Op-ed: 

Why Mamdani Really Won

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor

The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google   

...A “nepo baby” indeed for Zohran Mamdani has failed at almost everything he previously attempted. For example, the now mayor failed at being a rapper (gag me please), a musician; and even a low level political campaign manager. In fact, since 2014, the year Mamdani graduated from Bowdoin College with a degree in African Studies, he has only been gainfully employed for a mere three years. Says a lot now doesn't it...says a lot the media all but ignored... says a lot about Mamdani not having any tangible qualifications to be mayor...says a lot about the man who considers himself to be but a political “demigod”  of sorts. How so... because Zohran Mandani fits the very definition of one, as in he who seeks political support and power by appealing to popular desires, prejudices, and fears rather than by using rational arguments and tangible realities to attract supporters. Read entire article and see video here.

Op-ed: 

Why Mamdani Really Won 

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor

 The article posted here is the authors opinion alone, and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google  

“I look at London, where you have a terrible mayor, terrible, terrible mayor, and it's been changed, it's been so changed.”

- President Trump's truthful words spoken during his September 2025 address to the U.N. General Assembly.

As I write this, it's now been almost a week since Democrat Socialist (read communist here), islamist condoning, and liar extraordinaire Zohran Mamdani was elected as New York City's mayor, thus allowing me time to think about and digest not only the facts as to the whys he was elected mayor, but the sure to come ramifications as well. And know these ramifications will affect not just New York City itself, but the entirety of our beloved America as well...one just has to look to the United Kingdom and see London as their nation's sad truth.

So let me start by stating the fact that if NewYorkers had done the right thing and voted using common sense and logic; if New Yorkers had voted based upon the candidate's merits, abilities, and workable solutions for New York City's sadly growing list of problems, the city's now sure to come downfall...which has actually started as wealthy New Yorkers start permanently heading south...might well have been avoided.

Simply, if Curtis Sliwa, the Republican, would have been elected mayor not only would he fight to make what is broken right, but New York City would surely herald back to the days when Rudi Giuliani was mayor...as in New York's streets would again be safe; crime numbers would quickly drop; and a sense of pride would return to what is New Yorkers hometown.

But unfortunately, as is usually the case, the misplaced lure of freebies, handouts, and their ignoring the free-for-all criminal chaos going unpunished, peppered the voters choice instead, as did the “R” placed after Sliwa's name. And all this together helped to bring out, en-mass, the multitude of young indoctrinated “Trump Derangement Syndrome” voters, thus allowing antisemite Zohran Mandani to become mayor instead.

And also, in my opinion...an opinion that might raise the ire of some...is that part of the blame for Curtis Sliwa not becoming New York City's mayor should, in part, be placed squarely on Republican political leaders shoulders. Why so...because the Republican hierarchy...neither on the city, the state, nor the federal level...publicly stood behind and/or officially endorsed Curtis Sliwa's candidacy nor did they recognize his many past accomplishments. And that, sadly, includes President Trump who has, at times, publicly endorsed or at least thrown his outward support behind lesser known, lower level Republican candidates running in non-national elections, but here he did not. 

But in all fairness, I must add that before the election President Trump did publicly state that he would slash New York City's $7 billion in federal funding if Zohran Mamdani did became mayor...a promise I know he will now surely keep. 

And what exactly were some of Curtis Sliwa's many accomplishments that were ignored, unmentioned, or simply went unnoticed? How about the fact that Sliwa helped in the creating and founding of the “Guardian Angels” a world renown, non-uniformed, citizen patrol organization that helps police combat crime and violence in New York City and elsewhere, but whose “Guardian Angels” adjunct programs has helped in not only the creating of after-school programs for troubled teens, but has advocated for policies related to all important public safety and fair housing for all, as well as being an animal rights advocate, and radio talk show host.

Also, when younger, Curtis Sliwa created one of the first U.S. recycling centers when he was just 14 years old, and at age 15 Sliwa put his own life in danger when he heroically rescued a family from a burning building .

These are but a few examples of Curtis Sliwa's many accomplishments... accomplishments that show the true character of the man. And it does so while at the same time exposing Mamdani's lack of character, lack of experience, and lack of tangible successes. These are the very type of accomplishments of a man...a no nonsense, civic minded, American patriot...who most surely would have succeeded as mayor “had he been elected.”

Four little words that must also share in part by others. Remember, Curtis Sliwa's loss does also partially lie at the feet of “big money” Republican donors who did not rally behind Sliwa no matter their knowing that New York City is our nation;s and the world's financial capital, and could well affect their own pocketbooks. How so...because Mamdani promised throughout the campaign to “raise taxes on the rich” in order to give their money to those with their hands out for even more “free stuff.”

