Posted on 09/14/2018 7:07:53 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The socialist insurgency against establishment Democrats in New York emerged triumphant as no less than 6 far left candidates defeated establishment Democrats in races for the state senate.
Years of anger at a group of Democratic state senators who had collaborated with Republicans boiled over on Thursday, as primary voters ousted nearly all of them in favor of challengers who had called them traitors and sham progressives.
The losses were not only a resounding upset for the members of the Independent Democratic Conference, who outspent their challengers several times over, but also a sign that the progressive fervor sweeping national politics had hobbled New York’s once-mighty Democratic machine, at least on a local level.
The most high-profile casualty was Senator Jeffrey D. Klein of the Bronx, the former head of the I.D.C. In that role, he was for years one of Albany’s most powerful players, sharing leadership of the chamber with his counterparts in the Republican conference and participating in the state’s secretive budget negotiations.
But on Thursday, he was defeated by Alessandra Biaggi, a lawyer and former aide to Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, after a campaign in which Ms. Biaggi cornered Mr. Klein into spending more than $2 million, an astonishing sum for a state legislative race. (Cynthia Nixon, in her unsuccessful bid against Mr. Cuomo, spent less.)
Two things: First, the victories of socialists rid the Democrats of the last vestige of bi-partisanship in the state senate. This will make Albany an even more unruly place than it already is. Secondly, and most important, the march of socialism in the Democratic party appears to be unstoppable and will make 2020 an Armageddon of sorts between right and left.
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American exceptionalism vs. global socialist hegemony. They cannot coexist.
The cancer of progressivism has taken root and is now metastasizing. The public education system has worked and will manifest things like this in blue enclaves around the country (the cities) and seats of power. This is already clear in the tech sector. That these candidates wouldn’t be repudiated and thrown out on their ears by the voters is telling.
Sadly you are correct. The only thing holding them back us us old fogies. Once we head to that great Tea Party in the Sky the country is going Socialist.
The so-called slaughter of any democrats is not a bad thing.
So we are going to have economic devastation on both coasts that will expect the rest of us to pick up the pieces and bail them out financially after they have ruined their states.
I say we don’t bother. We don’t fund their unrealistic pension plans or if we do no one gets more than the minimum wage
After years of deciet and lies, the democrat party is revealing what they have always been.....Communists and Socialists.
All these Democrats vote almost exactly alike regardless of what they consider themselves to be.
If that were true, the Dems wouldn't have lost more than 1,400 races since 2010, and Trump wouldn't be president now.
The Democrat party may be moving left, but the country as a whole is moving right.
i hope you are correct, especially this November...my concern is the GOTV enthusiasm, unlike 2010/2014 when we in the Tea Party pushed and pushed and pushed, i see the GOP being a drag on our chances this year...
That was what the unions picked, huh?
As the Communists seize control of the Dem Party infrastructure, we may see more of a #WalkAway phenomenon.
>>> and will make 2020 an Armageddon of sorts between right and left
No, it won’t be Armageddon, the final battle.
Instead, think 2020 = 1854
If that were true, the Dems wouldn't have lost more than 1,400 races since 2010, and Trump wouldn't be president now.
The Democrat party may be moving left, but the country as a whole is moving right.
Who cares, to paraphrase New York’s governor..
New York was never great.
I don’t know if the country is moving right, as much as its really not moving at all... while the Democrats have moved left at Mach 3.
NY and NYC politicians have already been increasingly nauseating libtards in recent years-—look how the NYC city council just voted that people can fill in birth certificates now with “gender to be decided”. I predict taxes will rise even further, the better to fund all the illegal criminal invaders, ghetto a@@sitters, and free dis, dat, and doz. This will become even more The Peoples’ Republic of NY, with the piece of excrement Cuomo as the drum major.
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