The Failed Socialist Kamikaze Blue State Manifesto

 In the waning years of World War II, Kamikaze pilots, young Japanese aviators often in their late teens or early twenties, undertook harrowing suicide missions, deliberately crashing their explosive-laden aircraft into Allied warships during the Pacific Theater’s final battles like Leyte Gulf and Okinawa. These attacks aimed to inflict maximum damage on enemy fleets, sinking or disabling ships to delay Japan’s inevitable defeat as resources dwindled and Allied forces advanced. Rooted in a culture of intense nationalism, devotion to Emperor Hirohito, and the Bushido code’s ideals of honor and self-sacrifice, pilots showcased both the pilots’ resolve and the extreme measures Japan adopted, leaving a haunting legacy of courage, loss, and the human cost of war. Historically, it has remained a fascination to historians as to why young men with their lives ahead of them destroyed all that they had for the sake of a failed ideal, further complicated by a twisted endeavor in a war they could not win.

However, fast forward to 2025, and we see that the Kamikaze spirit is alive and well in the failed and burdened tri-state area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut. Fighting against their sworn enemy President Donald J. Trump (known as "Trump") , Governors Ned Lamont, Kathy Hochul, and Phil Murphy have draped themselves in a faux Bushido code—more sanctimonious posturing than honor—as they wage their melodramatic crusade against a strong, free, vibrant, and independent America. Like Kamikaze pilots diving headfirst into oblivion, these liberal stalwarts fling themselves into futile battles, clutching their 2021-gun data-sharing pact like a sacred relic, boasting about snagging 28,527 illegal firearms while New York’s streets remain a progressive paradise of chaos. Hochul, with her Rambo fantasies, files lawsuits to save her precious $15 billion congestion pricing boondoggle, shaking her fist at Trump’s “overreach” while her state’s economy groans under her leadership. Meanwhile, King Governor Ned Lamont the Unaccountable continues to throw his state into wreckage and ruin daily when he is not out calling a fakey press conference announcing the throwing of money to strengthen the state against “Washington.” You will never see a discussion in the tri-state area as to how the Trump proposals could help these sick, poor, and battered states. Because the object is to 86-47. You must 86-47 even if you wreck your state and its citizens in the process. For this is the mindset of any good Kamikaze pilot.

But to be an effective Kamikaze pilot, you must have an enemy, and you must hate him. President Trump is obviously a powerful man who must know some dark secrets of politicians and our government since he is so hated by the Democrat Party and the media of our country since he came on the political scene in 2015. Given this premise that everything the President does is wrong/evil/bad/horrific/bad for the economy/kills people/starves people and the like, it is the goal of every good Kamikaze pilot to train acolytes that can play follow the leader to the Socialist death spiral .  This is what you view if you are living in a blue state and if you follow the stoic and controlled state-run media gasping in its final breaths of trying to still be significant you will hear nothing visionary, positive, or constructive. Instead, you will have your ears blitzed every day as to how bad “Trump” is, and we should be thankful every day that we have defenders such as Ned Lamont and Chris Murphy, who fight "Trump" every day for us all. However, if you live in a red state, you probably view President Trump differently and are probably in a much better economic position than your blue state family and friends. You are no doubt happier and better adjusted as well in not hearing the nattering nabobs of negativism and ruin continually.

In any event, here is a "real" example of the tri-state region’s "Blue" on its Kamikaze flight to destruction.

The tri-state region of New Jersey, New York and Connecticut are all Socialist states that spend excessively with massive social and economic problems that continue to increase on a daily basis. Looking at these three states from a local and state tax burden; New York is ranked #2 with a 13.6% tax burden meaning almost 14 cents of every dollar of their income goes to state and local government.   New Jersey is ranked #6 with a 10.3% tax burden meaning 10 cents of every dollar of their income goes to state and local government, while Connecticut is ranked #10 with a 9.9% tax burden meaning almost 10 cents of every dollar of their income goes to state and local government.  This rate does not include their federal tax burden, which further adds to their overall tax burden. (https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-most-taxed-states-in-america/). Red states in most cases have a much lower tax and debt burden.

