New York City is preparing to plunge itself back into the medieval ages once again. As with most topics, this is not an ‘expert’ opinion for me, nor am I a local. It’s the vantage point of a weary external observer again wondering what’s wrong with these people. My guess is that it’s the same with most other outsiders watching the NYC scene. As for the insiders, we all know that most of them are libtards, which is putting it kindly because a lot are actually far worse; like Maoist, collectivists, identitarians, leeches, hordes of indescribably corrupt party pimps milking the city coffers dry, so on and so forth. Most of them are loud and proud about their vice. For them, government is the gift that they keep taking from, and taking, and taking, to hell with anyone else. There are two kinds of parasites, the ones that coexist with their host and never damage it below a certain threshold and then there are ones that would eat it until it’s an oozing corpse collapsing around themselves. Those are the preponderance of voters now clamoring for Mandami.
I remember NYC in the bad ol days; seedy Times Square, dirty, dangerous, broke. I visited occasionally but mostly read it in the news. Guiliani turned the city around. Bloomberg maintained it, and DeBlasio did all he could to destroy that work. He was mostly successful at it. Adams held the promise of turning the city back but largely failed, is widely believed to be corrupt, all smoke and no fire, all talk and no action and yet his boosters still talk him up like he’ll deliver someday. His credentials rest solely in who he is not and what he is not. Well at least he didn’t totally cave to Biden’s vision of destruction for the city. He’s not nearly as bad as Mandami would be. Trump thinks he’s worthwhile to prop up as an alternative to all the other losers in the race. Stellar.
The choices facing NYC are Zolran Mandami, Andrew Cuomo, Eric Adams, and Republican Curtis Sliwa. Mandami is a known quantity; far left and no government experience or work experience or professional experience, promising instant devastation to the city which a mindless majority of NYC voters think would be a good thing, according to the polls. They hear his radical leftist, redistributionist, lawless, commie talk which has been relatively plain, straightforward, and then boldly say, “I want that”. [Queue stunned silent pause]
Cuomo, experienced, past libtard credentials, Adam’s level of corruption or worse, but he’s not communist. Bzzzt! Disqualified.
Adams, I’m not the other guys.
This brings us to Sliwa, a Republican. On the one hand his party equals hopeless as per conventional wisdom, except that two of the last four mayors were also Republican and were credited with running NYC about as good as it got, at least during my lifetime. So what’s wrong with Sliwa? That’s what I’d like to know. Apparently, he’s been an effective do-gooder helping people at street level; he’s Batman in Gotham with just a different schtick. And yet he doesn’t inspire any confidence in anybody. Here’s the outsider in me talking: Someone that must constantly wear a red costume, especially the red beret, can never be taken seriously, not by an outsider, and apparently not insiders either. I once commented on social media about this by calling him Pepe LePew. Some woman got very angry at me. I don’t know his policy positions which is a problem because I have a pretty good general understanding of where the others stand; the point being I haven’t ‘researched’ any of them so why is his message the only one a mystery? I assume its mainstream Republican or the NYC version, equivalent to a garden-variety old-style Democrat but who knows. Trump he is not, nor is he a Guiliani or a Bloomberg – obviously. This is Sliwa’s 2nd go-round for Mayor, so maybe try something different here, yeah?
Perhaps my real question should not be, ‘What’s wrong with Sliwa?’ but, What’s wrong with the Republican Party in New York City and New York State? Republicans are about 1 in 5 of New York City’s voters but in a city that big, isn’t there someone bold, enterprising, young, really good looking, opinionated Republican, that they could PAY to say ‘I told you so’ after every Democrat fiasco? It’s not like New York City and state has never had history of putting forth national caliber Republican leadership. It might take a couple of election cycles but sooner or later, the people of NYC are going to want to wake up after a night of being violently abused and decide that they can do better for themselves once again.
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