Today is a good day to talk about where the Democrats should go.

The Democratic Party tolerates no dissent. If you don't toe the line, you're next in line for destruction. I'm not kidding.

This episode of my at-least-monthly podcast explains why Cuomo is the right choice for a Trump-opposed mayor of New York, and why we have to revolt against the Democratic Party as much as we need to revolt against the attempt to overthrow the Constitution by the Republican Party. Both are sadistic autocracies, only one gets called out for it, and it's time to overthrow the other model, the one controlled by journalism and wokeness. The Repubs are right about that.

Three key ideas:

• Think of voting as a chess move, not a valentine. (Rebecca Solnit in The Nation.)
• Due process is hanging by a thread. (Jessica Ramos on Twitter.)
• Journalism has to stop once it has informed people. (I said this myself in a recent blog post.)

The Martin Scorcese movie is Gangs of New York and the female star is Cameron Diaz (along with Daniel Day-Lewis and Leonardo Di Caprio).

John V. Lindsay was the doomed mayor of New York, with Robert Redford looks who was thought he could charm the NYC unions, is exactly the kind of mayor we don't need, ever, but especially not now.

"You'll know you're looking at a leader in the Democratic Party when they start running against the Democratic Party." (Again a self-quote.)

It's got to stop being fashionable to destroy people for disagreeing with you.

Working together. That's it.

PS: Reporters who hate ChatGPT should get over it. It's fantastic for finding references for quotes, far better than a search engine. See above. I found both sources for the quotes I used with links in about a minute using AI.

PPS: There's a post-election followup podcast episode. No spoilers! :-)