I’m a registered Democrat.
Some of you may find this surprising. The reason is purely tactical: I am registered in New York City, where any conservative vote is just a drop in the left-wing ocean, so the best I can hope to do is to exert a microscopic influence, in the Democratic primaries, to support the candidates I consider the lesser evil.*
When we got back to Brooklyn last night after several weeks’ absence, we found a note in the mail from the New York State Democratic Committee. Here’s what it said:
My! I’m not at all sure I like their tone. That their “organizations” have been “monitoring” our voting, and are “disappointed” in our “inconsistent” performance would be creepy enough all by itself, but that closing remark is downright menacing. I thought the Democrats were supposed to be the party of moral uplift and selfless benefaction; this sounds more like the Yakuza.
Meanwhile, over at the Times, we find today an Op-Ed entitled Cancel the Midterms.
It seems that “things” are, to paraphrase a vulgar expression, “getting real”. Don’t say you weren’t warned.
* Note to NRx readers: Yeah, yeah, I know.
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You might Malcolm, address a missive in the direction of one Hal Malchow expressing your displeasure.
I don’t know how the mail recipients of Ozark (Greene County) Missouri came by that name – many got the same sort of thing, making such a fuss it made the local TV news – but if the proverbial his ears must be burning holds water, Hal’s likely sitting in some ER somewhere.
http://ricochet.com/archives/hal-malchow-nearly-made-me-cry/
Truly a chilling note. Vee have vays of vatching you sir.
Of course, if the NYT was looking at a Democratic landslide, there would be no talk of “Cancelling the Midterms”. But of course, we all know that. The Left has always just been about “Who, Whom” but it’s interesting to see it expressed in such an open manner.