Progressive New York City Mayor Blah Blah Bill de Blasio is regressing all the more. Not content to rally for horses, not just bringing a bevy of higher taxes, now he is waging war on charter schools, St. Patrick's Day, and the traditional, civic holiday calendar.
About charter schools, De Blasio has declared war against the successful education reforms, according to the New York Post. Specifically, the city is prepared to transfer $210 million intended for charter schools to invest in opening up 2,000 seats for public school pre-kindergarten. This infantile move is all about creating more union jobs for the "progressive" mayor's political machine. More union jobs, more union dues, more easy donations to the Democratic Party. "Boss" Tweed must be weeping in heaven (or in Hell's Kitchen) that he never engineered so easy a political machinery chicanery.
Of course, not only will students in hard-hit, lower income areas suffer, since non-union, privately-owned charter schools have helped close the achievement gap while offering struggling students a better education free from bureaucratic micromanaging and politicized domineering. De Blasio's selfish stunt against public education cannot go unchecked.
Then there's the brouhaha over St. Patrick's Day. As if the Irish saint's move to rid Ireland of all serpents was not enough, another snake in city hall has declared his refusal to march in New York City's St. Patty's Day Parade. The snake is De Blasio, and his reason? The parade organizers have refused to permit openly gay members to march and demonstrate their "pride." Twenty years ago, uber-liberal David Dinkins boycotted the parade (no one gave a dink), and De Blasio, casting some gold coins to his leftist supporters, is following suit.
The rainbow has seven colors, and leads to a pot of gold for all, according to Irish legend. For the NYC mayor, though, the rainbow of gay pride (minus the indigo) should rise and cover the parade, too.
William Donohue, president of the Catholic League, did not take the slight sitting down, but getting his Irish dander up, punched back, “delighted” to avoid “a public official who does not want to be associated with Irish Catholics.” Donohue further clarified the situation, responding that individuals and group floats must honor the saint, and cannot tout their own agenda in the parade.
Virulent liberals are beginning to realize that pandering to one interest group in the name of the oft-misunderstood concept of "fairness" will garner calls of bigotry and unfairness from other groups, including many of New York City's Irish-Catholics, the majority of whom do not approve of gay marriage, and whose leaders reject homosexuality as an internal disordered form of conduct. Despite the confused spin of the Mainstream Media, populist Pope Francis does not endorse homosexuality, either, but remarks that condemnation is not the way to reach out to anyone with the Gospel.
De Blasio is boycotting the Irish-American parade, yet in spirit he is affirming the Irish-Americans in his city, as “boycott” is an Irish invention, to begin with, so the joke’s on Mayor Blah-Blah.
And speaking of pandering to minorities, De Blasio has offered to extend the number of religious holidays in the academic year to include the Lunar New Year and the Muslim holidays Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha, according to the New York Daily News. For a man who wants to promote gay rights, does the mayor realize that the Muslim religion also dismisses homosexuality as sin? Remarkable. In the vested interests of inclusion, liberals end up offending the very diversity of interest groups whom they claim to care about. Not only that, but De Blasio has reserved judgment on Hindu holidays. What would Vishnu and the God Genash say? At this rate, the liberal mayor might as well as extended holiday status to every day in the school year, since New York teacher are resisting Common Core, and public schools in general are not offering the general education that New York students need to compete in a global economy.
Besides the disruption to the academic school year, De Blasio claims that he is not an atheist, but spiritual (not religious), and thus unaffiliated. Perhaps he’s ecumenical and holistic in his views on the supernatural, yet his affront to life, conservatives, and ethnic groups in New York City demonstrate that his professed religious, secular liberalism, is not just his rallying point, but a belief system which he is pressed to impose on the NYC populace.
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From attacking charter schools (and public education freedom and access) to insulting Irish-American New Yorkers in his vain attempt to curry favor with his leftist comrades and the vocal gay-rights movement, to his insistence on broadening the recognized religious holidays, Blah Blah De Blasio’s liberal lunacy knows no bounds (or boundaries, and perhaps explains his rush to recognize the Lunar New Year!)
