New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani is an amazing politician, and why not? He's been groomed for the job since he was a kid.
This means he's very good at political speak. Everything that comes out of his mouth sounds honeyed, but then you get it down, and the stomach ache is more than you can bear.
His Independence Day address is one of those moments.
If you haven't seen it yet, you can watch it below. Thankfully, the account that reposted it quoted him verbatim, so you don't have to listen to it if you don't want to.
America is exceptional because, here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence still endures. And that work belongs to us all.
Zohran Mamdani: America is exceptional because, here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence still endures. And that work belongs to us all. pic.twitter.com/RuynOtRRZY
— FactPost (@factpostnews) July 3, 2026
Translate this from Communist Democrat Politician language to standard English, and you get something more sinister.
Let's start from the beginning.
"Nothing is fixed in place."
Wrong. The Constitution makes it pretty clear that there are quite a few things fixed in place. Free speech, gun ownership, and various protections from the government. You know and love it.
The thing is, for a communist, the American Constitution is their most hated enemy. It sets our rights so high on the shelf that if they wanted to bring them down, they'd have to invade Heaven to get them, and that's not happening. The second method to bring your rights into the dirt is to make everyone stop believing they have rights. Therefore, "Nothing is fixed in place." Anything can be moved, including your rights.
Mamdani is telling you he has no respect for your God-given rights without outright saying it. It's a common pattern with leftists, especially the more eloquent ones. Talk as if the Constitution doesn't exist, and perhaps people will forget about it. Eventually, they'll vote to have their rights removed because they don't recall ever having them in the first place.
"The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the Moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence still endures."
This part is a bit more sly. On the surface, it seems he's talking about unknown parts of America our ancestors traversed to reach the West Coast, or the Western migration that filled those lands with settlers. If he was talking about that, then he'd be right, but he throws in the Moon, which clues you in to what he really means.
What he's trying to sell you on is that there is no uniting mission that we can bend our passion and will toward... except "fulfilling the values enshrined in the Declaration of Independence."
Firstly, that's a lie. The Moon is still a frontier. Just going there isn't going to cut it. We need to master it, utilize it, and learn what we can in the process. Then, beyond that is the vacuum of space, where we can learn untold things about the universe we live in, and just beyond that is Mars, the next planet we will be colonizing if we can keep our eye on the ball. Humanity will never run out of frontiers, and as I've written in the past, you should fervently hope we never do.
Having a frontier is healthy for us in so many ways.
Read: Mankind Needs a Frontier
But I digress. What Mamdani, like many leftists, is trying to do is to make our collective attention focus on fulfilling a set of "values." What values? The ones enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. You can't disagree with that, because Americans consider that document just a few inches south of holy.
But Mamdani is really only focused on very specific parts of that document, and even then, he has a very different interpretation of what those words mean than you do. People like him love the line "All men are created equal." In fact, that's more or less the only line they like. They don't want to hear about God giving you unalienable rights, liberty, or abolishing a government that's become too overbearing. Best just to focus on the virtue of equality.
And we're never going to be equal until some people in America are more equal than others.
"And that work belongs to us all."
That sounds like he's asking you to work toward a better future.
He's not.
He's pressuring you to submit to his definition of all of this via a false sense of virtue. Get on board with whatever he has planned because if you don't, you're just the worst kind of person.
Once you can competently translate a radical leftist politician, you can't unhear the reality behind their words.
