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   On 08 Dec 2021, Rudy Canoza  puked some   
   news:0M8sJ.108778$SW5.12026@fx45.iad:   
      
   > All Democratic party members need their heads bashed in with   
   > ballbats.   
      
   Fresh signs of the tide turning against New York’s leftist cadres keep   
   popping up.   
      
   Consider the lackluster results in the first two days of early voting for   
   the June 27 primaries for the City Council, DA slots and judgeships.   
      
   Fewer than 10,000 Gothamites voted in that window. But as one veteran   
   consultant put it: Why turn out when “most of the races are not contested   
   and it’s in the interest of the incumbents that no one turnout because   
   then they’ll be reelected”?   
      
   In other words: One-party rule by lefty machines is driving Big Apple   
   Democratic voters into numb apathy. They know that even most primaries   
   give them no alternatives to the same old disastrous policies on policing,   
   public schools, public health and more.   
      
   Yet there are some signs of political life. Take one of the few seriously   
   contested races — for a new, majority-Asian Council district (the city’s   
   first) in Brooklyn.   
      
   Susan Zhuang, a longtime Democratic operative fighting for the seat, was   
   caught on tape telling a potential constituent that “My ideas are the   
   ideas of the Republican Party.”   
      
   She wasn’t specific, but her thrust was clear: Fund the police, save the   
   schools from the teachers unions and free the city (and state) from the   
   terrible economic policies holding back their recovery.   
      
   Susan Zhuang, a longtime democrat, said her ideas were largely republican.   
   Friends of Susan Zhuang   
   She even dinged her opponent Wednesday for accepting the endorsement of   
   the anti-Israel CUNY faculty union — highlighting yet another issue where   
   Democrats’ embrace of far-left stances infuriates many once-loyal Dem   
   voters.   
      
   It’s no coincidence that Zhuang (sincerely or not) was calling herself a   
   Republican to score votes in the district: The Democratic Party is   
   alienating Asian voters with its fervid embrace of anti-meritocratic   
   education policies and pro-crime stances on public safety (with a healthy   
   dash of anti-Asian racism); these communities’ swing rightward is perhaps   
   the biggest local political sea-change of the decade.   
      
   Indeed, the voters (overwhelmingly registered Democrats) in this district   
   backed GOPer Curtis Sliwa over Eric Adams in the 2021 mayoral race.   
      
   Republicans netted three City Council seats in the last election. REUTERS   
   Those forces also contributed to Republicans’ gains in the last City   
   Council elections, where they netted three seats (including one post-   
   election, due to a surprise defection from now-ex-Dem Ari Kagan). GOP gov   
   candidate Lee Zeldin got creamed in deep-blue Manhattan, but vastly   
   overperformed in some outer-borough areas — managing to win in some Asian-   
   majority districts in Queens and Brooklyn.   
      
   That shift (and swings in other communities, too) can be seen clearly in   
   the massive victory enjoyed by Parent Leaders for Accelerated Curriculum   
   and Education (PLACE) in the late-spring elections to the Citywide and   
   Community Educational Councils, parent-run bodies with a strong voice in   
   district-level school governance.   
      
   Nearly three-fourths of the candidates PLACE endorsed won. That means some   
   40% of CEC seats will be filled by parents elected for supporting rigorous   
   standards-based education with advanced instruction for all those capable   
   of keeping up and merit-based admissions to selective schools.   
      
   That is, for opposing the endless effort to degrade and ultimately   
   eliminate all school standards in the name of “equity” — a central project   
   of progressive Democrats.   
      
   Meanwhile, a left-liberal parent group, Parents for Middle School Equity,   
   saw a humiliating electoral rebuke.   
      
   Make no mistake: These are green shoots, not a full-circle turn.   
      
   But they sure show New Yorkers getting sick of woke tyranny, and the   
   increasingly broad appeal of “Republican” (i.e. sane and sensible) ideas   
   in Gotham’s politics.   
      
   So if our lefty overlords don’t correct course soon, they may well be   
   looking for new jobs.   
      
   https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/signs-new-yorkers-are-getting-fed-   
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