And with campaigns costing money...lots of money...especially when running in a high profile city like New York City, this combined with all that was previously stated is a big part of why Curtis Sliwa lost whether some want to believe it or not. And also know that his campaign hit a major roadblock when many prominent New York City Republicans urged Sliwa to drop out of the race so as to give New York's former Governor Andrew Cuomo at least a chance of beating Mamdani.

But what these misguided folks did not take into account is that the majority of hardcore Curtis Sliwa supporters would stay faithful to their man on principal even while knowing that sometimes one might be faced with having to vote for the lesser of two evils.

And such was the case with Andrew Cuomo who served eleven years as governor only to resign in disgrace due to sexual harassment allegations being leveled against him...that man only switched parties to run for mayor as an “independent” because ever so unwise New York gives a candidate a second chance in the general election if they lost their primary's nomination. Pandering to a bunch of thumb sucking, liberal Democrat crybabies is more like it I'd say. But forgotten by Cuomo in his party switch is the fact that “independent candidates” never draw big numbers in “blue Democrat states” like New York, and probably never will.

Sliwa supporters...and while I'm a Floridian and not a New Yorker I wholeheartedly did support Curtis Sliwa's run for mayor...knew that the former governor...who was somewhat successful in that role up until both his covid nursing home fiasco and sexual allegations...was not a terrorist condoning, Palestinian supporting, anti-Israel, antisemitic hater nor was he the proponent of either socialism or communism...would have been a better choice than Zohran Mamdani for mayor. Why so...because they also knew that Andreew Cuomo was just as ruthless, cunning, and underhanded as is now Mayor Zohran Mamdani, but that he was just a bit better at hiding his many political and private faux pas than was Mamdani.

Simply stated, in the minds of many Curtis Sliwa's supporters...a vote for Andrew Cuomo...no matter Trump's endorsement...would most definitely be but a vote for the lesser of two evils. And here I do applaud them...no matter the outcome...for they stood behind their principals and core values, something we need more of in these most trying of times. And it's these very times that now sees Uganda born Zohran Mamdani, the self professed, foolishly proud to be “nepo baby”...as in one who has achieved what they consider to be success based solely on account of having a well-known, wealthy, and/or influential parent or relative...having become New York City mayor.

A “nepo baby” indeed for Zohran Mamdani has failed at almost everything he previously attempted. For example, the now mayor failed at being a rapper (gag me please), a musician; and even a low level political campaign manager. In fact, since 2014, the year Mamdani graduated from Bowdoin College with a degree in African Studies, he has only been gainfully employed for a mere three years. Says a lot now doesn't it...says a lot the media all but ignored... says a lot about Mamdani not having any tangible qualifications to be mayor...says a lot about the man who considers himself to be but a political “demigod” of sorts. How so... because Zohran Mandani fits the very definition of one, as in he who seeks political support and power by appealing to popular desires, prejudices, and fears rather than by using rational arguments and tangible realities to attract supporters.

And yet this is the man New Yorkers foolishly elected to run not just America's financial center, but its media, and cultural center as well. This is the city whose residents will now bear witness to even more far left progressives, avowed socialists, all-out communists, and overt antisemites* being appointed by Mamdani to help him run both New York City's political and monetary machine...talk about a fast walk into Hell.

“My aunt did not feel safe in hijab after 9/11.” - Zohran Mamdani pre-election words claiming that his aunt and folks like her were 9/11's true victims.

And with those words having been spoken in the week or so before the actual election took place, the liar that is Zohran Mamdani (as per the just mentioned words about his hajib wearing aunt who was, in actuality, his father's cousin, and who was not in the U.S. at the time of 9/11 or even in its immediate aftermath), still got elected even after his having defamed and dishonored the 3000 Americans whose very lives were stolen from them by those the now new mayor obviously condones and considers to be his muslim brethren. If that's not an overt slap in the face to the city and the people he now leads I don't know what is.

And to that I will add that with this election having gone to the man who deems himself to be a Democrat Socialist when in reality he's a communist... any New Yorker no matter their race, their political party, or their religious affiliation or lack thereof who voted for this man to be mayor should be ashamed of themselves. Why so...because the lies Mamdani spewed and the promises he made while campaigning were but pages torn directly from the communist manifesto. And it's these pages alone that will dictate New York City's and hence all New Yorkers everyday soon to come dangerous new norms for the next four long years, Simply, as New York City starts to fall those who voted for him will have no one to blame but themselves.

Sadly, New Yorkers have spoken whether we on the right like the outcome or not, but do know that in their voting for abject communism New Yorkers literally did throw away both the liberties and freedoms that our Constitutional republic had afforded them...something they likely did not bother to take into consideration. And so with this outcome having reset the ticking clock that will now signal New York City's likely downfall, what the rest of “We the People” can possibly hope for is that what New York City will become is but a road map to a road that is best never taken.

