A RARE DEMOCRATIC VOICE:  All right, the State of the Union is history.  We can return to the real world. 

A story today tells of the plight of Eric Adams, the mayor of New York, who is trying his best to govern an ungovernable city.  He had the unspeakable audacity to speak the truth to his party, and look what happened.   From Fox: 

New York City Mayor Eric Adams accused woke Democrats of driving away minority voters during an appearance on MSNBC Wednesday.

While responding to President Biden's State of the Union, Mayor Adams said "There’s a hemorrhaging of our Latino community, our AAPI communities, that’s leaving the traditional Democratic base, because we’ve allowed the loudest and those who consider themselves to be ‘woke.’"

He continued, "Some of us never went to sleep, and we hear and speak directly to people, and I think the party is now understanding that we have to speak at those issues that are important: Jobs, public safety, educating our children, good health care, just these common kitchen table issues that we run away from."

Adams made the case that Biden did a good job in his speech by moving away from "woke" rhetoric in favor of focusing on kitchen table issues.

"This president’s focus on working people is exactly what the nation needs, and his focus on helping Americans care for their children, provide for their families, and put money in their wallets will resonate from coast to coast," Adams released in a statement following the address. "The agenda he laid out goes hand-in-hand with what we are doing in New York City — this is a blue-collar president, I’m a blue-collar mayor, and we’re both pursuing a blue-collar agenda for working people in New York and across the rest of the nation."

In an otherwise sound statement, the mayor exaggerates the role of President Biden in keeping the Democratic Party focused on real issues.  I hear the rhetoric, but I really don't see the effort.

Tony Melone, a spokesman for the New Kings Democrats, a left-leaning faction within the Brooklyn Democratic Party, questioned why Adams would echo Republican rhetoric while talking about members of his party.

"Perhaps the Democratic mayor of NYC shouldn’t amplify Republican talking points on national TV?" Melone wrote on Twitter.

 And...

Since being elected to office, Adams, who was a registered Republican between 1997 and 2001, has clashed repeatedly with progressive wings of his party.

Jeremy Cohan, a co-chairman of the New York City chapter of Democratic Socialists of America, has claimed Adams has done nothing for the working class and people of color.

In remarks to a group of business and civic leaders on Wall Street in December, Adams took shots at progressives who want to tax the wealthy at a higher rate.

"It blows my mind when I hear, ‘So what if they leave?’ No, you leave!" Adams said of progressives questioning why the city needs ultra-wealthy residents. "I want my high-income earners right here."

COMMENT:  If leftist Democrats would embrace Mayor Adams, and help him to clean up the city, all would be better off.  But leftist Democrats have an ideology, and, in their Marxist heads, ideology is above everything.  That attitude is killing their party, and severely damaging the country. 

February 8-9, 2023