The Circus Returns to Town
The same politicians who wrecked New York now want another shot at it
April Fools’ Day isn’t for another month, but I just saw that yet another clown is throwing their hat in the ring for mayor of New York City.
There’s only one thing that would keep me here after my son settles into his dorm at George Washington University in late August—depending on his financial aid package—and that would be a drum chair on a smash-hit Broadway show. If that doesn’t happen, there is absolutely no reason for me to stay. Zero. None.
I’m seriously looking into a square job in Vegas because I refuse to live under the control of the same person who once told people like me to go get an “essential worker” job while single-handedly wrecking everything I worked for as a musician during the pandemic. And now, after all that, he wants to run the very city he helped ruin back when he was locked in a ridiculous power struggle with the former mayor—who, in his own slow, steady way, ran the place into the ground with his obsession over bike lanes, bus lanes, and virtue-signaling street paintings.
Let’s not forget the policies that gutted law enforcement, drove businesses out, let crime rise unchecked, and turned once-thriving neighborhoods into chaotic messes. And now, somehow, these same people think they deserve another shot at running things?
Clayton Craddock is a devoted father of two, an accomplished musician, and a thought-provoker dedicated to Socratic questioning, challenging the status quo, and encouraging a deeper contemplation on various issues. Subscribe to Think Things Through HERE, and for inquiries and to connect, email him here: Clayton@claytoncraddock.com.