This is all that Italian Commie’s idea and the leading “scholar” on Gramsci was Mayor Pete’s dad at Notre Dame.

Thanks Notre Dame!

It’s been argued before (and for decades) that the entire point of the government-run education system was to set up just this sort of scenario. It is legitimately what Dewey and his fellow-travelers were trying to achieve.

I hope that is NOT the fate of NYC, even under Mamdani.

So many wonderful public and private institutions are there that are NOT “portable” – Central Park, Carnegie Hall, museums and libraries in general. Many other things, but I’m not a native or even transplanted New Yorker so don’t have names at my finger-tips.

My hope, if (when) Mamdani is elected, would be for the decline to be so sharp that the Democrat voter base (aside from the socialist-communist-anarchists) gets bashed around enough to change their ways by the next election, before too much damage is done.

However, if it’s just a case of moving slightly more centrist (as with Cuomo) the decline will only be slowed, not stopped, much less reversed.

Silver lining: look at the cities around the world devastated by WWII and their come-back stories (mostly in Europe, but including Japan). It would take work, but could happen.

On the gripping hand, look at what the governments of those cities and countries are doing to get back (or stay) on the slippery slide to new destruction.

In the political cycle, it seems that the trope about prosperity-decline is not so much about “hard and soft men” as about conservatives getting things shaped up and in working order, then leftists tearing things down again.

NYC is only a key city and a media and financial hub because it is beneficial for those industries to be there. That has become decreasingly so over the years and many companies in those industries (and others) have moved to better locations.

If Mamdami gets elected, the city isn’t going to collapse overnight, but the speed of decline will increase and even more businesses and talented people will leave. With the loss of those jobs, that income and that talent base, the city will decline in importance.

In other words, it’s not the city that’s important, it’s the people in it. When those people leave, they’ll take their skills, wealth, motivation and abilities with them; the value will not disappear, it will just relocate.

“There is no plausible way that 6.2% who became undecided when they lost Sliwa are now all going to vote Cuomo.”

Exactly. Expecting a large number of voters who would prefer the Republican candidate to vote for a dedicated leftist if their preferred candidate drops out is unrealistic. A great many would just not vote.

“44.6% of New Yorkers would vote for Mamdani if Sliwa quit the race, compared to 40.7% saying they’d back Cuomo — with a margin of error of 4 points that puts Cuomo within striking distance.”

In other words, even if the poll is inaccurate to the all the way to the margin of error and in the right direction, Cuomo would still lose.

So even under the best scenario, Sliwa dropping out would do nothing except make the finish a little closer.

Final thing: I guess I’m a bad person or something because I hope Mamdami wins. New York deserves him, and apparently a good chunk of the nation needs a visible example of why it’s a bad idea to elect far left radicals to high office…or low office for that matter.

Remember when abandoned properties in Detroit were for sale for $100 and no one would buy them? The future of Manhattan? We can always hope.

And what Geoffrey said: “It speaks volumes when 72.1% of a city’s voters are willing to vote for either a mass murderer or a jihadist supporting communist. Cuomo’s past actions are known and to his credit Mamdani is up front about his plans and mindset.”

The Folly of Lesser Evil Voting: Why America Needs Cthulhu

https://cthulhuforamerica.com/lesser-evil-voting-america-cthulhu-presisdent/
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Cthulhu isn’t on the ballot, but you can always write It in.

Sometimes the lesser of two evils really is the lesser of two evils.