Sweeenie's Take, Episode 16. Paris in Flames and Radicalism v Rationality

I think at this point in my life, having done 16 episodes of these and being in the milieu of New York, I think what I'm starting to feel and sense as I'm walking outside of my neighborhood all the time is a very true sense, and again, this is anecdotal and people will criticize me for that, of a rising, slow, but nonetheless, percipient, Rising in common sense, okay? What we're seeing right now with how far left and radical the left has gone and the DSA and the reactionaries in that faction gaining more and more power and gaining more and more influence and gaining more and more gravita as it pertains to the Democratic Party, What we're seeing is more and more Americans, or what I'm seeing is more and more Americans starting to wake up and realize that they have let the wrong people into the house.

And I don't mean that at all to be xenophobic.

I mean that to be on a mental basis, meaning Zorah Mamdani, and I talked about this in my last episode, was joined by Kathy Hochul and numerous members of, let's just call it the DNC High Command, demanding that the federal government release a machete-wielding career criminal pumping crack, cocaine, fentanyl, and heroin with an arrest for a violent crime, demanding that the federal government release him from custody to let him free back out in these streets.

Now, I've said this many times before, and I'll say it again because it's very much so worth repeating.

Reasonable minds might be able to disagree, reasonable minds, on whether someone who comes here illegally but nonetheless loves America, keeps their head down, finds a way, despite their being here undocumented and illegally, finds a way to pay taxes, a lot of them do, and genuinely came here in dire straits and want to contribute to this country and are value adding, I think reasonable minds can disagree on whether or not there should be some pathway for those folks to stay, especially for folks who've been there for 20 years.

Now, the other side of the coin is what type of standard and incentive would we be setting if we let those folks stay? What would that say to everyone else on our southern border, which houses not only Mexico, but Central and South America, if we incentivized and legitimized the folks that were here illegally? That obviously creates the carrot in front of the horse and a massive incentive for people to come across our southern border, okay? So reasonable minds can disagree on that group of folks.

Reasonable minds can't disagree, I don't think, on violent people who are breaking our laws staying here.

And with the recent events of late, of this DNC High Command taking that road, I am starting to sense that more and more people are starting to say, hey, we've gone a little bit too far.

And I think Paris, what we're seeing right now, and I'm going to talk a lot about Paris in this episode, is inextricably linked to the same leftist mindset.

Open borders, very much so against broken window policing, very much so against law and order.

At every iteration, Macron, Mandani, all of the left-leading elites personas in American politics these days, in this day and age, and we're seeing it in Europe and we're seeing it here, at every turn they are against the police and they are pro the dregs of our society, pro the takers and anti the makers.

And I think New Yorkers, and I speak from a small corner of the internet, are starting to understand and see this.

And I think Bruce Blakeman is a great example of this because he'd said something the other day, which resonated with me because it's my personal experience too, where he says, I get stopped all the time.

This is Bruce talking and I'll play the clip later.

He gets stopped all the time and folks say to him, I have, Bruce, I've never voted Republican a day in my life.

I now feel like I have no choice but to go there.

And I resonate with that.

Just give me a moment here.

Make sure this is going.

And I resonate with that because I went through the same process myself.

I had never voted Republican for many, many, many years of my life until I want to say around post Obama, when the left just started leaning head and shoulders into this wokeism, this cancel culture, this culture war.

And I started seeing myself as being demonized and villainized and scapegoated and this pervasive, pernicious white guilt mentality overtaking America.

And I felt truly displaced because at least at that point in my mind, I view the Republican Party as racist in some ways, at least it housed the racist.

It's not to say I thought every Republican was racist, but I thought every racist was Republican.

And I was in this sort of limbo and sort of this free fall where I was like, I don't really, I feel politically homeless.