On 08 Dec 2021, Rudy Canoza <notgenx32@gmail.com> puked some
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> All Democratic party members need their heads bashed in with
> ballbats.

Fresh signs of the tide turning against New York�s leftist cadres keep
popping up.

Consider the lackluster results in the first two days of early voting for
the June 27 primaries for the City Council, DA slots and judgeships.

Fewer than 10,000 Gothamites voted in that window. But as one veteran
consultant put it: Why turn out when �most of the races are not contested
and it�s in the interest of the incumbents that no one turnout because
then they�ll be reelected�?

In other words: One-party rule by lefty machines is driving Big Apple
Democratic voters into numb apathy. They know that even most primaries
give them no alternatives to the same old disastrous policies on policing,
public schools, public health and more.

Yet there are some signs of political life. Take one of the few seriously
contested races � for a new, majority-Asian Council district (the city�s
first) in Brooklyn.

Susan Zhuang, a longtime Democratic operative fighting for the seat, was
caught on tape telling a potential constituent that �My ideas are the
ideas of the Republican Party.�

She wasn�t specific, but her thrust was clear: Fund the police, save the
schools from the teachers unions and free the city (and state) from the
terrible economic policies holding back their recovery.

Susan Zhuang, a longtime democrat, said her ideas were largely republican.
Friends of Susan Zhuang
She even dinged her opponent Wednesday for accepting the endorsement of
the anti-Israel CUNY faculty union � highlighting yet another issue where
Democrats� embrace of far-left stances infuriates many once-loyal Dem
voters.

It�s no coincidence that Zhuang (sincerely or not) was calling herself a
Republican to score votes in the district: The Democratic Party is
alienating Asian voters with its fervid embrace of anti-meritocratic
education policies and pro-crime stances on public safety (with a healthy
dash of anti-Asian racism); these communities� swing rightward is perhaps
the biggest local political sea-change of the decade.

Indeed, the voters (overwhelmingly registered Democrats) in this district
backed GOPer Curtis Sliwa over Eric Adams in the 2021 mayoral race.

Republicans netted three City Council seats in the last election. REUTERS
Those forces also contributed to Republicans� gains in the last City
Council elections, where they netted three seats (including one post-
election, due to a surprise defection from now-ex-Dem Ari Kagan). GOP gov
candidate Lee Zeldin got creamed in deep-blue Manhattan, but vastly
overperformed in some outer-borough areas � managing to win in some Asian-
majority districts in Queens and Brooklyn.

That shift (and swings in other communities, too) can be seen clearly in
the massive victory enjoyed by Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum
and Education (PLACE) in the late-spring elections to the Citywide and
Community Educational Councils, parent-run bodies with a strong voice in
district-level school governance.

Nearly three-fourths of the candidates PLACE endorsed won. That means some
40% of CEC seats will be filled by parents elected for supporting rigorous
standards-based education with advanced instruction for all those capable
of keeping up and merit-based admissions to selective schools.

That is, for opposing the endless effort to degrade and ultimately
eliminate all school standards in the name of �equity� � a central project
of progressive Democrats.

Meanwhile, a left-liberal parent group, Parents for Middle School Equity,
saw a humiliating electoral rebuke.

Make no mistake: These are green shoots, not a full-circle turn.

But they sure show New Yorkers getting sick of woke tyranny, and the
increasingly broad appeal of �Republican� (i.e. sane and sensible) ideas
in Gotham�s politics.

So if our lefty overlords don�t correct course soon, they may well be
looking for new jobs.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/signs-new-yorkers-are-getting-fed-
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