It’s bad news that Bas holds a significant lead over her opponent, John Bauters, going into the runoff for Alameda County Board of Supervisors in District 5.
Bas is really such a horrible person. I don’t mean that as an ad hominem attack, just my judgment of her politics and the carnage it has caused to Oakland. Bas is pure, unadorned, 100% woke, meaning she’s reflexively anti-police (which makes her pro-crime), and actually enjoys Oakland becoming more run-down and poorer by the day, since it means that crowd she purports to represent, drug dealers and shoplifters, will be more likely to afford to live here, as rents and home prices plunge.
If she wins, we’ll finally be rid of Bas as a factor here in Oakland. She’ll be less likely to be able to inflict damage on us as a Supervisor than as a Council member, but the rest of the county will have inflicted on it what we have gone through here, with crime, homelessness and filth everywhere. Get ready, Fremont, Livermore and Castro Valley.
I wrack my head everyday wondering why anyone would vote for Bas, and all I can come up with is that her fans are stupid. I envision the typical Bas voter: younger than 30, “progressive” in the sense that they feel sorry for poor people of color and voting for Bas is a form of virtue signaling. But her supporters aren’t very astute politically. They don’t really follow the news and they don’t make the connection that a far-left police defunder who wants to redistribute wealth downward by force is actually not doing people of color any favors. Even Bas supporters get mugged and robbed. Even they are afraid to go out at night. And yet too many of them continue to support Bas.
Our task is simple and unwavering: to drive a stake into the body of wokedom and kill it. Now, when I say that, I don’t define woke the way a monstrous bigot like Ron DeSantis does. I’m pro-choice, pro-LGBTQ, pro-science, and I hate book banning the way I hate Hitler. When Pamela Price lies and says that people like me, who want to recall her, are rightwing MAGA neo-nazis, I just have to laugh. No, it’s the anti-cop, pro-crime and racial obsession of wokes I want to destroy. Price’s lies are absurd, of course, but so is the entire woke ideology, and the tragedy is that so many voters buy into it. Please don’t vote for Bas in District 5 if you have worries about public safety and economic vitality. Realize her for what she is: a radical, vengeful revolutionary who wants to tear down our institutions but has nothing to replace them with. Nikki Bas is using the idealism of certain voters to vault herself to power in the county, so she can do to Alamedans what she’s done to Oakland. Beware.
Steve Heimoff