It's election season.
On Primary night, September 9, 2026, Rhode Island's capital city took a sharp left turn - careening toward a precipice with deliberate yet gleeful determination that guarantees self-destruction.
Voters chose David Morales, a 28-year old Democrat socialist child - who doesn't have a real job, just a smarmy smirk and ivy league education - over sitting Democrat Mayor Brett Smiley. I shake my head because the prevailing issue was apparently rent control - you know, that failed communist theory that makes everything more expensive under the pretense it's about "affordable" housing.
Rhode Island has become increasingly more politically suicidal in recent years. Instead of recognizing the perils at every single level of progressive democrat socialist tantrums-turned-legislation, voters instead embrace the dangers, seek them, support them with money they don't really have anymore but hope they can recoup in government handouts and "free stuff."
Although this mental illness certainly predates 2020, I wonder if the (nationwide!) acceleration has anything to do with COVID vaccines. We already know the shots didn't work against the disease. But could they have instead immunized recipients against logical self-interest and prosperity, as well as inoculated them against genuine caring for neighbors and community? They seem to only love fellow miserable idiots, but show utter contempt and derision for anyone even moderately industrious and self-sufficient... dependency and entitlement are the traits they admire.
Despite my initial instinct to laugh at the lunacy of such a chain of thoughts, I don't think I will laugh because it seems hauntingly plausible, considering how many people have lost their minds recently.
In any event, Providence seems lost. The Providence City Council is lop-sided with "community organizers" - in other words, unemployed. Of the 15 council members, there may be three real jobs among them. SMH. This is bad news for the rest of the state, of course, particularly the wealthier communities, because they (we all) will be tapped to bail out Providence. That is especially a risk considering Morales is a former state representative.
There is a Republican candidate (Dave Talan) in the election on November 3. I only mention it because there is always a chance hell could freeze over in the "Battle of the Davids." But know there is no spark, no fire. Absolutely no Goliath here.
