ZORAN WHO?
In the history of transatlantic politics, the United States and the United Kingdom have, through long and often bitter struggles, overcome deep-seated nativism. They now elevate to the highest offices individuals whose names and backgrounds would have been unacceptable just twenty years ago—excluded not only from government, but from academia and everyday life as well.
Today, Zohran Mamdani, an emblematic progeny of British imperialism, its racial and religious animus it engendered toward peoples of color and different faiths, has ascended to claim the mayoralty of New York City, vanquishing erstwhile Governor Andrew Cuomo and Republican contender Curtis Sliwa in a contest of historic resonance.
At thirty-four, Mamdani emerges not merely as the metropolis’s inaugural Muslim and South Asian steward, but as its youngest chief executive in over a century, a democratic socialist whose improbable trajectory from obscure state assemblyman to steward of the nation’s preeminent urban polity underscores a seismic reconfiguration of American politics.
MAMDANI AND THE IRONY OF OVERWHELMING JEWISH SUPPORT FOR A MUSLIM
The exquisite irony herein resides in Mamdani’s lineage: a Muslim of Indian descent, born to parents, one a Hindu (his mother- award winning film maker Mira Nair) the other a Muslim (his father-a prominent American academic) exiled from Uganda, an erstwhile British dominion, whose candidacy has garnered fervent approbation from a formidable Jewish electorate, predominantly comprising Chassidic Orthodox communities whose theological commitments preclude fealty to Zionism or the State of Israel.
This confluence, improbable as it may appear amid the fractious discourses of identity and allegiance, bespeaks a burgeoning pluralism that transcends sectarian fault lines, affirming the redemptive potential of shared urban exigencies over inherited schisms.
MURDOCH, BLOOMBERG AND THE LEGACY MEDIA – INCREDULOUS
Compounding this tableau of poetic justice is the discomfiture inflicted upon the machinations of Rupert Murdoch and Michael Bloomberg, those titans of right-wing Zionist media hegemony, whose fulsome endorsements of Cuomo, coupled with a torrent of calumnious reportage and fabricated invective, have exploded in their faces.
The New York Post’s furious attacks and the Wall Street Journal’s editorial thunderbolts, once powerful tools for shaping the story, now lie in ruins, their irrelevance exposed by voters no longer fooled by such tricks. In this rejection, we see the fading of an age when lies could pass for debate, replaced by an alert public that demands real truth.
This Mamdani triumph, far from an isolated epiphany, inscribes itself upon a broader cartography of liberal renewal that has, in recent annals, compelled the Occident to reconcile its professed universalism with the inexorable demographics of its “New World” progeny.
A TRUTH THATS HARD TO SWALLOW
Rising Stars from Afar
See Kamala Harris sworn in as America’s first woman Vice President, yet ignored by white feminists of the old world order who prefer Hillary Clinton inspite of her lack of poliotical credibility and personal integrity.
Rishi Sunak crowned Britain’s first Indian-origin Prime Minister; António Luís Costa, Portugal’s leader with Goan Catholic roots; and Leo Varadkar, Ireland’s Taoiseach of Indian-Irish blood. Add at least four more Indian-diaspora giants across Latin America and beyond, each a living proof of outsiders storming the center of power.
This is not about the rise of Indian migrant citizens in the West to positions of power and authority on merit, but instead the decline of Western professed values and the hyporcrisy of the West’s claims to principles of democracy and equality when in fact they do not apply to people not white. And the youth of the West are rebelling against this hypocrisy. But this truth is not so according to the narratives of Murdoch and Bloomberg’s view of the world which supports the worst of them all, White styled middle class feminism.
This is no passing trend. It exposes a deep drought of home-grown talent in the West, trapped in a “white straitjacket” of stale, narrow thinking that offers zero fresh fire or life force.
LAST OF THE WHITE RAJ-THE MS FAVERSHAM OF WESTERN POLITICS
Pauline Hanson: A Fading Echo
Pauline Hanson’s one-note war on immigration, hammered home for over ten years, finally cracks under its own dull repetition like that of conservative Australia’s liberal national coalition. Yet Hanson’s loyal circle oddly swells, even worming into the elite circles it claims to scorn. Someone has to pay the piper, but who will it be before he knocks on their door.
Australia’s Deadly Drift
This lifeless stall, empty of spark or vision, chains the nation down. It sneers at its rising Asian citizens (mostly Indian and Chinese) and carves cruel splits along gender and race. It is the White Australia Policy in polished disguise, in skirts, in the garb of white feminism, a stubborn grip on fading bonds with the UK, US, and old settler outposts, all scrambling for relevance in a multipolar world.
Lagging While Others Leap
Rival nations charge boldly into a reborn global future. Australia, by choice, hauls the dead weight of yesterday’s club, steered by nostalgia, not nerve. Mamdani’s rise in the USA rings out as both warning and wake-up call: history, slow as it grinds, bends toward inclusion, and tosses exclusion’s scraps into the trash heap of a past no one misses.
Brad Stokely
