Apparently less than 5% of all New York City residents voted for Zohran Mamdani, the charismatic, anti-Israel, slick crypto-communist who is now poised to become mayor of the City That Doesn’t Think—oops! I mean “sleep.” Never mind though: winning the crowded primary last week made him an instant celebrity, gave him a platform to spew his toxic ideology far and wide, confounding the dim, the gullible, the uneducated and the America-haters, and makes him a genuine threat to take over the drowning Democratic Party by apathy.
People who are stupid, ignorant and don’t care shouldn’t vote, but when a majority of potential voters who aren’t stupid and ignorant and do care also don’t vote, democracy not only doesn’t work, it is dangerous.
Mamdani received 432,305 votes, a plurality of votes cast, but only 43.5% of the whole. Slightly less than 30% of Democrats cast ballots in the primary at all. Making Mamdani’s victory even less impressive than “meets the eye” is the fact that Democrats punted, leaving disgraced, slimy, dishonest and despicable former mayor Andrew Cuomo as the best known alternative to the Democratic-Socialist and the apparent choice of the party bosses. Bill Clinton endorsed him! Gee, what a surprise: Bill favors a politician who likes sexual harassment. This is how a major political party and its voters fail their civic obligations to democracy, not that this particular political party hasn’t made a habit out of such conduct lately. A song:
Kamala!
The best they could find was Kamala!
And suddenly that name
Will cover them in shame for years!
Kamala!
Say it once and you sense forboding!
Say it twice and your brain is corroding…
Kamala! My head is exploding…Kamala!
(Sorry. It just sort of came over me.)
Gee, thanks, Democrats! So now this facile demagogue has a national platform to spread crack-brain theories like eliminating prisons, guaranteed income, taxing white neighborhoods and making it impossible to be a billionaire because they “shouldn’t exist.” Meanwhile, he’s as evasive as Kamala but better at it because, in part, he doesn’t cackle or say “Right?” when he ducks an issue.
While generally sucking up to him yesterday, “Meet the Press’s” current Axis hack Kristen Welker asked Mamdani several times and several ways to condemni the phrase “globalize the intifada,” which means “kill all the Jews, everywhere.” His answer was, first, that he doesn’t believe in “banning words.” Neither do I, but that wasn’t the question. He then deflected by mentioning the equivalent of “Squirrel!” to a dog’s brain, saying that banning the phrase is something Donald Trump would do. Then he claimed that the word “intifada” has “been used by the Holocaust Museum when translating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising into Arabic.” That argument is dishonest…
Eventually, Mamdani defaulted to “…to me, ultimately, what I hear in so many is a desperate desire for equality and equal rights in standing up for Palestinian human rights.” It doesn’t matter, see, what anti-Semites and Hamas supporters mean, just what he hears.
Good job, New York Democrats. Now we’re all stuck with this guy…
Ethics Alarms 
“People who are stupid, ignorant and don’t care shouldn’t vote, but when a majority of potential voters who aren’t stupid and ignorant and do care also don’t vote, democracy not only doesn’t work, it is dangerous.”
From this statment I make the following claims:
Some of this can be corrected by starting with the educatonal process:
In days of yore we had pictures of the President and the mayor in our NYC classrooms, to remind us who are leaders were. In 7th grade , in th emidst of the Cod war we werre requird to know the presidential lineof succession. By eight grade we had to name theose who hold the varius cabinebt pposiitions,.
I guess wha ti am saying isthe their msut be a return to the knowledge of Civics in the classromm and the conversation surronding any election
No, Get Out The Vote is, on balance worthwhile because it may activate apathetic citizens to educate themselves so they CAN vote responsibly. The mandatory voting schemes that are frequently proposed (like when a party loses a Presidential election and wants to undermine the legitimacy of the result) are calls for more uninformed votes. I also believe that making voting so easy that it requires minimal commitment to the process undermines democracy.
I agree that these are theories, but I want to also highlight that nearly every left-wing politician, almost without exception, campaigns to “the right” of their true intent. Usually the unspoken plan is more radical than he/she is willing to publicly admit before the ballots are cast.
So here comes Mamdani, espousing very far-left ideas, talking in strongly anti-semitic language, and displaying blatantly anti-white discriminatory intentions…and we are still months from an actual election. What do those suggest about how he would REALLY attempt to govern the country’s largest city?
Where did the song come from? I feel like I should recognize it, but I can’t place it.
Would it be, West Side Story? Maria
[From Your Host: the banned commenter wants everyone to know that for Kamala’s name to be used in a parody of “Maria,” I had to mispronounce her name. He’s right, and to be honest, I never even thought of that in the moment, but I’ll have another parody with the right accent later, but not until tonight.]
Ooops. I thought “Kamala” was “Camelot!”
Ooh…that’s a good idea too.
[From your host: The banned commenter complains here that I misrepresent the content of his comments that should not be appearing here at all. A new high for chutzpah!
In this comment, he recommends pangolin abuse as an avocation, boasts of his seven toes on one foot (his left), extols the versatility of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, confesses that he ate Phil Hartman (with fava beans and a nice Chianti) and endorses Jasmine Crockett for President….]
Uh oh, the BCWNMNBS is back. I rang in first, 4 minutes before the BCWNMNBS
Won’t Eric Adams run as an independent and beat this guy?
OB,
I’m trying to speculate as to how Republicans in NYC are going to handle this. A GOP mayoral candidate has next to zero chance of winning, so voting for the GOP in this case is probably a vote for Mamdani. Do Republicans abort this election en masse and let the Democrats duke it out, or do they press for someone like Adams to run as an Independent and then pull out all the stops and vote for him? If that were the case, the votes are probably there to beat Mamdani.
Thoughts?
Or…they all vote for Mamdani and watch (along with the rest of the country) the democrats self-immolate and further lose ground in NY and nationwide with their insanely unworkable programs.
Jack, you inspired me to pen this.
Sung to the melody of Maria from The Sound of Music.
When she speaks, we’re all confused
She’s out of focus and bemused
And I never know exactly what she’s saying
Unintelligible as a dolphin
She’s as articulate as Gabby Johnson
She’s a swindler, she’s a demon, she’s a sham
She’s got an IQ of 70 at best
I wish her musings were in jest
She could throw a whirling dervish out of whirl
She is evil, she is vile
She’s a riddle to be reviled
She’s a charlatan
She’s a swindler
She’s a sham
How do you solve a problem like Kamala?
How could anyone vote for such a clown?
How do you find a word that means Kamala?
A flibbertigibbet
A simpleton
A clown
Many a thing you know you’d like to tell her
Many a thing she ought to understand
But how do you keep her at bay?
And stay above the fray?
How can you vote for such a sham?
How can you vote for such a sham?
How can you vote for such a sham?
How do you solve a problem like Kamala?
How do you keep the country out of a jam?
As promised:
Kamala!
Kamala!
Your pronouncements incite me
Make no sense; you’re so dense…
I invite you to bite me!
It’s idiocy to claim bigotry
Let GOP defeat you.
Kamala!
Kamala!
It was easy to beat you.