by Thomas Reiner, Quartz Mountain Commentary, ©2026
(Feb. 5, 2026) — Welcome to the Bizarro World where everything you’ve been told and promised by Socialists, Communists and even those dang Democrats results in the exact opposite based on countless examples of historic reality. These Leftists put the “fair is foul and foul is fair” witches of Macbeth to shame. Let’s take a stroll down both sides of Mamdani’s proclamation. The following are a few of the major members of this clown car using collectivism to ruin their respective States. Unfortunately, there are more petty despots, such as we see in the governance of Illinois, metastasizing because of our failed educational system.
New York City Mayor Mamdani’s “warmth of collectivism” is freezing to death. Where prior mayors prepared for annual snow storms, this Brave New Mayor’s sputum of Communist Manifestos and lack of action are causing the homeless to die in the streets, the garbage to pile up and rats to live the life of Riley. Words are easy, but actions are difficult. Smuggy has only been a mayor for a month and this is a preview of the Socialist Paradise coming to the knuckleheads and Useful Idiots who voted for him. Have a nice day because he is just getting started to destroy New York City, and his sycophants likewise in New York State.
In the spirit of The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, everyone already knows of The Great Minnesota Fraud and Minneapolis Insurrection instigated by Governor Waltzing Walz. His warmth of collectivism stems from his honeymoon and thirty trips to Communist China. That warmth also comes from probable cash kickbacks from the $10-18 billion fraud and cash flights to Somalia that “somehow” went undetected during his administration.
These two pikers dwarf in comparison to California and Governor Newsom and the One Party Soviet that controls California in perpetuity. Even larger fraud as high as $34 billion is beginning to be uncovered there. Additionally, the abandonment of the thousands of homeowners who experienced the warmth of collectivism fueled by the Pacific Palisades fire. They are being collectively prevented from rebuilding to make way for high-density rent-controlled housing. This sounds pretty cold to educated people. Newsom’s collectivism has destroyed the education and health systems. Don’t forget the $16 billion of collective taxpayer money spent on the high speed train with zero high speed rail laid in 17 years. Over a million taxpayers, including billionaires, have fled this grinder for less frigidity states. One wonders why.
The main problem with collectivism is the removal of individual responsibility and reward by bowing down on one’s knees to the State, 1984 style. Why bother busting your butt when you can let the other guy shovel the stuff? After all, the resulting lack of rewards is the same for both. In the now defunct Soviet Union, there used to be a saying by the proletariat about their frigid collectivism, “We pretend to work and they pretend to pay us.” The lie of the warmth of collectivism struck again.
Let’s flip over to the other side of the coin about “the frigidity of rugged individualism.” “Rugged individualism” is actually a red-hot way to better one’s life for yourself, your family and your country. This is precisely what has set America apart from all other nations. Mamdani’s trick is for him to attain power from the Useful Idiots by quashing initiative. It has the same consequences as his collectivism remark.
Now for the good news. Welcome to the Second Reich of President Trump. Those of you who haven’t yet been called a Nazi need to goose-step up your love of Capitalism and free enterprise. Rugged individualism is the rocket fuel of capitalism which has lifted more people out of poverty in the history of the world than any other system. America is blessed with President Trump who is leading the charge to rebuild our economy from the structural rot caused by DEI and other Progressive blitzkriegs.
It is puzzling why so many Americans actually hate this great man. Although admittedly gruff, he is like a stern father to his wayward children who refuse to grow up and take responsibility. Dad will not be around forever but his learned lessons will. He is teaching us to be leaders imbued with the warmth resulting from rugged individualism. Just ask John Wayne, pilgrim. It is time to pick up that shovel to bury the myth of collectivism.
Author’s note: I am among those who have been accused of being a Nazi and a (gasp) German although I have been a red-blooded American my whole life. Fair is foul and foul is fair.
Collectivists would have you believe there is strength and safety in numbers. History has shown that is only the case for those groups that control the means of producing that which others need – unionized workers in private industry. Over a half-century ago, when collective bargaining laws enabled public employee unionization, widespread expansion of the essentially a anti/non-productive voting block was enabled and captured. Was it only a coincidence that much of our industry was shipped overseas and their unions destroyed relatively shortly thereafter? Where does, or more appropriately should, that leave unionized government workers, especially the anti-American indoctrinating teachers now?
Decades ago, my Muni-gov’t employer correctly determined that I am a “results-oriented” individual. [if I am “rugged,” it is only because “Iron sharpens iron.” Thank you God for allowing me to find my purpose in life with City of Los Angeles!] Since then I have been compartmentalized, denied any opportunity in employment and otherwise openly retaliated against. Thank you, Lord. My life is good.
The Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the California law enacted in 1968 that governs labor-management relations for public employees, resulted in the unionization of and protection for fat cat, bureaucrat, management personnel. In turn, they provided protection, in the form of plausible deniability, for at-will, status quo department/bureau heads that are predominately anti-American in thought and deed. While I am speaking of what I have lived and witnessed, the undisputable fact is that government at most, if not every level, has been turned upside down in the same manner. They have become self-serving, status quo centered systems where no one is held accountable for their adverse actions, bad faith or results that consistently contradict logic and the positive statements contained within their given mission statements. One word that is thrown about comes immediately to mind, but there are many others: Transparency. A plantation mentality, “You get paid good money to shut-up and do as you are told,” has absolutely come to prevail.
Hopefully, the pendulum has begun to swing the other way and has time to recenter on that which our forefathers and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice for – The USA vis-á-vis our Constitution. Yes, the constitution and those who support its intent are at the center and not on the “Right.”
A group is only as strong as its members who are able, and allowed to, critically think for and express themselves, act as rugged individuals. Hopefully, the multitude of those who wish to produce, and provide for their families, will once again gain the right to do so. And those who would stand in the way of productive labor by the citizens of our land, and the original intent of our Constitution, will be lost to the sands of time.
Thank you for your attention to this matter!