Timothy Birdnow

Tokyo, a city the United States firebombed into near oblivion during the Second World War and which we then rebuilt while completely dominating it, has put on a spectacular display to honor their victorious foes turned best friend on this, the 260th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and formal founding of our country.

Yes, the Japanese are more enthusiastic about the United States of America than are many if not most Democrats.

This contrasts sharply with Zohran Momdani, New York City mayor and Marxist/Islamist, who trashed America and American values on this milestone birthday of the country, a country he desperately wants to change into just another socialist hellhole.

For one thing the New Years ball was dropped in Times Square, the first time in history it has done so on a day other than New Years. THAT should have been a huge event. New York City was a major part of the Revolution with battles fought by Washington to hold then retake the city and as a result it should have been front-and-center in the celebrations. But Momdani signed an executive order that forbade any celebrations that would eclipse the World Cup, an internationalist (just what a Marxist would love) event, so the ball drop was limited to ticket holders who had to pay a lot of money to get in to watch it. Reporters on the scene last night said the crowd was very reserved an unenthusiastic - just what Momdani wanted. What should have been a huge celebration was a giant misfire by design.

To add insult to injury Menshevik Momdani sat at George Washington's desk to smear our country:

Uh, if only a select few are allowed freedom in America why were these immigrants who surrounded him present? Did these folks feel they had to MUCH freedom in their former lands and came her for more control and order?

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We have allowed millions of immigrants in and since 1965 have emphasized non-whites. Few white people have immigrated from Europe since; most come from Latin America and Africa although we have plenty of Chinese coming in now and Momdani's own ancestors come from an Islamic country.

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Children are not going to sleep hungry except where they have lousy parents who don't feed them. Food is available all over. And if it is not whose fault is that? If it is too expensive why is that? It's because of inflation, an inflation caused largely by Democrat policies which drove the prices up. Overspending led to the printing of more money which led to inflation. High energy prices make farming and transporting food more expensive. These were all the policies of people like Zohran Momdani, then he wants to blame the "rich" for it. Maybe he should start with, say, Bernie Sanders who is a millionaire but preaches socialism and pushes policies that drive prices up.

Every nation on Earth has soil-stained hands and factories and people chiseling into the Earth; the U.S. isn't unique. But in the U.S. that is not the inevitable fate of those who labor in that fashion - they can and often do transcend the manual labor and use their talents to better their position. Many CEO's of corporations started as exactly this. America is a nation where such jobs are just the floor and the ladder is wide and open. Other nations don't offer that, which is why people all want to come here. And where does Momdani think all this wealth has come from? Other countries have these sweat and soil soaked hands too but we have so much more. Now why does this pinhead think THAT is?

In America you can just do things without asking permission from some government bureaucrat. In most foreign nations if you want to work as your own boss you have to ask permission, get permits, and give the government their cut. In America you can grab a lawnmower, knock on a door and get cash for cutting a guy's lawn and that is that. Yeah; you are supposed to pay taxes on what you earn but of course everyone cheats a bit on that if they are paid cash. But you can make a living cutting lawns, or painting, or doing all sorts of labor without asking some damned government agency for permission.

In fact in most foreign countries there are underground economies (like in New York with the sale of "loosie" cigarettes) which operate outside of the law. Most Third World countries couldn't survive without the underground economy, and socialist countries ALL need them to survive. You buy contraband in places like Cuba - you don't buy stuff from the official markets. It's the only way you can get stuff. And you steal what you find unguarded so you can sell it on the black market for the stuff you need. In Cuba workers are paid with a government script that is worthless and workers say "if you are going to pretend to pay us we'll pretend to work" and so they do nothing most of the time on their jobs but then use those jobs to steal stuff - cement, garden plants, hoses, stationary, whatever - and sell that on the black market.

We don't really have a black market to speak of in the U.S. except for expensive stuff that is stolen and illicit drugs. It's a very small black market. We don't need one because people can provide for themselves.

