OK, I admit, that's a long blog post title. Still, it works.
Cuomo lost the Democratic primary for mayor of NYC to a Marxist Muslim with absolutely zero management experience. Cuomo, former governor of NY, should have turned Mamdani into roadkill, if resumes counted for anything.
But resumes don't count for anything when there's a major fork in the road and your candidacy represents going straight, right into a tree.
IMO, these days, every election has as one of its dominant issues this question: Should the government get much larger or much smaller? Where we are right now is untenable. We are not, as Jefferson Davis wanted to do for the slaves, taking care of people from cradle to grave. We are also not, as Thomas Sowell might argue, allowing people to make their own choices and live with the consequences.
We have found the middle point - trying to do a whole lot for citizens while running up a crushing debt because we won't tax those same citizens appropriately. That's a middle point that, quite obviously, is unstable.
NYC, California, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, Baltimore, Chicago, insert your favorite blue state or blue city here, has a balance sheet that looks a lot like this.
No one, outside of innumerate white, liberal women, thinks this is sustainable. We either need to do the full Mamdani / Davis and turn everyone into proles / slaves or we need to start moving back towards Thomas Sowell. You can't just stand in the middle of the road shouting, "Stay the course! Everything is fine! We just need competent leadership and all will be well."
Cuomo tried just that and the college-educated, read: college indoctrinated, deserted him and voted for Jeff Davis. It will always be like that. This is the future of the Democratic Party. You can't stay in the middle of the road and get run over like a possum, you're going to have to make a choice. The activists are plumping for slavery to Massa in the Big Statehouse. They've got the energy and enthusiasm.
If you're a centrist Democrat, you're going to have to argue that we need to take the other choice at the fork in the road.
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No fork-in-the-road blog post would be complete without this.
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