The Commie trust fund baby lost among people who earn under 50K, while winning those earning more than 50k. The best contemporary arguments against democracy are blue cities.
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- Donald R. McClarey
Donald R. McClarey
Cradle Catholic. Active in the pro-life movement since 1973. Father of three, one in Heaven, and happily married for 43 years. Small town lawyer and amateur historian. Former president of the board of directors of the local crisis pregnancy center for a decade.
The real problem is that people are not being forced to pay the price of their stupid decisions. Once government got to be everybody’s daddy , the expectation was that if bad things happen to you, even if you engaged in behavior that resulted in those bad things happening to you , it was someone else’s fault and you deserve to be bailed out. Banks did it. Investors did it. States and cities are doing it and expect to be bailed out. Having to suffer the consequences of your stupid decisions assures that you won’t do them again. If everyone gets bailed out, they keep doing it because it never costs them. You can rest assured that we’re all going to be forced to pay for the California wildfires and the riots, and many other stupid things that occur in blue states and cities, even though we had nothing to do with those stupid decisions and are powerless to stop them.
Surely “the powers that be” will not allow a socialist Muslim to become Mayor of NYC. 9-11 was only 24 years ago. Surely NYers have long memories.
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I used to work there. Lived in the suburbs thereof. I assure you, New York is fully capable of electing a man like this to mayor.
After Rudy Giuliani saved their bacon (when the bad old days became too bad), the tendency toward sugar daddy, no rules government re-asserted itself – and strengthened with each new mayor.
New York will have to go pretty far down the FAFO rabbit hole before it is willing to seek a sane mayor who will clean house.
This nut case makes Cuomo (who *purposely* ordered Covid patients into nursing homes) look like the saner choice!
Optimist – They’ll hit bottom, then vote in a Republican, then the city will rebound for completely unrelated reasons because cause and effect don’t exist, then they’ll go back and aim for an even lower bottom.
Interesting tangent: Parts of Escape from New York were filmed in run-down sections of the City of St. Louis, in 1981. St. Louis hasn’t gotten any better since then, but rather has gotten worse with each passing day. I last worked downtown in 1997, then was transferred to Texas. We drove through the city on I-44 a couple of years ago, while on vacation, and exited the highway to find some lunch, but downtown was nearly dead at 1 PM on a June weekday. We went on to Collinsville, IL to have lunch, instead. Sad, very sad, what three generations of Democrat hegemony will do to a city.
Frank: Some of the St. Louis buildings used in “Escape” have since been renovated, including the Fox Theater, Union Station, and the Schlafly Tap microbrewery. The Chain of Rocks Bridge (called the “69th Street Bridge” in the movie) across the Mississippi River is still there but open only to pedestrian and (I think) bicycle traffic. Director John Carpenter bought it from the federal government for $1 and then sold it back to them for the same price when filming was done. Other filming locations, including those in East St. Louis IL, are still just as run down as they were then. Carpenter chose ESL as a filming site because a massive fire in 1976 had burned out multiple city blocks, giving it the post-apocalyptic hellscape feel he was looking for.
Again, the First Amendment protects “peaceable assembly”, the rest can be sent to Guantanamo yesterday.