To “fight Trump” no program will be forsaken and no spending will ever cease. This posture causes untenable and unbearable amounts of debt to be borne by taxpayers. New Jersey's combined local and state government debt is $92,231,421,000 or as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is 14.5%, New York's combined local and state government debt is $358,150,378,000 or as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is 20.2% which ranks first in the country, while Connecticut is ranked #2 with combined local and state government debt is $53,612,594,000 or as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is 18.6%. (https://www.moneytalksnews.com/slideshows/15-states-with-the-most-government-debt-per-capita/) As I have written before Connecticut has $100 to $150 billion dollars in short and low term debt along with its unfunded liabilities (pensions, lifetime benefits, well more than the celebrated “fiscal guardrails”).

But who cares? Fighting Trump is mission critical mass, no matter how much it costs taxpayers.

The 18th Annual Rich States, Poor States report also shows how poorly the tri-state region is doing economically. New York is ranked #50 out of 50 states for its poor economic outlook, New Jersey is ranked #48 out of 50 states for its poor economic outlook and Connecticut rounds it out at #44 out of 50 states for its poor economic outlook.  These rankings are based on 15 policy variables including taxes, debt, minimum wages, workers compensation and being a right to work state.  All three states are doing poorly according to this study on economic competitiveness in our country. (https://alec.org/publication/rich-states-poor-states-18th-edition/)

What does these high taxes and high debt do for these Socialist/Liberal Blue states? Why do we still have increased social problems such as illegal drug abuse with a constant fentanyl crisis, homeless people and an illegal immigrant population that increase more as more is expended?  According to many Kamikaze tri-state politicians, taxes are not nearly high enough and by raising taxes even more these problems will be resolved. In the opinion of many, if you could tax at a 100% rate you still would have the same problems in greater number since there is little to no accountability,  governance, and/or results with the billions being spent on these problems and their attendant programs. 

But given the serial failure of the tri-state area, the objective to destruction may not be a Kamikaze attack but rather, a barbaric trench warfare battle with the destruction of the American way of life as the objective. This is certainly a consideration as the blue tri-state area has now even more extreme socialist/liberal politicians running in upcoming elections led by avowed radical Socialist/Communist, Zohran Mamdani , candidate for Mayor in New York City. His platform should keep New York at the bottom of economic of all economic categories while at the top of all tax categories while any decent and normal-thinking citizen will leave as soon as they possibly can. It is also interesting to note Communist/Socialist/Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (“AOC”) has raised  $15.4 million already for advertising and her 2026 re-election campaign for her New York House seat. But isn't AOC a hypocrite by raising all this money which instead could go to her constituents in her battered and shameful district and/or others in New York City who are homeless, have no food, no childcare, health care and or were victims of violent crimes?

I would not think so. The more human wreckage there is, the more “Trump” can be blamed. The more “Trump” is blamed, the more the Kamikaze mindset is unleashed on those poor weak souls that know no better. With control of the media, this sick strategy produces more debt, more crime, more drug abuse and more physically and mentally destroyed people who become voters for the same wreckage and failure. 

For destroying the lives of people is perfectly acceptable if the right people retain their decrepit empire. This is what "help" is defined as in Socialism.

There  continues to be a strong need to understand the myths and realities of the socialist/liberal blue states of America. It would be refreshing for many if the Republican Party finally began to understand what is taking place and started attacking these failed policies and programs and offer free market alternatives to these wasteful social experiments called state government policy. And mind us all, this is just a small aspect of their failures in solving the problems of these blue Socialist states, excessively high taxes, excessively high debt, and failed command type economic policies.  

Are these the states you really want to live and die in? My guess is that you would have to have the sick and demented mindset of a Kamikaze pilot to answer that particular question in the affirmative.