And if we see that particular truth with our eyes wide open, and while New York City might indeed become our version of London, it just might help we patriots to strengthen what is and must remain our Constitutional republic... Zohran Mamdani and his communist loving cohorts be damned. Case closed.

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* Two of Mamdani's overtly antisemitic acts include that as a college student he led an Israeli academic boycott, and as an Assembly member Mamdani was one of five persons who did not sign resolutions condemning the Holocaust and honoring Israel's Independence Day.

Copyright © 2025 Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.. 

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Op-ed:

“Moving Forward”...A Continuing Disaster

By: Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / Right Side Patriots / Right Side Patriots Radio

The Op-ed posted here is this authors opinion alone,and does not necessarily represent the views of blogspot.com or Google 

I'm writing this op-ed as a warning...if you will...to the blind following, indoctrinated Democrat masses, the remaining “Never Trumpers,” and the still undecided Independents all of whom, for whatever reason, do not understand just how critical this November's election really is. Simply, we are not just voting for a new president and vice president per se, but we are actually voting for either our great “Constitutional Republic” surviving intact or for a return to the sum of first eight disastrous years when everything was all about “Hope and Change.” Then we got a four year break as America shone bright again thanks to President Trump's policies...only to be replaced by these past disastrous Biden/Harris four years where America's future might now, sadly, lie within the single word “Forward.” And what is “Forward” but Obama's no longer veiled “fundamental transformation of America.”

Now with “Forward” having been re-branded into “Moving Forward” and/or “A New Way Forward” by Kamala Harris' handlers, what Harris' presidential campaign really is, is but a front...in my opinion...for the candidacy of Obama's no longer being veiled, “fourth term in office” where we will see said “fundamental transformation” reaching its final fruition. And what is said fruition but “socialism” replacing “capitalism,” and then “communism” replacing “socialism,” where at this point “Big Brother is watching you” will take on an even more dubious and sinister meaning.

And while the word “Forward” does seem innocuous at first, as in the dictionary meaning of “being relating to or concerned with the future,” what most folks ignore or simply are oblivious to is the fact that “Forward” in what is these uncertain times does even now tend to have a more sinister political meaning. “Forward” today, in my opinion, is but the moniker for the Obama controlled Democrat hierarchy helping to advance an ideology that they know well will do harm to the very fabric of our nation, “We the People,” and the freedoms our Constitution affords us, and yet they simply don't care if it does.

In fact, the word “Forward” being included in Kamala Harris' campaign slogan is, in my opinion but her veiled forewarning that reeks of what is her having politically embraced that which is economic Marxism itself. And why not as it runs in her family for Harris' father, Donald J. Harris, a retired Stanford University professor with decidedly Marxist leanings, has not only written a number of economic articles relating to his Marxists held views of  “capitalism,” but in 1978 Harris wrote a book entitled, “Capital Accumulation and Income Distribution” in which he negatively criticized mainstream economic theories concerning the effects of “capitalism” and “capital accumulation” on what he called...and what Kamala herself still calls...“income inequality.” Simply, Kamala Harris is the perfect example of the apple not falling far from the proverbial Marxist apple tree.

The economically based Marxist theories of old now seem to have Kamala Harris' fingerprints all over them including in her proposed economic plan, and even if she was to become president said plan still reeks of her father's misplaced economic theories. And when such is fronted by her “Moving Forward” rhetoric, the rhetoric itself becomes but the latest incarnation of not just her father's ramblings but of Obama's as well. 

And with Harris' inclusion of the word “forward” in almost all her campaign slogans we see the key groundwork being laid...as it was when the word first began being used back in the mid-1800's by radical socialist, communist, and left-wing newspapers and publications...as but an updated attempt to try to sell to the general public...the public not understanding how a truly successful economy works...the idea that western style capitalism's days are numbered and that, in time, it will be replaced first by socialism and then eventually by communism itself, the very theory expressed by Harris' own father in his aforementioned book.

So as Kamala Harris...the anything but I believe Obama/Pelosi anointed candidate...the woman who did not garner even a single primary vote...along with her horrific VP choice Tim Walz...the man who has in the past sung the Chinese communist dictatorship's praises in relation to the Chines governments actions relating to Tienanmen Square...now sees the word “Forward,” in my opinion, to mean but a forced march into into the deep and dark abyss that is “socialism.” “Socialism” where the government will start controlling every aspect of our lives, with just one example being where we shop, when we shop, what and how much we buy, and what we pay for it. Simply, consumer rationing per family unit.

And when in time “socialism” could well become the accepted new norm of the indoctrinated masses, Kamala Harris will then, again in my opinion, help in “Moving Forward” what was our beloved America into a new “one size fits all” style of communism that is the hallmark of a truly defeated people...a people who will likely march in lockstep, follow the rules, questioning nothing, while those now in power continue laughing all the way to the way proverbial bank with full mind control safely in hand.