Of course Momdani misses the whole point of America and American freedom. It's not about our wealth or our power or our natural resources; other places have the same natural resources. For instance, everyone thought Argentina would be the next U.S. back in the early 20th century and it never happened. Argentina has land that is every bit as blessed as America's. What Argentina had was a socialist government run by Juan Peron and his followers. They were fascists and their economic policies destroyed the Argentine economy.

What makes America great is not her wealth nor her power but the core beliefs that motivated this country, beliefs codified in the Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. It was the belief that we have inalienable rights granted to each and every person by God Himself, not privileges granted by government. All our rights, all the rights codified in the Constitution, flow from that and so do many other rights not specifically enumerated (and the Tenth Amendment says that is so) - such as the right to private enterprise. Ours is the only Constitution in the world that spells out a very limited scope for our government and says what that government may not do. Most constitutions around the world are packed with all sorts of things that the government has to do and assumes government is in charge of everyone's lives. America assumes you are in charge of your own life and that government is merely there to protect you from predatory people so you can exercise your rights in peace and security. Huge difference.

Of course, Momdani, being a socialist, thinks government is there to take care of people rather than protect them. He wants interventionism to make the world "fair" instead of making the world open for opportunity. You cannot create a fair world; in making things better for some you must hurt others.

Monty Python's Flying Circus had a sketch "Dennis Moore" which illustrated it perfectly. Moore was a Robin Hood type who wanted to make a faiar economic order. So he "steals from the rich and gives to the poor" as the show sang in a catchy tune. But in the end he stole so much from the rich they were reduced to sitting around in underwear with nothing while the poor were living in opulent hovels, rich tapestries on lthe walls, golden silverware, crystal goblets, and they were ungrateful that Moore could only bring them a couple of spoons. The sketch ends with the song "he steals from the poor and gives to the rich...stupid bitch" at which point Moore says "this redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought". In the end he stops a stagecoach and makes the travelers take everything out of their pockets "you don't have one of these so you get this, and you don't have this so take that..."

You can't make a just economic and social order in a fallen world. The best you can do is free everyone up to pursue success and prosperity on their own terms. That is what America did. That is NOT what socialists like Momdani want to do, and it's why so many once prosperous nations because hellholes. Socialism is absolutely antithetical to America.

Momdani's problem is he lacks humility and he lacks humility because he does not believe in the Judeo-Christian God. I don't know if he believes in Allah or not, but Allah is not Yahweh and civil rights are not divinely ordained in Islam, but rather the public is simply under Sharia law and do not have rights but rather are subject to the power of the rulers ordained by Allah. It's a very, very different way of viewing the world.

So either way Momdani is anti-American in his core. Japan is more American than is he.

Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We've forgotten who we are, why our country is great, why everyone wants to come here. I was watching a man on the street thing on Fox (or was it Newsmax? Don't remember) where they were asking why America is great. Nobody got the answer right. Most said "capitalism" or "we care about our neighbors" or whatnot. That is all wrong. We are great because, as de Toqueville is alleged to have said, because we used to be good. At the center of America was a solid moral core steeped in our deep faith in God and Jesus Christ. That is why we had rights in the first place; we recognized them as coming from this God in whom we trusted. From those rights flowed every blessing which made America great. It had little to do with us except that we humbled ourselves and put ourselves under the Law of God. We sought God's face. We stopped doing that some time ago and while people in the interior still do to a degree certainly the coasts have become completely apostate. They are neither hot nor cold towards God - they are indifferent. In the Book of Revelation when Jesus is addressing the Church of Laodecia He says "I wish you were hot or cold, but since you are neither I will spew you from my mouth". That is what will happen to America if we continue down this path. The rise of socialists in the Democratic Party is the rise of our own undoing for our apostacy.

Momdani is a bad leader. God gives nations the leadership they deserve. Certainly New York city has come to be another spiritual Babylon. God has given it what it deserves. Babylon became a cautionary tale to the rest of the world. Hopefully New York will be a cautionary tale to the rest of the United States.

So to sum up, what makes America great? The Lord Almighty. God bless America!

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