In the recent elections across New York City, Virginia, and New Jersey, Democrats won with authority. New York City saw record turnout, the highest since the late 1960s, and voters chose a self-described socialist as mayor. In Virginia and New Jersey, Democrats captured large margins across the board, buoyed by strong youth turnout and shifting coalitions.

What’s striking isn’t simply geography—it’s the mindset. Voters in traditionally blue areas are now voting from a belief that government is the ultimate problem-solver. It marks a cultural transition from valuing freedom and responsibility to expecting authority and control. That change says more about the nation’s spiritual condition than its political one.

Younger, college-educated, urban voters led the way. Exit polls show overwhelming majorities under 30 aligning with Democratic candidates, citing the cost of living and housing as their biggest concerns. They ignore that it is Democratic Party policies on illegal immigration that drove those economic issues.

Moral character or personal conduct no longer weigh as heavily. In Virginia, one candidate who had once wished death upon an opponent still sailed to victory. The reaction? Indifference. It’s as if people have accepted that outrage, division, and even hostility are normal parts of political discourse. The louder and more aggressive the rhetoric, the more “authentic” it feels.

The danger is that this kind of moral dullness doesn’t stay in politics. It bleeds into the culture itself.

The deeper question is spiritual. When citizens look to government as their provider and protector, they trade in freedom for dependency. Every time the state expands to “solve” life’s struggles, it fills a void once meant for faith, family, and community.

Socialism thrives when people believe government is their savior. Communism follows when faith in God disappears altogether. What we are seeing in these elections is not just political realignment, it’s spiritual surrender.

The greatest threat to liberty isn’t oppression; it’s apathy dressed as security. When the people no longer discern between good and evil, right and wrong, truth and propaganda, they invite tyranny wrapped in compassion.

So, is this a glimpse of what’s to come?

Possibly. The pattern is clear: educated urban voters embracing state control as moral progress. The irony is that those who fear “fascism” are ushering in the very system that suppresses freedom. When government replaces God, it redefines morality, truth, and justice to suit its needs.

The moral of this story is simple but sobering: freedom demands faith, and faith demands discernment.

A people who depend on government for everything will eventually lose everything—including their freedom.

2 Corinthians 3:17 sums it up: “Where the Spirit of the LORD is, there is freedom.”

Otherwise, the darkness of tyranny absorbs the souls of mankind.

 Sources:

Breitbart – “What Mamdani’s Victory Reveals About America’s New Class Politics”

Washington Post – “How Voters Shifted in Virginia, New Jersey, and New York Elections”

AP News – “Voters Prioritize the Economy Above Immigration and Crime in Election 2025”

Politico – “NYC Will See Highest Turnout in Decades”

The Guardian – “Where the Vote for Mamdani Was Strongest in New York City”

Tufts University – “Young Voters Power Mamdani Victory, Shape Key 2025 Elections”

ABC News – “Keys to Democrats’ Sweep of the 2025 Elections”

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New York City voters chose Zohran Mamdani, a self-described democratic socialist and the city’s first Muslim mayor. NYC is the nation’s most populous city, scarred by the 9/11 Islamic terror attack, and now led by a politician whose record on Israel and Hamas is more than alarming.

In the campaign’s closing weeks, Mamdani refused to say Hamas should disarm and even doubled down on a vow to arrest Israel’s prime minister if he visited New York. That’s not normal city-business chatter. They’re worldview markers. When the keys of America’s financial and media capital are handed to a movement openly hostile to God and the Constitution, there are significant prophetic consequences for America.

Six years ago, this column warned that the Democratic Party was fast identifying as a socialist party. That wasn’t hyperbole; it was pattern recognition. The playbook is classic Hegelian drift: thesis (constitutional republic and markets), antithesis (state-managed “equity”), synthesis (soft-command economics with hard cultural enforcement). Read the Communist Manifesto, and you see the blueprint that socialism keeps walking toward: abolish private property, centralize credit and transport, replace eternal truths with ideology, and abolish religion.

When government becomes god, liberty withers, people lose the right to be wrong, and the state claims the authority to make you “right.” America’s promise is the opposite: God-given rights, limited government, and a civil society strong enough to correct itself without crushing dissent.

There’s also a documented ideological ecosystem behind the curtain. In 2007, during the Dallas Holy Land Foundation terror trial, prosecutors introduced the Muslim Brotherhood’s “Explanatory Memorandum,” which described a “Civilization-Jihadist process” to “eliminate and destroy Western civilization from within,” listing US fronts to embed and influence. While not every Muslim in public life is an Islamist, every responsible citizen should know the doctrine and the networks that seek leverage inside free societies to exploit liberty and replace it with tyranny.

New York’s choice matters because influence radiates from that city into finance, media, academia, and policy. Put a movement hostile to Israel, religious liberty, and market freedom at the helm, and the shockwaves run national in a hurry.

For example, Democrats logged big nights in Virginia and New Jersey. California voters advanced a redistricting measure favored by the socialist left—momentum that pushes America further toward statism. Add the steady drumbeat of violent language from national Democratic figures, and you have a convergence point: radical socialism using the ballot and promoting violence to gain the bureaucracy, the classroom, the justice system, and the church.

Socialism is communism with better branding, and communism banishes faith by design. America is rushing toward a danger zone where abandoning the God-honoring principles that grounded our liberty will carry prophetic consequences.

Proverbs 14:34 says, “Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.”

Time to stand, speak truth, and defend the Republic while we still can.

Sources

AP: Mamdani elected NYC mayor. (AP News)

AJC statement on Mamdani’s rhetoric. (AJC)

Times of Israel: Mamdani declines to say Hamas should lay down arms; vows to arrest Netanyahu. (The Times of Israel)

Guardian live: Democrats notch wins in VA/NJ; California redistricting measure noted. (The Guardian)

Fox News live: National 2025 results roundup (NYC, VA). (Fox News)

Investigative Project—Explanatory Memorandum (Muslim Brotherhood, 1991). (The Investigative Project on Terrorism)

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