For the first time ever the ball was dropped in Times Square other than to welcome in the New Year. For eight years it was an honor to preside over the New Year celebration as Mayor of NYC. The current Mayor, of course, was not there to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our great and beloved United States. He confined it to a small private event.
There is nothing I can say other than asking you all to pray for the city that I love.
Zohran Mamdami lecturing Americans about how our country is terrible on the anniversary weekend of our founding is exactly the type of thing that drives anti-immigrant sentiment.
The guy became a citizen of the greatest country in the world less than a decade ago. That has allowed him the opportunity to have incredible success. But instead of gratitude, he shows only disdain for the country that welcomed him and his family.
He never really adopted the ideals that make this country what it is, and instead spends his time bashing the country and trying to impose the same backwards policies that have failed elsewhere. Including the country his family escaped from.
What an appalling speech the Mayor of New York delivered for the 250th anniversary of the nation.
Sadly, it reflects the view of America propagated for years by Howard Zinn and his like-minded colleagues in the universities and believed by armies of the young: a dark, oppressive country where common people are denigrated by tyrants and oligarchs, where immigrants are treated with contempt, where those with “soft hands” hold the wealth created by those with dirty hands.
No sensible person would claim that our country is without flaws, but the relentlessly negative picture painted by Mayor Mamdani is just absurd.
And it is the fruit of the Marxism that, sadly, is all the rage today.
Compare Calvin Coolidge on America’s 150th anniversary:
“It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their conclusions for something more modern. But that reasoning can not be applied to this great charter. If all men are created equal, that is final. If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final. If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final. No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions. If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward toward the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people. Those who wish to proceed in that direction can not lay claim to progress. They are reactionary. Their ideas are not more modern, but more ancient, than those of the Revolutionary fathers."