New York State has suffered badly under the House of Cuomo. Emperor Mario was disastrous. I was glad to see him go even if his replacement was a centrist wimp. But Mario’s son Andrew is deadly and doesn’t care who knows it:
What’s that you say, Andrew? It sounded a lot like this:
And lest we forget, New York sent her, a Democrat carpetbagger with no attachments to our state other than a very recently purchased house in Chappaqua, to the United States Senate.
How do people with that little conscience get elected to high positions in government? Mind you, Andrew Cuomo has no achievements outside of politics. In that regard, he’s practically the archetype of the left-wing politician. (Cf. Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton.) But he managed to become first the state’s Attorney-General, then its Governor – and he’s left a trail of destruction that may never be corrected.
How does such a thing happen? Is there no one in the Right who can beat these left-wing monsters in a New York election? Are our Boards of Election too corrupt for a Republican – and a New York Republican is more a centrist than a conservative – to beat a conscienceless, massively incompetent Democrat?
A great part of our problem is New York City. The Giuliani years, when the city experienced a renaissance that brought it back to vitality and livability, are a memory. The city is now entirely controlled by wealthy Leftists who pander shamelessly to the city’s municipal unions and its large indigent and minority populations – and the city dominates the state politically. Recent movements to break New York into three or more states are motivated almost exclusively by a desire to get the rest of us out from under the city’s hobnailed boot.
But those initiatives, like the similar ones advanced in California, have a snowball’s chance in hell of being treated seriously. Not only would they deprive Albany of serfs to mulct; they would dilute Democrat power in the United States Senate and the Electoral College. Can’t have that.
Fortunately, despite Cuomo’s high-handed, completely unjustified “mandates,” New York State has weathered the Chinese Lung Rot reasonably well. We’ve acquired a high degree of herd immunity and are on the way to shrugging the Kung Flu off completely. What we seem unable to become immune to, or to vaccinate against, is the really deadly plague, the plague that’s turning the state into a disaster even lifelong New Yorkers are fleeing in increasing numbers: the plague of Democrat totalitarians who succeed one another ad infinitam in the corridors of power. For that disease, there is no relief in sight.
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As for NYC and Giuliani, he was helped by application of Broken Windows, as well as prominent people who put their own efforts into supporting his efforts.
But, a significant part of that is Rudy himself, who was competent at the basic jobs of governance. He got the roads cleared, the streets swept and plowed, and didn’t tolerate garbage piling up. I think I saw an analysis of that time on According to Hoyt.
I’m going to spend what remains of my life working at the local/regional level. There’s probably a 50-50 chance of the Federal Government devolving into a largely ignored part of government, so I’m going to work locally, network with neighbors, and take care of my own.
A good argument for not moving after retirement is that you will lose that support network, people who know you, go to the same church, and can be counted on to give you a heads-up, should the Leftist Overlords decide to descend upon your home. That’s one argument for our moving back nearer those family members who live in Snow-and-Ice-Encrusted-Cleveland. Humans tend to look out for those in the Tribe.