stretched across the continent, connecting cities, industries, and families.

It was a marvel of engineering, but more than that—it was a monument to a cultural ethic. The roads were laid not just with concrete, but with conviction: that hard work, personal responsibility, and generational stewardship were the bedrock of a thriving republic.

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Today, those roads crack, not merely from age, but from neglect. Bridges rust, electrical grids falter, and water systems decay. The nation that once built with foresight now struggles to maintain the basics. This isn’t a failure of engineering. It’s a failure of philosophy.

In the 1950s through the 1970s, Americans lived with limited government assistance. Social Security existed, and Medicare and Medicaid emerged in the mid-60s, but these programs were modest and targeted.

The average citizen didn’t expect the government to solve every problem. Instead, Americans leaned on family, church, community, and personal grit. Fiscal restraint wasn’t just a policy—it was a virtue. People budgeted, saved, and sacrificed. They understood that freedom came with responsibility, and that dignity was earned, not distributed.

Contrast that with today’s landscape. Government spending has ballooned, not toward infrastructure, but toward entitlements. Healthcare, Social Security, and welfare programs consume the lion’s share of federal resources.

The Highway Trust Fund, once a robust engine of national development, limps along on a gas tax that hasn’t been raised since 1993. Meanwhile, the cost of maintaining the Interstate System, estimated at over $1.3 billion annually, is dwarfed by the trillions spent on programs that often reward poor decisions and penalize discipline.

This inversion of values is not merely economic; it’s moral. We have conditioned citizens to look first to Washington, not to their families or communities. We have taught generations that the consequences of their choices will be softened by subsidies. The responsible citizen, the one who works, saves, and sacrifices, is taxed to fund the fallout of those who do not. In doing so, we have eroded the covenant between freedom and accountability.

The metaphor is stark: we have traded the bridge for the trough. The bridge requires planning, labor, and shared sacrifice. It carries generations. The trough feeds for a day. It demands nothing but appetite.

And yet, our national priorities favor the latter. We pour billions into programs that soothe symptoms but ignore causes. We neglect the infrastructure that sustains commerce, safety, and unity—because it does not scream, it does not vote, and it does not promise short-term relief.

This is not a call to abandon compassion. The vulnerable must be cared for. But care must be coupled with clarity. Aid must be a hand up, not a hammock. We must restore the cultural scaffolding that once supported citizens: families that teach resilience, churches that preach virtue, and communities that reward contribution. Government should supplement these pillars—not replace them.

The Interstate Highway System was built during a time when Americans believed in building things that lasted. It was funded by citizens who understood that their taxes were investments in the future.

Today, we collect more tax revenue than ever, yet we struggle to maintain what our forebears built. Why? Because we have lost sight of what money is for. It is not merely for redistribution; it is for regeneration.

Imagine a scene: a grandfather and grandson stand beside a crumbling bridge. The boy asks why it’s falling apart. The grandfather replies, “We built this with sweat, not subsidies. We didn’t wait for help, we became it. And when the bridge needed fixing, we didn’t ask who was to blame. We asked who would show up.” That is the spirit we must recover.

We are at a crossroads, not just of infrastructure, but of identity. Will we continue to reward irresponsibility and neglect the foundations of our nation? Or will we remember the covenant that built the highways, the bridges, and the culture that once carried us forward?

The answer lies not in policy alone, but in principle. We must teach again that freedom is not free, that choices have consequences, and that the road to renewal is paved with responsibility. Only then can we rebuild, not just our highways, but our hope.

GFK