“There’s plenty of money in this world, there’s plenty of money in this country,” says New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio. “It’s just in the wrong hands.”
With his favorite Marxist call to arms, de Blasio entered the Democratic presidential primary race on Thursday. His announcement video isn’t exactly glorious.
It begins with de Blasio being driven around, observing that New Yorkers “look the same whether they’re really pissed off at you or they like you.” Considering the mayor’s toxic relationship with the New York Police Department, we can assume his police driver, at least, is really pissed off with him.
De Blasio’s ‘anyway the wind blows, doesn’t really matter to me, I’m just a normal guy’ shtick established, he explains how he is a liberal god. He has delivered a $15 minimum wage, guaranteed healthcare, and free pre-K coverage. And of course, he embraced the other liberal god, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal. We are not told how much these things cost. Nor does de Blasio bother to mention that minimum wage laws actually increase unemployment rates, especially for the young and unskilled.
But this video isn’t about facts, it’s about posturing. Mayor de Blasio transitions to various shots of glum looking actors. We are not told whether they are sad because they have just seen de Basio, only that they are sad. The “rich got richer,” de Blasio tells us, but most “people feel stuck, or even like they’re going backwards.” This might be news to most Americans who, thanks to Republicans doing the exact opposite of de Blasio pledges, are now seeing record employment rates (minorities and the low-skilled included). But de Blasio doesn’t care. This is the politics of anger. We see a migrant boy surrounded by armed border patrol officers. The video zooms in on the child’s helpless face.
The mayor’s video finally ends with a call to his campaign motto: “Working people first.”
Try “Working people forgotten.”
