Well, since there have been two black on white random hate crime attacks there in the last 2 days (with both of the perpetrators proclaiming their hatred of whites before attacking) and a huge upsurge in crime in Central Park and other formerly safe public spaces in Manhattan, I’d say New Yorkers should think twice about that.
On the other hand, de Blasio is married to a black woman, and they have a son who has been appearing in ads for his father, so maybe he will defuse some of the anti-white (and anti-Hispanic and anti-Asian) hostility generated by Obama among blacks there.
Big mistake early on: Quinn wants to do away with stop and frisk. Unless she’s lying on her lousy tv ads.
Don’t care. Like every other liberal mayor, he will screw it up with his nanny state agenda and then some Republican will have to clean up his mess.
What the opening of this piece should have said:
“With crime down and with fears of terrorism receding, voters are free to focus on issues such as income inequality and affordable housing—and forget about how crime got down and fears of terrorism receded in the first place and elect a leftist moron who will restore crime to the streets and drive business away turning places like Times Square back into the filth infested dumps they once were.”
And so the cycle of idiocy continues. The leftists destroy, the conservatives are called in to rebuild, the voters forget how things got rebuilt and elect the liberals. Wash, rinse, repeat.
New York’s renaissance was in large part due to the money made in financial services over the last thirty years. That this created more “inequality” is a natural consequence. The only way anyone could reduce “inequality” in NY is to drive away those people and those businesses. Which would make everything more equal, but worse.
Unless of course this is all just the usual political pandering.
Has any bicycle, anywhere, ever been peddled backward, as quickly as this administration has backpeddled it’s various policy statments, since it’s inception?
Guiliani cured NY and the City couldn’t wait to elect liberals and statists. They deserve de Blasio.