I wasn't surprised at all by the results of yesterday's elections. Decades of watching this sort of thing have deeply impressed this upon me: that people in densely populated areas almost always vote for the candidates who will cause the most harm. I've heard various reasons why this is so. It all pretty much comes down to stupidity in numbers. People in big cities like New York and Chicago have itching ears for the candidates who can smooth-talk them with promises of good times and never-ending benefits.
Zohran Mamdani is going to be mayor of New York City for the next four years. I have never seen an American candidate so ill-fitted to be put in charge of a major metropolitan area. It seems that New York has already forgotten the lessons of 9/11. Mamdani is a Muslim extremist who cavorts around those who cheered on Osama Bin Laden. Mamdani is also full-bore socialist, who among other things has promised to impose higher taxes on white people (okay, he didn't come out right and say that, but he's been pretty clear that he believes white people are richer and deserve to be punished for that). He wants free buses, city-run grocery stores (he-lloooooo food deserts! Some former Soviet citizens will no doubt fondly recall the good ol' days of standing in line for hours to get wood-pulp toilet paper), universal health care and child care... basically if it's ever been proposed by progressive minds, Mamdani is going to make it come true.
I'll give it a year, two at the most, before Mamdani is going to come begging for money from the federal government. Remember that episode of The Simpsons where Homer became sanitation commissioner and blew his entire year's budget in a month, on things like swanky new uniforms and amphibious garbage trucks? It's going to be like that... only WORSE.
Want me to make the same wager that I made before Biden took office? Sure, I'll do it: if New York City isn't in worse condition four years from now than it is today, I'll eat my fedora. With A1 steak sauce.
And then there is what happened in Virginia with the governor's race there.
Neither did Abigail Spanberger's win over the much more richly qualified and competent Winsome Earle-Sears come as a shock. As my father sometimes put it after an election, Spanberger was "picked to win." It's really quite simple: a successful black woman is not supposed to be a conservative Republican. According to the liberal institutions of America such a person should instead be on the plantation of big government ruled by Democratic overseers. But I knew Spanberger would win. The leftists of Northern Virginia - that solid block north of Richmond - were more than enough to override the ballots of the rest of the state.
Maybe the western counties of Virginia should petition to join the state of West Virginia. The new state can call itself Greater Virginia. Let the leftists run their little kingdom in the Beltway area. Northern Virginia is a company town and the employees do not vote against the company. But that doesn't mean anyone else should have to pay for NOVA's sins.
Spanberger ran on two issues: "Trump bad man" and her belief that grown men should be allowed to go into the locker rooms and restrooms of females, including teenage girls. One person I know has insinuated that I am "behind the times" and that it's really no big deal for men and women and children to undress in public spaces in front of each other. Maybe that's what "progressive" countries do. But that's not the way it is here in the United States. I once saw a man and woman having sex in a public park in Brussels. It was one of the most repulsive things I've ever witnessed. It was definitely not something I want to see emulated here. Spanberger and too many others do not believe in the sanctity and holiness of one's body belonging only to themselves, to their mates, and to God. They have twisted the concept of gender into something warped and evil. Apparently the people of Northern Virginia - and others in that state - have no issue with this. But again, I should not be surprised. Perversion is something that only grows worse with time, and it's going to seemingly take an act of Almighty God to knock many of us back to their senses.
I don't see yesterday's elections as being a "referendum on Trump". Those elections were in places where leftists have long dominated. I would have been legitimately surprised if they had gone any other way. The mid-terms are still twelve months away. Anything can happen in that time. Although I suspect that the more rural areas - the places where Trump won bigly in all three elections he's been in - are going to continue to support him. THOSE are the places I have hope for, and not the urban centers of America.
As for New York City, I have a suggestion. Taken from the pages of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged. Some not-too-distant night from now, when that once-great city is falling into calamity because of Mamdani's policies, I would like to propose that somebody get one of those projectors. Have it illuminate the side of the Empire State Building. And there, in million-point font, lit up for the whole damned world to see, have the words of Francisco D'anconia:
"BROTHER, YOU ASKED FOR IT!"
