The Political Island That Is New York City
The Democratic Party is fighting a two-front war. On the one side, you have the obvious Republican opposition. A party that is openly embracing fascism and is committed to ending our democracy as we know it. A party that lies with reckless abandon because it knows it controls enough media that its lies will never be truly challenged. A party that is one giant Ponzi scheme whose members get into elected office through millions of dollars of dark money and promptly use that elected office to provide as many kickbacks and tax breaks as is humanly possible. A party that uses its judicial influence to undermine progress made over the last half-century for people of color, women, immigrants, refugees, and non-Catholics. A party that rejects science and history because they "love the uneducated" and see their lack of critical thinking skills as necessary in having them vote against their own best interests time and time again. This is not the party of Lincoln, Reagan, or even Georg...
