Call it the Jock Resistance.
Emboldened by the
Quiet Resistance anonymous appeal for order in the White House comes this plea
from a senior official at the Ninth Street YMCA in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
The poignantly
argued position by the anonymous senior official is just the smoking gun needed
to alert the citizens of New York to the inordinate time and energy lost to the
efficient governance of our fair city by the current mayor, Bill de Blasio, who, the official advises us, spends more time working out at the Y than working on any crucial topic of
municipal business.
The anonymous
senior official of the Y points out that the mayor exchanges points of view
with personal trainers and Park Slope co-op workers alike, all of whom are of
like mind and correct opinions, while dodging calls for meetings with such
important figures as the current head of the New York City Transit Authority, Andy Byford.
Subways now run as
inefficiently as they have since the bad old days of the early ’80s. Maybe
Byford should get himself to a treadmill.
What’s more, the
mayor refuses to wholeheartedly endorse congestion pricing, or alter his own 12-mile
treks from Gracie Mansion to the gym, while seeing himself as a policy leader in fighting climate change.
Surely, as the New
York Times did with the White House mole, the newspaper will find it fit to print the anonymous appeal
for order, as honestly portrayed by this senior official at the Park Slope Y.
The person
in question is a liberal democrat bereft over the squandering of this
opportunity for real change from the office of an avowed progressive to show
the nation that a liberal path to political and social order is one that is
characterized by compassion and brotherhood, bristling with promise that the 99
percent (Remember them?) need not always see their wee-lamb gains gobbled up by giant sheepholders, the kings and queens who will countenance no real threat to the
consolidation of their insatiable appetites to acquire more and more wealth and influence,
as if society is a simple parlor game of elites, conservatives and liberals.
In a just world,
the Times will publish the anonymous letter from the Park Slope Y senior
official about the mayor’s obsession with workouts while hope-and-change work
goes undone.
Besides, Times,
the decision to lead the “Quiet Resistance” has been boffo for paper sales –
and advertising.
So bring it on.
Citizens must learn of the “Jock Resistance.”
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