Every major American city that surrenders to single-party Democratic rule follows the same dreary script. Services rot. Encampments multiply. Taxes go up while the roads fall apart. And when residents finally get angry enough to demand change, they don’t pivot toward common sense. They lurch further left. No viable opposition party means no guardrails – just a slow, predictable slide into radicalism.

Los Angeles is living proof. The city has been battered by catastrophic wildfires, surging crime, and a homeless crisis that makes a mockery of every mayoral promise. It desperately needs a reset. Instead, Angelenos may be on the verge of handing their city to a card-carrying member of the Democratic Socialists of America – because the Democratic establishment left them nowhere else to go.

From Fox News:

A new poll indicates socialist Los Angeles Council member Nithya Raman has opened up a double-digit lead over Democratic Mayor Karen Bass with six weeks to go until Election Day.

Raman, a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), stands at 39% support among likely Los Angeles voters in the race for mayor, with Bass at 28%, according to a University of California Berkeley Institute of Government Studies/Los Angeles Times poll released on Wednesday.

Those numbers should stop every American in their tracks. But one person isn’t even slightly surprised.

Spencer Pratt – yes, the reality TV star – ran for mayor as a conservative-leaning independent and pulled a stunning 26% in the June primary before being eliminated. He warned, loudly and repeatedly, that Bass was too damaged to survive a one-on-one fight with Raman. Nobody in the political class listened. They rarely do.

“I told everyone that if you don’t vote for me, Raman will beat Bass. That’s why she entered the race 10 minutes before the clerk’s office closed. She knew I was gonna destroy Bass 1-on-1. Good luck LA,” Pratt posted after the poll dropped.

Then he twisted the knife – deservedly so. “Raman is Karen’s karma. Stabbed in the back by the commie she campaigned for, took pictures with her family… the moment Nithya saw an opening, she knifed Karen. Good lesson to all you democrats: NEVER trust the DSA. Socialists have no morals. They’ll gut you, too.”

Colorful? Sure. But the man has receipts.

Bass has nobody to blame but herself

Mayor Bass drags a brutal 63% unfavorable rating. Only 28% of LA residents view her positively. The reasons aren’t mysterious. Fifty-six percent of likely voters rated her response to the 2025 Palisades fire – which killed twelve people and leveled more than 4,000 homes, including Pratt’s – as poor or very poor. Street-level misery has grown citywide on her watch. The Lineage warehouse fire in Boyle Heights burned for nearly a week, leaving rotting food and a nauseating stench hanging over the neighborhood for more than a month. Another failure. Another headline.

Her response to the poll? She dismissed it as “one outlier” and insisted she’s still “in it to win.” Spoken like someone who’s already lost and hasn’t admitted it yet.

A socialist with momentum and a machine behind her

Raman, meanwhile, is stacking wins. She snagged the DSA’s official endorsement, locked down the carpenters’ union and Unite Here Local 11, and watched homelessness actually drop in her own council district. Convenient talking point – and an effective one.

The generational numbers are genuinely alarming. Raman commands 66% of voters aged 18 to 29 and 64% of those 30 to 39. Bass leads only among the 65-and-older crowd. The socialist recruitment pipeline is humming along precisely as intended.

And here’s the part that should sting Bass most: she personally campaigned for Raman’s 2024 council re-election. She boosted the very woman now burying her. Pratt’s “karma” framing isn’t just rhetoric. It’s an accurate description.

Pratt’s people hold all the leverage

The most consequential group in this race isn’t committed to either candidate. Sixty-three percent of Pratt’s primary voters remain undecided. Among those who have picked a side, Bass edges Raman only slightly – 22% to 16%. These are people who already rejected the Democratic establishment once. Where they land determines everything.

Los Angeles is showing the rest of America, in vivid and painful detail, what happens when a great city has no real political competition. The vacuum doesn’t stay empty. Radicals fill it. Spencer Pratt – an unconventional messenger, to put it mildly – saw it coming before anyone else. The question is whether enough Angelenos will listen before they wake up with a DSA mayor running the show.

Key Takeaways

• A DSA socialist now leads the LA mayor’s race by double digits with no clear path for Bass to recover.
• Spencer Pratt predicted this exact outcome months ago – the political establishment dismissed him.
• One-party Democratic rule doesn’t produce moderation; it creates openings for radical leftism.
• Pratt’s undecided voter bloc will likely determine whether Los Angeles gets a socialist mayor.

Sources: Fox News, Los Angeles Times