Does the St. Patrick’s Day Parade Need Mayors?

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The left-wing mayors of New York and Boston have announced that they won’t march in the St. Patrick’s Day parades of their respective cities unless those parades get turned into gay pride parades.

Bill de Blasio may instead march in an alternative drag queen parade which sounds about right. Mayor Walsh will spend the day trying to get the foot out of his mouth.

Somewhere along the way radical buffoons like Bill de Blasio (aka William Wilhelm Jr.) and Martin Walsh have forgotten why mayors march in parades. The mayors aren’t honoring the parade by showing up, they’re soliciting support and trying to win the goodwill of whichever ethnic community they’re pandering to on that given day.

Bill de Blasio and Martin Walsh have decided that their positions are secure enough that they can tell traditional Irish Catholics to go to hell. That’s their choice and they’ll lose or gain from it. The choice will not affect the parade in any way.

Parades don’t benefit from mayors showing up. Mayors benefit from showing up to parades. Mayor Walsh and Bill de Blasio have decided that New York and Boston are no longer working class and they can ignore the people and focus on their wealthy gay donors. Maybe they’re right, but more likely they’re wrong.

Bill de Blasio’s popularity rating is down to 51%. The parade doesn’t need him. He needs it. The St. Patrick’s Day parade organizers would be doing William Wilhelm Jr. a favor by letting him march, but Bill de Blasio acted like he was the the one doing them a favor.

And like most left-wing fanatics, he won’t realize that until it’s too late.