Sometime, soon, a bewildered operative from the bowels of the State Department, with acquaintances in British Intelligence or thereabouts, will write an internal memo, which may then be the subject of a several-parts substack or other utterance. It will be called, “Did the Democratic Party Just Get ‘LaRouched’ by Zohran Mamdani?” Perhaps “Russiagate’s” Rachel Maddow will volunteer for the job.
It is provisionally correct, in a certain sense, to characterize the shocking (to some) results of yesterday’s New York Democratic Party primaries as the long arc of “the Vega effect.” This is not to say that the various anti-Gaza genocide, anti-Iran war and anti-AIPAC candidates who swept to victory were elected because of Jose Vega. Far from it: most of those candidates have little agreement with the policy outlook of the Vega campaign, or its LaRouche roots, though they may well agree with certain of its objectives, in a superficial sense. The immediate effect, the victories, is largely, and correctly, attributed to efforts of the 34-year-old Mayor of New York, Zohran Mamdani and his supporters.
It is, however, crucial—if one wants to actually understand what is really going on—to point out that it was the “calling out” by the 23-year old Jose Vega of the hypocrisy of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC) and the ostensibly anti-war “progressive Democrats” for their full-throated support of NATO’S “Ukraine War” in 2022, that first captured the attention, and the imagination, of former Bernie Sanders and other Democratic voters. It made them aware of an underlying potential—it was possible to speak the truth, defying the silence of the sell-outs. Commentators from the “left” and “right” played the intervention on a stunned, because caught, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Her former supporters had been disgusted with the performance of the “sell-out” AOC, and other members of “the Squad,” in their first anti-climactic “no-show-down” with Nancy Pelosi on the issue of forcing a vote on “Medicare For All” in January of 2021.
One year later, the Vega “smack-down” of AOC “went viral” through the efforts of several of those former Bernie Sanders supporters, now podcasters. It became a “template” for what has now become, as of yesterday’s “blow-out” attack on AIPAC, the basis for a virtual panic among Democratic Party apparatchiks, like Vega’s forlorn opponent the former vice-chair of the Democratic National Committee, and former (actually, current) AIPAC supporter Michael Blake. These “dead souls,” distraught about not being able to any longer ensure the reliability of behavior of “their”mistreated electorate, have denounced the new, insurgent winners as “interlopers” on the Democratic Party plantation.
New York Attorney General Letitia James said: “Some of the candidates that (Mamdani) has supported are individuals who do not understand the politics of New York City, the cultural differences from district to district, who have not been part of the history and the struggle of some of these districts, and are relatively new to the body politic.” The Hill ran the headline, “Letitia James Blasts Mamdani For ‘Blowing Up’ Democratic Party.”
Jamie Harrison, former chair of the DNC, sneered, “I say this with no ill will or animosity: if you hate the Democratic Party, then please don’t run for our nomination. Don’t use our resources. Don’t rely on our volunteers. Don’t use our infrastructure. Don’t ask Democrats to invest their time, money, and energy in your campaign. Focus on building the party you actually support.”
It should be remembered that in Jose Vega’s first debate with former DNC vice-chairman Michael Blake, the “freak out” moment occurred when Vega asserted that he would vote for Democrat Ro Khanna, Republican Thomas Massie, or retired Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene for Speaker before he would support Democrat Hakim Jeffries, because of their support for the release of the Epstein files, and their opposition to the Ukraine and Iran wars as well as the genocide in Gaza. Democratic and Republican Party functionaries, however, cannot recognize that there are presently more independent, but unorganized voters in this country than any other constituency.
The victories won by several anti-AIPAC candidates in yesterday’s New York City-based Democratic Party primary elections, for example, could not have occurred without significant support for those candidates from Jewish Democratic Party voters. Three Congressional and five state assembly candidates, all endorsed by newly elected New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, won their races. But there is, as the late economist, statesman and veteran political candidate Lyndon LaRouche used to say, a ‘higher geometry” at work. The Mayor played a central role, but the change indicated by the outcome is “of a different physics” than those notable victories might suggest.
The Democratic primary victories came the same day that longtime Republican Party figure Tucker Carlson announced that he could no longer support that Party, due to its “Israel First” stance, and its de-facto fostering of wars contrary to the interests of the United States itself, such as the supremely stupid Iran war. Former Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene immediately echoed Carlson’s sentiment, indicating that a similar but different divide has now emerged there as well. The recent exit from the Trump Administration of former United States Presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard, once an official of the Democratic National Committee, should also be considered.
Each of these phenomena, however, are but the footprints of a potential upshift in the political intelligence of the United States electorate. Twenty five years of “post 9/11” blind support for no-win-war, not only as a substitute for diplomacy, but as, increasingly, the primary export of America to the world, has fissured, if not fundamentally cracked. The control heretofore exercised by throwing tens of millions of dollars into Congressional races in order to outright buy the seats for AIPAC, in the style of 15th-century Ferrara, Milan or Florence, is increasingly too embarrassingly transparent for even the sleepiest of American voters.
The New York City shift has significant international implications in the short term, including in the ongoing negotiations regarding Iran, Lebanon, and the war crimes being committed in Gaza, where over a thousand Palestinians, over half of them women and children, have been killed since the cease-fire. The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel has just issued a new report which states that the attacks “form part of a deliberate strategy to destroy the future of the Palestinians in Gaza by targeting their children.” This “sea change” in public support is spreading panic in Israel, particularly in the ranks of the “crazies” faction. Originating in New York City’s Brooklyn in the 1960s, this Israeli faction is associated with the assassinated arch-racist Meir Kahane, whose organizations, the JDL and the Koch Party were labeled as terrorist by the United States government. Itamar Ben-Gvir, the Minister of National Security and head of the Jewish Power Party, is a self-professed follower of Kahane, who was assassinated in New York City in 1990.
The Democratic Party’s overseeing of the ugly, Gaza-like depopulation of the Bronx, acting on behalf of the Wall Street financial forces that have been dismantling that and other sections of New York City since the days of the 1970s “planned shrinkage” is about to end. But it is a tough fight. In the just concluded Bronx Democratic primary, 38,000 of the over 302,000 registered Democratic voters, about 12.2 %, voted. That turnout is a textbook example of what is termed “plantation politics.” The Vega campaign therefore now moves into its second phase—an officially independent candidacy which will make its central focus bringing the optimism of Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas, and Helga Zepp-LaRouche’s “Ten Principles For A New Security And Development Architecture” to the people of the Bronx.
The people of the Bronx must learn how to wield “the Vega effect.” When people feel helpless, it sometimes helps to tell them a story.
A famous scene from an Italian spaghetti Western of the 1960s, For A Few Dollars More, turns upon two identical time-pieces—two watches. They each play the same tune. The villain possesses one, and his opponent, the other. The villain, after “getting the drop” on his opponent, pulls out his time-piece. “When the chimes stop, reach for your weapon,” he says. But his opponent and soon-to-be victim’s weapon is on the ground, out of reach, and not retrievable in time. Suddenly, just as the chimes are about to end, the exact same music is heard coming from a second time-piece. How?
Another man, “the man with no name,” enters the scene, holding the second time-piece in his hand. It had been dropped in the course of earlier gun battles. In his other hand, he holds a rifle, aimed at the villain. He walks up to the intended victim, unbuckles his side-arm and holster, gives it to him, and then announces, “Now, we start.”
That is “the Vega effect.” Now, we start.
