Posted on 04/27/2021 3:01:21 PM PDT by Rummyfan
“The people have spoken,” said former New York City Mayor Ed Koch after the Democratic mayoral primary of 1989, “and they must be punished.”
The understandably bitter Koch had just been defeated by David Dinkins and was bidding his farewell to politics. And in fact, the people were punished: The one-term Dinkins, who defeated Rudy Giuliani in the general election that year to become the city’s first black mayor, saw crime soar on his impeccably tailored watch, with murders hitting a high of 2,605 the following year.
Four years later, even the Upper West Side had had enough and called the cops, in the form of Giuliani and his police chief, Bill Bratton.
Still, there was a hidden grain of truth in Koch’s famous crack: There is a vindictive element to Democrat electoral politics, especially in the 30 years since Hizzoner left Gracie Mansion. As the parties have polarized, a destructive element has entered our politics, and with malice aforethought. This will not end well.
There’s always been a certain amount of pendulum swing in the peculiar version of “democracy” known as our republican form of government. Everyone runs against the “other guy,” the party in power, the Swamp, and yet too often—as with Mark Twain’s famous crack about the weather—nobody really does anything about it.
For all the talk, the comfortable middle of Eisenhower, Kennedy, Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, and Bush—drifting ever leftward, to be sure—was where the country seemed to want to be.
(Excerpt) Read more at theepochtimes.com ...
NO Quarter...
The Demagogic Party is, and always has been, just a collection of violent, rival street gangs.
I just watched a 2 part series on the Spanish Civil War with brand new colorized footage. One thing Franco said as he was consolidating power was that he would kill half of the people in Spain if necessary, and he meant it. Even when he knew the other side was defeated he refused any concessions and methodically moved from town to town, killing or imprisoning anyone who had stood against him. It reminded me of today’s Progressive Democrats.
Koch, one of the last Democrats I had some respect for.
Retribution. No prisoners, either.
Human nature never really changes
Our American experiment was the closest to succeed by defying the nature of man’s great desire for power and money.
I liked Koch. Here in the state of Washington, I liked Mike Lowry as a liberal Democrat, and Gary Locke as a centrist Democrat (governors). No Republicans for governor for 36 years.
The WA Demonrats stole the Governorship from Dino Rossi.
Always had a problem with Hizzoner saying that. It wasn't "the people" that voted him out, it was his fellow Democrats!
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