New Yorkers are preparing to elect a new mayor. The old mayor, Eric Adams, has succumbed to the long history of petty corruption and sclerotic bureaucracy that makes Gotham the special place it is. Time buries all things; does anyone even remember Bill de Blasio, that killer of groundhogs, and world traveler during blackouts and crises? In 2017, De Blasio went to Hamburg, Germany to protest President Donald Trump (#45) at the G20 a day after a NYPD officer was ambushed in his car. Those were the days, and it’s good nobody remembers them.
NYC voters tend to have the memory of a housefly when dealing with politics, yet manage to recall every single season where the Yankees beat the Red Sox, including an inning-by-inning recap. Amazing, the human capacity for self-delusion. Now they are poised to bury themselves under someone who will not be remembered the way Bill de Blasio isn’t remembered, ten years from now.
Zohran Mamdani, the socialist dreamer. Mamdani, the antisemite hiding behind “genocide” and “Free Palestine!” slogans shouted through bullhorns. Mamdani, the guy with absolutely zero experience running a daycare or a barber shop, never mind a city of eight and a half million souls.
If the polls are right, Zohran should be planning his victory party, and not even worry about asking for a refund on the matoke buffet. I have no reason to believe the polls are wrong: every single one has Mamdani winning over the sad choices trying to unbury themselves from the trash mound of history. Andrew Cuomo is a corrupt, grandma-killing pilferer, a schmuck whose very name is associated with the worst parts of COVID-19. Who wants to remind themselves of that every day? Curtis Sliwa was last cool when the Village People were hot. They’re both fossils, buried so far down New Yorkers’ collective memory holes that Archie Bunker can’t even bring them back.
Of course, anything is possible, right? (Ask the Dodgers.) I mean, it’s possible that New York City’s Jews could wake up Tuesday morning, realize they’re about to elect someone who admires the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, from 1941, that great Pan-Arab hero and the quintessential anti-Zionist. Other New Yorkers could awaken to the fact that it’s impossible to make the buses free, never mind the subways, and also have them actually run. They could wake up to the fact that landlords are going to have their way with Mamdani like Roy Moore at the junior prom.
Anything is possible, so actor Wallace Shawn, who has been door-knocking for Mamdani, might utter his most famous word after reading the New York Times late Tuesday night and seeing the results. Say it! Say the word, Vizzini!
I’m not holding my breath. New Yorkers are keen on burying themselves once again, and finding out why they’ve forgotten the last ten years all over again. But this time, with more Jew hating. For that, I am sad.
In the same vein, I have a proposition for those who believe in some kind of god, and also believe that Jews in Israel are some kind of settler colonialists, who must be purged from the land always claimed by its original inhabitants, the Arabs who believe in Islam.
“Is that you, troubler of Israel?”
I have the same proposition Elijah offered Ahab and the priests of Baal. “How long will you waver between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow him; but if Baal is God, follow him.”
If the god of Islam is Allah, all powerful and able to condemn souls or elevate them to paradise, and Allah says the land where Israel sits is the property of Allah’s people, then Allah should be able do the “river to the sea” thing without a whole lot of help.
Why hasn’t Allah done it?
“Shout louder!”
“Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened.”
I wrote yesterday about the suffering of the Hebrews as God’s chosen people, and that the Bible is crystal clear that Zionism is the foundation of Christianity. The analogy is Fish is to Water as Christianity is to Zionism. Christian Zionism is simply Christianity per the Bible. Read it yourself.
The God of Israel, which is also the God of Christianity, because He is Yeshua Ha Maschiach, the son of the living God, one of the trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, creator of the universe, says the land of Israel, according to its ancient borders set when God cut a covenant with Abraham, belongs to Abraham’s seed. Not only does it belong to Abraham’s seed, it was inherited by Isaac, the son of promise. Ishmael is the son of Abraham also, through Hagar the handmaid, and the Lord promised that Ishmael’s seed would multiply. The sons of Ishmael have followed Allah, and Allah has not managed to give them the land promised through Isaac.
The God of Israel has answered by fire. He continues to answer by fire. He has given the land to the Jewish people, against all odds, against staggering opposition, against the entire world. Does the world think it can stand against its own creator? If so, let the world do what it does. The God of Israel has an answer for that, found in Psalm 2. Read it.
Or you can listen to this song by Rich Mullins.
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"Zohran Mamdani, the socialist dreamer. Mamdani, the antisemite hiding behind 'genocide' and 'Free Palestine!' slogans shouted through bullhorns. Mamdani, the guy with absolutely zero experience running a daycare or a barber shop, never mind a city of eight and a half million souls."
As someone living through something like this in Chicago with Brandon Johnson, it's simultaneously better and worse than you'd expect. There's a lot of learning to be had on the job, and City Councils are great reality checks. If the choice were just between him and Cuomo, I'd still pull the lever for Mamdani. (We have enough sex pests in power.)
That said, were I a New York City voter tomorrow, I'd happily pull the lever for Curtis Sliwa. His recent interview with Nate Friedman made me a big fan, and he OOZES NYC from his pores:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHO1hm2iyF0
De Blasio may be an apt comparison - and it's probably good to remember all the doom that was said would accompany his election while things basically didn't change at all. My money is on his being a typical NYC mayor - probably not getting a lot done and that being the end of his political career.