There is one thing you can count on from Democrat voters in places like Burlington, Vermont. No matter how bad it gets, they’ll believe some other Democrat can make it better (the same way they claim their socialism will work ‘this time).
Mayor Miro Weinberger is not running for re-election. We can observe this transition from one failure to the next in real-time.
As regular readers know, Burlington is Vermont’s Democrat canary in the coal mine. The center of stupid in the Green Mountain State (I know some will say it is the Democrat ghetto of Montpellier, the state capital). Burlington is where bad Democrat ideas go to find life before spreading statewide, manifesting in the predictable outcomes we have seen in every other example of long-term, almost monarchic, left-wing urban rule.
Miro’s replacements will discuss higher taxes, more crime, increased homelessness, declining services, and small-business flight as they chase a nod from their future political peasants. Things Democrats did to Burlington, assuring that – no matter who is elected, under their leadership, the burning sh!t wagon will keep rolling (to enthusiastic applause).
There are few, if any, examples of Democrats making a city better. They can spend more, tax more, spend more, and tax more, but the goal of progressive politics – whether its adherents understand this or not – is destruction. There can be no other outcome. And I’ll accept that there are any number of doe-eyed Dems who believe the rhetoric despite the evidence. They feel the Bern and then act surprised when it burns. Scrambling to find more “revenue” to throw down the holes they’ve created and can never fill, but that only makes matters worse.
All Gurl Diversity
No men have stepped up to run Burlington. All the current candidates are progressive women who somehow escaped the womb and rose to prominence in the progressive ranks. Three Democrats vying to challenge a progressive for the job. Talk about diversity!
Maybe that’s the hook.
A man (Miro) ran Burlington for 12 years. It’s time for a woman’s touch (whatever that is). And so, next March, the progressive peeps in the Queen City will pick a new Marxist to manage the decline and fall of their “town.” To encourage the legislature with their embrace of bad ideas. And we’ll be here to help document it.
Knowing that there is nowhere for Burlington to go but down.
