The Left is celebrating Omaha’s mayoral election win as their proof Republicans are out of step with America, when really this win is evidence of how the nation’s largest cities have fallen out of step with America.
This from frontpagemag.com.
The Republican Party is lying down.
There was a time when America’s cities were symbols of progress, but they have long since become sinkholes of decline, clinging to a handful of industries that employ a tiny fraction of their population as evidence of their relevance.
When We the American People think of big cities, we think of unmanageable amounts of crime; large decaying uninhabited buildings; once beautiful glitzy shopping districts having become second-hand thrift stores, worship houses of varying repute, Family Dollar stores, massage parlors, and liquor stores; closed dilapidated gas stations having become used car lots with every vehicle at least ten years old and used tire stores; and trash and litter and stench spread thicker than a Midwest blizzard spreads snow.
The Leftist communist/globalist crime syndicate stranglehold on major cities is not evidence of hope, rather of despair. It is not a triumph for democracy, rather a sign that:
[D]emocracy no longer operates in major cities where elections are determined by networks of taxpayer-funded community groups, unions, and other organizations that act as voter turnout operations for the [Left] in exchange for power and money.
Needless to say, Republicans have in large part sadly chosen not to engage in this fight.
For example, the Omaha election is being triumphantly celebrated as a mayoral victory for their side by the Left and their colluding propaganda media. John Ewing, the Left’s candidate, beat incumbent Mayor Jean Stothert by 53,322 to 40,420 out of a population of approximately half a million. And the rest of Omaha—the majority ‘vote’—we know what they were doing.
Another example, Buttigieg built his ‘Mayor Pete’ brand by winning 80% of the vote in South Bend. But that 80% was 8,515 votes in a city of over 100,000. The Left has taken control of election systems in major cities, but:
[J]ust because the media builds cults of personalities around them does not mean they are winning the hearts and minds of the people.
Why are so few people turning out to vote? It is not merely Republicans boycotting a rigged process; it is an apolitical majority which believes the system is crooked and sees no reason to take part in it.
Republican mayors may be disappearing from major cities, but voters are disappearing even faster.
Example three, in 2023, only 35% of Chicago voters turned out for the final round of the mayoral election. In a city of 2.6 million, approximately 600,000 voted. And considering Chicago’s history of undead electioneering, who is to say how many of the 600,000 were alive. “But when the living will not vote, it falls to the dead to take their place.”
Also working against Republicans and Conservatism, the Left has made universal voting their brand. The party fights to have everyone—illegal aliens, criminals, and minors—vote. It drags out Election Day for a whole month. No excuse absentee ballots and drop boxes on every corner should have led to unprecedented levels of public participation, but instead the easier it is to vote, the less the public votes. That is because the public sees no sign of change and no reason to bother. Elections and democracy are not the same thing. Under the Soviet Union, citizens were bullied into going out to vote even though there is nothing for which to vote.
But what actually is there for Republicans to vote for in cities that would be likely to immolate themselves rather than allow a Republican to win? The question is not simply about party or even democracy. When voting for change is impossible, then voting becomes a ritual with no substance, and taking part in it validates the claim of the authorities to represent the people.
And this apparent belief of uselessness in the process is what must be changed. The number of Republican mayors will likely continue to fall for the foreseeable future, but so will the ratio of voter participation and that actually is a ‘crisis of democracy.’ Can we anticipate President Trump to take on this apparent problem during the course of the next three years? The magic of the Trump Effect is certainly needed.
In poll after poll, We the People are turning on the entire political system, but Leftists do not care as long as they can lay claim to the support of 1 in 10 members of the populace.
Benjamin Franklin famously said of the Constitutional Convention’s work that it would be a “Republic if you can keep it.”
Franklin had wanted a republic, but Democrats don’t want a democracy. And certainly not a Republic. Nor do they want any kind of government that the citizenry can keep.
America’s cities are imploding because there are no checks and balances on the corruption of a political class. Will the last urban voter turn off the lights?
