https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/11/paul-craig-roberts/the-times-they-are-a-changin/

The Times They Are a-Changin
By Paul Craig Roberts

On the surface Zohran Mamdani’s election as mayor of New York supports my contention that American democracy has become riven with faction and left-wing ideology and has become dysfunctional. See this.

Mamdani’s agenda of rent freezes, city-run non-profit grocery stores, more taxes on the rich, free subways, reduced police presence, and the rest of his promised handouts to the unproductive brings the redistributive character of US democracy to the breaking point at which the productive leave a city where public safety is declining along with the rewards to work and responsible behavior.

Will we see “Escape from New York” or on the other hand, perhaps Mamdani is just a political opportunist riding the rise of the woke era to personal riches from the kickbacks from the New York building trades’ profits from building his affordable public housing to fill the role of private-supplied housing blocked by Mamdani’s rent controls.

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America’s founding fathers were aware of the dangers of faction that democracy brings, and they were aware of the tendency of mobs to seize property and of the tendency of females to make emotive instead of rational decisions. To hinder and to delay the impact of these destabilizing tendencies, the founding fathers restricted democracy to the judgment of male property owners.

As years passed the protective shields that made democracy functional were removed. The appointment of US senators by state legislators to insure that the senators represented their states and not the interests of national lobbies that provide campaign funds was removed, and the Senate, like the House, became subject to demagogic elections often determined by slander, fraud, and vote-buying. Weak men gave in and bestowed the vote on women. It made little difference for a long time, because men still predominated in societal institutions. But as Helen Andrews reports, in the US all societal institutions have now been feminized. See here.

The goal of excluding “toxic males” from societal decision-making has largely succeeded. The replacement of men by women has dramatically reduced the birth rate in all Western societies. As women choose career over motherhood, calls intensify for more non-white immigration to fill the gap from the declining white birth rate. If this trend continues, white ethnicities will disappear, as Jean Raspail predicted they would. It seems that my generation and perhaps the one that followed are the last to experience life in the context of Western civilization. ......