Comments on: As New York City goes, so goes DC?

By: AesopFan

AesopFan — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 03:42:28 +0000

@ Niketas — and thus both parties move away from the Center (wherever that might be) and any actual Centrists (not extremists, activists, ideologues, or whatever) have to choose the least-bad fit for their own political and financial and social preferences.

We really need a mechanism for a viable third party.

By: Niketas Choniates

Niketas Choniates — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 16:32:27 +0000

It’s the same phenomenon that on the Right produced Trump. Most people now, Left or Right, are to the point where they want to throw the bums out that have been in the seats too long. On the Left, they’re naturally going to pick leftists and socialists for this. They don’t think the establishment Dems are trying hard enough, much as how many of us on the right don’t think the establishment GOP is trying hard enough.

By: R2L

R2L — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 03:53:48 +0000

@ Jimmy: “Maybe it takes a bankruptcy, which Detroit went through, to wake people up.”
I fear the same may end up being the case for the US of A.
Except if the definition of bankruptcy is being clearly unable to meet your current or future obligations, then we are there now.
We will default, but probably hidden by the tax of inflation.

By: SHIREHOME

SHIREHOME — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 00:40:13 +0000

Denver can’t be far behind. I don’t know who is running to be Governor next yr, but I do know they will be much further to the idijt left of Polis.
They will make Polis look like a moderate, which he isn’t

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 23:19:44 +0000

I continue to be amazed that Detroit, which is 80% black, elected a white moderate, now in his third term. And the city has thrived. You might think that other blue hells would see this and think twice about lurching farther left, but you would be mistaken. Maybe it takes a bankruptcy, which Detroit went through, to wake people up.