Think I'm kidding...I'm not...for what was a political coup was perpetrated right before “We the People's” eyes and sadly we accepted it, but the question is why? Yes, Joe Biden remains a disaster as president; the Biden/Harris administration...in my opinion... still is rife with corruption as Obama still seems to be the one in control of our government; our southern border remains nowhere near secure; crime numbers continue increasing across the country most especially in “blue” cities and states; our economy overall remains unstable at best as prices on groceries and at the pump continue to increase to the point where many Americans are being forced to choose between purchasing gas to get to work or buying groceries to feed their families; and where on the international front we no longer can be trusted to stand strong with our allies against those out to do harm to us all.

So “yes” a change of leadership is desperately needed, but what's needed is a change “backwards” to four years ago when our economy soared; we were energy independent; the world's “bad actors” were kept in check; our southern border was at least somewhat secured; and where the call “Moving Forward” was not being fronted by the very woman who claims that her “values have not changed” but only that certain of her “positions” have.

Simply, reality itself dictates that one cannot have it both ways for a true and trusted leader's “values” should always align with their “positions” taken, for “positions” and “values” are deeply entwined together within ones inner character. To suddenly “flip-flop” ones long held positions does indeed “flip” ones core values along with it, especially when it concerns ones publicly presented persona. And it does so whether the person involved believes it or not.

And as for herr so-called “Campaign of Joy”...Kamala Harris' not unexpected “flips” are easily being exposed as being done solely for political expediency alone...as in a not so cleverly crafted vote garnering operation. Deliberately divisive in its very concept, her “joy” tries to mask Harris' ignoring the economic suffering many Americans are facing today. And with an ever present “Joker” of a smile plastered across her face...cardinal rule: never trust anyone who smiles continuously... Kamala Harris continues to relish in spewing lies about Donald Trump being a threat to American democracy...the very thing we are not now nor has our country ever been...we are a constitutional based “republic”...and how “We the People” must “fear” a second Trump presidency. And her words are not so unlike Obama's words spoken when his first “anointed” one...as in Hillary Clinton...ran against what was then the untested Donald J. Trump in 2016.

But what else would you expect from Kamala Harris... the woman, I believe, is totally unprepared let alone qualified to hold the office of the presidency. And yet, as long as Harris happily continues to dance on the puppet controlled strings of the very man who launched his first “hopeful” political campaign from what was the living room of two “Weather Underground” members, Harris still stands a chance of becoming Obama's so “hoped” for fourth term in office. And if that doesn't scare you, it very well should.

Why so...because all-important honest and fair elections seem to be but a thing of the past as the casting of votes along with the tabulation of said votes still is rife with problems. Early voting, mail-in ballots, and not needing voting ID to vote...as in being a U.S. citizen as required by the Constitution...adds to the problem for these instances are where most voter fraud occurs. And yet even after what was, what many still believe, the stolen election of 2020 these problems have not been fixed...in fact they are still growing especially in all-important “swing” states while Republicans sadly keep infighting amongst themselves.

But what's saddest of all is that our Republican party over these past four years did little to nothing to help restore election integrity as they were trying to unite the pro-Trump/anti-Trump factions within the party. They suspected, as did most of us, that Joe Biden would be replaced as head of the ticket for the Democrats did little to hide that fact. And with Obama's ever present shadow still holding the reigns of his party's power, so to speak, along with his veiled support for Kamala Harris going way back to her failed 2020 presidential primary run...she was tagged as being the willing next target for his all-encompassing control.

The Republican hierarchy should have seen the handwriting on the proverbial wall. I just hope that all Republicans and Conservatives coupled with moderate Democrats and the still undecided Independent voters...the remaining “Never Trumpers” still seem as spiteful as ever...ask yourselves this question: Are you happy with the economy, the border, and increasing crime numbers? And if your answer is “no,” I hope you come out in droves to vote a straight Republican ticket, thus helping to prevent what would be a Harris/Walz administration controlled by the very man who, I believe, remains the “ground zero” touch point of almost all the problems our country still faces today. Case closed.

Copyright © 2024 / Diane Sori / The Patriot Factor / All rights reserved.

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For more political commentary please visit my RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS partner Craig Andresen's blog The National Patriot to read his latest article, Commie Kamala’s Campaign is Crumbling.

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RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS...LIVE!                                           

Tomorrow, Tuesday, September 10th from 7-8:30pm EST, RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS Craig Andresen and Diane Sori discuss 'Moving Forward...A Continuing Disaster'; 'Commie Kamala’s Campaign is Crumbling'; and important news of the day. Hope you can tune in to RIGHT SIDE PATRIOTS on https://rspradio1.com Click 'LISTEN LIVE' starting at 6:50pm EST, show begins at 7pm EST.