Last year, I told New
Yorkers to vote for Republican Guardian Angel (and perennial candidate) Curt
Sliwa, but prepare for the worst.
Democratic Socialist Mamdani was the favorite from May to
November 2025, with polling consistently giving him the edge. Former governor Andrew
Cuomo, forever corrupt and incompetent and glorying in self-aggrandizement, was
the last person who should have been mayor.
Democrats and Republicans who didn’t want a crazy commie
taking over their city glided toward Cuomo. Mamdani had the momentum, though;
he had the outsider star power (the fact that he never held down a real job
made that edge even easier), and he offered a bold set of ideas … at least to
anyone ignorant of history, which describes the vast majority of the educated
chattering classes in New York City Upper East or Lower West or anywhere else.
The communist won, and New Yorkers are getting what they
voted for. They wanted government grocery stores? They will get lines of people
waiting for bread, when across the country the bread waits in line for us. They
wanted potholes filled? Good luck keeping the police officers on the force, as
well. They wanted cheaper housing? They’re getting rent control, less housing,
higher prices, and a feeling that they are better than the suburbs.
New York City is on its last legs, and the voters deserve
what’s coming.
A silver lining shines out, though. Democrats to the left of
Hochul are failing in New York City. How about electing a governor to the
right? Blake ______ is gaining on the incumbent governor, and Democratic
celebrities are lining up behind a Republican to keep the Empire State from
turning into a rump failed state.
What about Los Angeles?
The same dynamic of left-wing getting its wings is flying on
the West Coast. Another deep blue city is looking at voting between bad and worse,
dumb and dumber, corrupt and more corrupt as their final choices for next mayor
of Los Angeles.
During the June primary, LA voters had a chance to elect
common sense, results, and accountability: Spencer Pratt. A victim of the
Palisades fires, which devoured multiple homes while Mayor Karen Bass was
celebrating the inauguration of the next president of Ghana, Pratt demanded a
city that would work for everyone. His campaign? Lock up the criminals, clean
up the streets, protect the businesses, and allow everyone to enjoy a better
quality of life.
Voters also had the choice of repeat failure,
politician-for-life incumbent Karen Bass, or Democratic Socialists of America (DSA)-aligned
city councilwoman Nithya Raman.
Raman had won her city council re-election outright in 2024,
despite residents and business owners complaining about the neglected,
dilapidated state of her district, which stretches from Silver Lake to Encino,
with Sherman Oaks and Studio City thrown in for good measure. A richer, higher
echelon of voters still voted for the least of all candidates. Homelessness has
gotten so bad, that residents staged their homeless sit-in protest outside of
her home!
How do you like it, Nithya? The
stunts, the anger, the despair spilling onto the City of Angeles might not
matter if the polling proves accurate, since all of them point to a Raman
victory over incumbent Bass come November.
The Democratic Socialists of America will have realized
their greatest feat yet: control over the two largest cities in the country.
From there, they can build on the big donor base in the two largest cities and
run one of their own for President and more US Senate seats.
Raman, an immigrant from India, educated at Harvard and MIT,
blessed with all the goodness that is America, has campaigned on grievance and
gain at the expense of those who work for their money or own their property. She
hates the West, the wise, the good, and the common-sensical. What Democratic
Party apparatchiks have promised for decades, she will deliver: voters for
non-citizens, single-payer healthcare, abolition of law enforcement, etc.
California Election Law does not permit a write-in at the
General election for mayor, so the voters are stuck between a rock and a prison.
Indie
journalist Daniel Guss urges LA voters to vote for both to spoil the county
and tally their outrage and opposition, but one of them will still win.
The winner is looking more and more like Raman.
And the voters of Los Angeles deserve everything that
happens to them.
Can’t they get their act together and vote for someone
worthwhile? Decent? Not evil?
Los Angeles hasn’t enjoyed a Republican mayor since
philanthropist Richard Riordan, who brought class and competence to city
government during his tenure. Despite his endorsement of President Bill Clinton
in 1996, Riordan did well by the city. Democratic successors demonstrated some
competence of their own, as well as controversy. With the rise of the DSA in
the last five years, and their en masse takeover of the Los Angeles County
Democratic Party, Los Angeles County and Los Angeles city have witnessed a
sharp veer to the political Left.
Land Acknowledgements, defunding of the police, LGBT
celebrations everywhere, ethnic months and non-profit pandering, reparations
boards, protests against Israel, and more attacks on churches and Jews
communities have erupted across every level of government in the wake of the
socialist spread.
And now the mayor’s race will broaden the bad.
Bass is desperate for support, touting endorsements of local
leaders in a recent spate of commercials. She expected a walk in the park as
the First Female (and First Black Female) mayor in the city’s history. She’s
getting walked and will likely get put out to pasture. Identity politics aren’t
getting her across the finish line this time. The LA-aera progressive left has
gone full commie, and they want their workers’ revolution NOW! They can out-organize
the establishment, overcoming the institutional inertia of the labor unions,
big business, and the many lobbyists who made Downtown Los Angeles their second
home.
Nithya Raman is the face of the rising socialist uprising,
and Los Angeles should get ready for the Bolshevik takeover.
The one silver lining in all of this: Karen Bass deserves to
go. She’s a political climber from state assembly to assembly speaker to
Congress, who had a shot at Joe Biden’s VP slot, and now LA mayor. To see her
political career crash and burn will be fun.
The one question that Raman needs to consider: Is she ready
for them when they turn on her, just as the DSA Left has taken Mamdani to task
for not moving fast enough to enact their demented agenda? Silly DSA
politicians, they never learn: the Revolution always eats its own, especially
its enthusiastic thought leaders who fail (because they can’t succeed) to live
up to and enact their utopian aspirations.
Finally, here’s my question to the Los Angeles electorate:
will four years of DSA madness at the helm of your angelic city awaken you from
your regressive leftist woke slumbers to vote for common sense? Perhaps you
will vote for Spencer Pratt in four years, perhaps even a Republican? Or are
you prepared for the fully demonic DSA possession of your city? Are you
prepared to pay for the political exorcism once the city breathes its last?
