“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.”
That famous line comes from H.L. Mencken, a man whose cynicism makes me look like a Pollyanna.
But, you have to admit, he has a point. Just because a majority of people want something doesn't make it right or good. For instance, as Marvin Simkin wrote, “Democracy is not freedom. Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to eat for lunch. Freedom comes from the recognition of certain rights which may not be taken, not even by a 99% vote.”
Still, when people who voted for Zohran Mamdani at a rate of more than 70% find out the consequences weren't what they expected, it's hard to feel sorry for them.
Libs will literally vote for a communist and then sue him to protect their own backyards.
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) April 23, 2026
Sociopathic levels of contradiction. https://t.co/7KeOKpZY89
The basic theory of communists, if not communism itself, is that somebody else will pay for what I get.
Young Communist Unsettled To Find Hammer, Sickle Represent Physical Labor https://t.co/w0JXS4j0GK pic.twitter.com/gN3rpUFoH2
— The Babylon Bee (@TheBabylonBee) March 14, 2025
It's always been striking to me that the communists I come across believe that good things magically appear at no cost, and the only reason why the world has any problems is that selfish people are keeping them from happening. They don't get that wealth is created, that civilization is the product of generations of hard work and enforcement of laws and traditions, and that nothing comes free.
These people who live in the East Village are learning that helping the homeless is not an abstract problem, and that if they want better conditions for the free housing they support, then they have to provide a place where those people can go.
Enraged East Villagers sued Mayor Zohran Mamdani in a last-gasp effort to stop the relocation of hundreds of homeless men to a new shelter in their neighborhood.
The lawsuit filed Monday seeks an emergency restraining order that would prevent the “rushed” May 1 opening of the intake shelter along Third Street.
The site was selected by City Hall as one of two intake shelters in Manhattan that would effectively replace the notorious Bellevue homeless shelter — a haven for often-dangerous vagrants that Mamdani plans to close by the end of the month.
These Mamdani voters are suddenly worried about the crime and social decay that dangerous vagrants bring along with them.
They weren't before, of course. The same people who will march in the streets demanding that homelessness be solved and that humane conditions must be provided for dangerous drug addicts are now suing to ensure that they become somebody else's problem.
It's the same everywhere, of course. In San Francisco, every leftist will scream about affordable housing and then sue to prevent the construction of new housing.
“None of you all can stop drinking and drugging … and all lingering around here creating crimes and all kinds of stuff,” thundered the Rev. Keith Gadson, one of the hundreds of locals at the meeting. “Put it in your neighborhood!”
"Put it in your neighborhood!" would be a perfectly appropriate thing for somebody who voted for Curtis Sliwa. After all, Sliwa's voters were basically telling the East Villagers that if they are so determined to pretend that people are homeless because capitalist pigs wanted to impoverish them, and not because they are dysfunctional drug addicts who spend much of their lives committing petty and not-so-petty crimes, they should take them in.
But no, these are the "compassionate" people who believe that electing a communist will turn New York into a socialist paradise.
At least they believed it until the communists told them to take in the homeless drug addicts.
I've watched countless videos of young commies screaming into the cameras about how unjust it is that they have to work in order to feed and house themselves. They seem to believe that others are hoarding manna from heaven or something, rather than building lives and communities through hard work.
It would be interesting to know what percentage of East Village residents earn their income from working for government-subsidized NGOs, are artists who live off grants, or work for the government. 18% of all employees in the city work for NGOs, Another 13% work for the government.
That's 31%. I bet the percentage in the East Village is substantially higher than that.
No wonder they think good things appear out of nowhere. They do for them, and when reality slaps them in the face the first impulse is to protest that life isn't fair.
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