Wrong focus
The talkers on "both" "sides" are focusing on the Virginia governor. Could be meaningful; remains to be seen. Youngkin is Romney. He's a hedge-fund NYC rich boy. He looks like an easy surrender, a normal chickenshit Repooflican promise-breaker. I'm not betting on him.

To my eyes the bigger event of this "election" is the NYC mayor. Eric Adams is GENUINELY BLACK, not half foreign and half white like Obama. Adams is also a GENUINE COP.

Virginia might have been riled up about the silly CRT crap, but New Yorkers were riled up about REAL riots and REAL crime of all types. Crimes by the hedge funds as well as the gangs. At least symbolically, Adams is the opposite of both types of crime. He seems to have enough GUTS to make a difference. I'd bet with him.

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Later: This piece from Bari Weiss explains the Virginia shift more deeply. I hadn't been paying attention. The CRT crap was just the last straw, the handle for a much larger disgust with elite arrogance and condescension. What's new is that the disgusted people now include many well-off and influential courtiers. The rich DC suburbs include plenty of educated people from Vietnam and China and India, who have a real culture. They got tired of hearing lectures and SHUTUPS on the subjects of gender diversity and racial diversity from lily-white fuckheads. They are also tired of muzzling and distancing while the same lily-white fuckheads, who KNOW IT'S A HOAX, never muzzle and distance themselves.

I still don't trust Youngkin, but now I see the bigger picture, and it makes tremendous sense.


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And later again: I've been rigorously avoiding all attention to "local" politics, to preserve my brain. Turns out that I missed one positive event closer to home than NYC. In Seattle of all places, defunders lost both the mayor and city prosecutor. Explicitly pro-police candidates won both positions with solid majorities. Maybe we're moving out of the era of total paralysis when "elections" had zero effect? Remains to be seen. Still no change here.

Labels: #bluelivesmatter, NOW I SEE

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