Posted on 07/18/2021 12:41:03 AM PDT by Olog-hai
“Just got New York, I’m told”
Good. They deserve each other. There is a lot money there that the politicians stole from the sheep. They can fight over who gets to steal it from there. The decent people need to move out and let be one big public housing project.
Here’s a crazy idea. How about we vote for who would do the best job rather than skin color and good hair.
House mouse.
You've waited to long to leave.
This same Adams once switched to the GOP.
Yes, but politics is the art of the possible Arguably the last truly principled unabashed conservative to run for Mayor in NYC was Bill Buckley (and I would argue that his principles had problems and there were certainly some positions that I would consider conservative that he was unabashedly against)-—and when asked what was the first thing he would do if he was elected mayor of NYC, he replied that he would demand a recount.
If you love NYC and think you could aid it as mayor by moving it away from the liberal cliff somewhat, doing what it takes to get in the driver’s seat makes sense.
I don’t care for NYC and have no illusions about being able to guide it—but realize that that may not be true of all people.
Gaining office also is the goal of those that love power. Feigning a move away from the radical direction may gain the office, but then it becomes a tool for harm (cf. Bloomberg).
Gaining office also is the goal of those that love power.
This is a really big problem in a representative democracy.
We had a good start with Washington, but it has been somewhat downhill from there.
Finally!
I’ve got your back. :o)
It was the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments that changed us from a republic to a democracy. Those implemented two planks of communism, by pulling power away from state governments and into DC and by centralizing a permanent tax on income.
As Woodrow Wilson said, “socialism and democracy are almost, if not quite, one and the same”. Therefore, the guarantor of liberty would be limited republican government by contrast; literally, democracy is a centralizing power that puts collective over individual and has proven so everywhere, and we’re seeing the endgame worldwide.
Nice post.
If there was an anti-Rushmore, Wilson would certainly belong there along with FDR, Lincoln, and LBJ. I don’t know who I’d nominate for a fifth person.
So much for all the news about “gentrification” of black neighborhoods in NY.
Lincoln? He’s on Rushmore, as is TR. Opus?
Isn’t that white supremacy?
Have to laugh at Eric Adams’ recent claims about being opposed to socialism.
Rushmore isn’t the Roman Martyrology. One can disagree with the choices while recognizing the good intentions.
Lincoln was dynamic, and had a big impact-—but that doesn’t mean he was good for keeping the Republic going the way it had been designed.
The important thing about Lincoln was his story of repentance, which is one reason why God gave him the victory. Certain revanchist-minded self-appointed authorities do often omit that story.
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