News: May 22, 2022. Another death in the City. A senseless random shooting again. A middle aged man riding on the Q train coming into NYC for lunch in mid town is shot and killed by an unknown gunman on the subway.
And this appears too:
Newly elected Mayor Adams has been “toying” with the idea of running for President. What hutzpah!
With President Biden’s poll numbers in the basement, and a concerned and fearful nation watching anxiously as again and again the gaff-prone- and elderly Biden shuffles across the stage making tough sounding statements, but which are quickly walked back, denied or retracted by the “White House” as another “misstatement”. I suspect that politicians, in any elected office, even novice-mayor Adams, just assume that “they” could do better than Biden.
But Adams —“the candidate who was going to get tough on crime”—has generated little more than “tough talk”. He has operated so far as a highly visible but “do little Mayor” who for all of his five months, has played footsie with the radical-progressive ideologues in Albany who from their ivory tower make life difficult and dangerous for what they see as the grubby downstate city dwellers.
Adam’s fantasy about running for President would be laughable if it were not so frighteningly revealing about the Mayor’s thought processes and state of mind. Is he really cognizant of the awful plight of the citizens who must get to work, or how frightening the crime situation is? Or is the mayor at his half year point just realizing how daunting the job is? And in a state of self delusion has drifted into some future fantasy world where his inflated concept of his own abilities actually match the demands made on them?
Or has he come to realize that to actually succeed in NYC at lowering the surging violence and a crime rate, now topping the 40% mark, is going to take a great deal more than the bluster, the —circus act—he has been performing so far. It will take real tough talk..
Adams has to get tough with Albany’s entrenched progressives to pull out a win. He must push his puny weight around a great deal more than he has so far— to be a success. But that may mean making political enemies on the left. Is that “off his route” for “pipe dreaming’ Adams? A mayor who is thinking about higher office after only five months, might be looking too far over the horizon for the well being or survival of the great old City.
Get tough Mayor Adams! Or are you and your pipe dreams are toast, and will take the city down with you.
A City where folks can ride the subway to work or come to town and go to lunch in mid-town without getting shot…that might be part of a national platform for a former Mayor…who knows?
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