Does the New York mayoral race tell us something key about the state of the American voter? What I mean is, New York was driven very close to Detroit-like ruin by uber left wing politics only to be miraculously saved by conservative mayors Giuliani and Bloomberg - and yet Big Apple is all set in a seeming landslide to put another uber liberal back in power as if none of that recent history happened - why? Sure, New York is a liberal place and I guess it's possible that so much time has passed since the bad old days that people have simply forgotten - but I have trouble buying that - I think rather what we're witnessing once again is the death grip the cancer of identity politics has on the liberal mind these days - I think for many left wing voters in New York the fact that de Blasio is a white guy married to a black woman [and a poet no less - Jesus] and that they have a couple of charming biracial children is plenty reason enough to cast a vote for the guy. If true, it behooves us to ask the attending question: how can a democracy survive when its voters are that stupid, guided by notions that are so utterly detached from common sense and blindly committed to an ethos that seems to have no qualms whatsoever about playing down to that bestial ignorance in order to gain power?
