Today’s political and social age is no longer defined by asking what we can do for our country or by taking on challenges not because they are easy, but because they are hard. Today, it’s about taking the path of least resistance, making a living for yourself and nothing more, and making sure you don’t make anyone jealous in the process.
Such juvenile thought can’t be good for a country, especially the former most-powerful nation in the world, objectively speaking. And unfortunately, it’s trickling from Washington all the way down to our local school board races.
But what happens when people stop subscribing to such nihilism and hopelessness? What happens when the masses stop ingesting the opium and realize that life isn’t meant to be easy, but that’s what makes it fulfilling?
We start demoralizing people by any means necessary and ensuring we have absolutely no faith in them, naturally.
Governor Kathy Hochul’s (D) latest Los Angeles gaffe is unfortunately too on brand for the Democratic Party as of late. Once a party that touted selflessness and tenacity now peddles the soft bigotry of lowered expectations, especially as it relates to the demographics they claim to have at the forefront of their political minds in the most bleeding-heart way possible.
Hochul was speaking at a forum of out-of-touch technocrats in Los Angeles discussing ways to revolutionize New York’s place on the technological stage, namely by becoming the first state to develop a supercomputer to attract federal research grants and top students from the country’s most prestigious institutions. We can’t fault her for trying to reach that goal, but it seems a little counterintuitive after she just tried to gut State aid for schools across Long Island in the budget.
At any rate, Hochul attempted to remind people that she does, in fact, govern a state of hard-working people and desperately tried to relate to them.
Except she ripped a page straight out of the quiet-part-out-loud section of the modern Democratic playbook, by stating that black kids in the Bronx don’t “even know what the word ‘computer’ means.
Now, the devil is always in the details, (or is it in bureaucratic government?), but unfortunately for Kathy, the context doesn’t really improve her case. She said that she wants the world “opened up to all of them, because when you have all their diverse voices innovating solutions through technology, then you’re really addressing society’s broader challenges.”
Not the worst context, but certainly not the best.
In the classic eating-their-own style of retributionary politics, Democrats quickly descended on Hochul for her comments. However, New York’s favorite race-baiter Al Sharpton quickly rushed to her aid, attempting to connect her comment to the idea that minority children are intentionally excluded from social media access based on race.
Somehow, we’re not surprised Sharpton’s comments are worse than hers.
New York City Mayor Eric Adams’ (D) response was tepid, but probably in the best way possible. He simply stated he’s not out to be the “word police” and that he “knows the Governor’s heart.”
Trust us, we don’t relish in having to be the word police, but the left started this game, and if you can’t beat them, join them (although we’re fairly confident we can beat them too).
But Adam’s lukewarm response is probably more indicative of the fact that the latest Manhattan Institute poll shows that just 16% of New Yorkers would opt to re-elect him. If his approval ratings were higher, maybe he could afford to give Hochul a more overt benefit of the doubt like Quasi-Reverend Sharpton, or maybe he could double down like other Democrats have and it wouldn’t hurt as much.
At this point, speculation isn’t worth much, especially since Democrats as of late are no strangers to these types of gaffes, although this one is unquestionably one of the worst that Hochul has had so far.
Our fearless Commander-in-Chief made multiple similar gaffes on the 2020 campaign trail. Not only did Biden say that “black kids are just as bright and talented as white kids,” possibly implying implicit bias on his part, but he actually told black voters that if they couldn’t decide whether or not they were for him or for Trump, then “you ain’t black!”
But this isn’t just relegated to the last three unfortunate years we’ve had with Biden. On the 2008 campaign trail, he made the notorious “7-11 joke,” wherein he said you can’t go into a 7-11 or Dunkin’ Donuts “unless you have a slight Indian accent.” In 2007, Biden said that Obama was the first “clean” black candidate for office.
In a 2006 speech, Hillary Clinton called minority teens “super predators” who the government had to “bring to heel.”
We could go on, unfortunately, but it seems as though there is more control in fear and anger than there is in actual policy. It’s also the prime reason the left is selling a message of hopelessness and constant impending doom. Hopelessness leads to fear, which in turn, leads to control.
But let’s give Hochul and Adams the benefit of the doubt. A great start in improving the technology sector of New York would be to control the rampant crime problem that plagues New York City. Crime, regardless of one’s race, is an attractive alternative to the bootstrap argument when it’s the path of least resistance. If we’re not teaching the next generation to do what is hard “because it is hard,” then they’re not going to put up much of a fight. We’re failing them as soon as the bell rings.
Of course, allowing crime to run rampant out of fear hurting criminals’ feelings doesn’t help. But all this time we’re spending trying to put a band-aid on a dam could be spent getting cracking on that supercomputer.
We know the Governor is a nice lady, and we don’t think she’s as Gaffe-prone like Biden has appeared over the years, but her priorities certainly need a check and her words should probably be issued on Joe Biden’s teleprompter before they come out of her mouth.
While we could give her the benefit of the doubt, as everyone does make mistakes, her party’s latest adoption of identity politics and abandoning the country’s hustle culture doesn’t do her any favors.
One thing is for certain: if all of what’s gone on in New York happened in 2022, Lee Zeldin would be governor right now.
And we’d probably have that supercomputer.
