Will Of The Voter
By Mitch Berg
George Will has deserved plenty of flak over the past 40 years or so.
And he’s caught some for this interview here.
And I think the flakkers got it wrong:
I think what he’s saying here is “let New York voters FA, so the whole nation can FO”.
I mean, it’s going to happen anyway.
August 12th, 2025 at 7:07 am
I get his point and it does make sense. It would be nice to have a highly visible demonstration project so everyone could see just how badly s0cialism fails again.
Except it wouldn’t get blamed on s0cialism, it would get blamed on Trump and systemic white supremacy and climate change and … the rest of the nation would end up bailing them out.
The laboratory of democracy only works if we don’t federalize the moral hazard of failed experiments.
August 12th, 2025 at 7:11 am
Huh, moderation. Must have run afoul of a banned word. Try again.
I get Will’s point and it does make sense. It would be nice to have a highly visible demonstration project so everyone could see just how badly the idiotic political theory that starts with “S” fails again.
Except it wouldn’t get blamed on the idiotic political theory that starts with “S,” it would get blamed on Trump and systemic white supremacy and climate change and … the rest of the nation would end up bailing them out.
The laboratory of democracy only works if we don’t federalize the moral hazard of failed experiments.
August 12th, 2025 at 7:29 am
What a silly old man. LA, run by actual (Demo)Commie isn’t enough of an example? Heck, CA isn’t enough of an example? All the other LA wannabes like Mpls, Boston, Portland, Seattle… all the CA wannabes like MN, MI, MA… how many examples is enough for this clown?
August 12th, 2025 at 7:44 am
Of course they failed. Those weren’t True S***ism. This time, we will do it better. This time, it will be different.
August 12th, 2025 at 7:45 am
More common than you think:
1) “Theater major activists” land in the only job they qualify for.
2) They then throw their fists in the air and organize the coffee shop/restaurant into a union whose only purpose is to vacuum up X% of union wages.
3) Being destined for better things, they soon quit and go elsewhere.
4) The the coffee shop/restaurant goes out of business.
5) Lather, rinse, repeat.
Now, let’s scale that up to a city level.
1) “Theater major activists” in Minneapolis, New York, San Francisco, Seattle take over the leadership of the local Democrat Party.
2) Elect Socialist/Communist candidates.
3) They then move to the suburbs or urban conclave after maturing into NGO functionaries.
4) The city descends into a homeless, crime-ridden hellhole.
5) Lather, rinse, repeat.
August 12th, 2025 at 7:49 am
H.L. Mencken continues to be correct. And while I acknowledge that the majority of New Yorkers will follow Irving Kristol’s decision tree to “Neoliberalism,” there will be some that take the other path to “Neoconservativism.” I can only control myself, and try to teach my children to be wiser than the general public. So I will continue to advocate for letting people vote their bad ideas into office.
August 12th, 2025 at 7:56 am
We should adopt an acronym for the type of Soc1@lism beinf proposed by Fateh and Mamdani. We could call it:
New Absolutely Pure Soc1@lism
or NAPS
August 12th, 2025 at 9:53 am
And we know where the purest form of that political theory leads, for those like us who oppose it: dirt NAPS. More than any other political theory in history.
NAPS. I like it.
August 12th, 2025 at 1:06 pm
I can see the virtue of letting Gotham getting what they want good and hard, but the reality is that as Gotham goes down, so does a good portion of the economy as a whole. Same basic point with Minneapolis and Minnesota. Sometimes you can’t afford to let the big cities go down the tubes. Really, ask Michigan about Detroit and Indiana about Gary. When you screw things up immensely in one place, the spillover can be horrendous.
August 13th, 2025 at 2:40 am
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August 13th, 2025 at 6:45 am
Give Will credit for this much – he seems to have rediscovered the limits of “not our kind, dear” when he considers the implications of governance by his kind.
August 13th, 2025 at 6:54 am
Heh. Clever, Mr D.