New York is dying. The Democrats are currently the ones injecting the poison, but the Republicans have a lot to answer for also. I guess the fair thing to say would be that "politics" is the venom cursing through the veins of the once mighty "Empire State".
The quality of the politics today is so bad that words can't really capture the blend of stupidity, greed and malice that infect the nexus between those who are led and those who rule. Politics is bad today because the quality of our politicians has markedly deteriorated primarily due to political correctness and the fear of the average person to venture an opinion that could be contrued as racist, sexist or homophobic. It is still safe however to criticize Jews and Catholics... proving only that Freud, Doctor Spock and Saul Alinsky have had a bigger influence on present day politics than Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson or Reagan.
From 1990 to the present over 3,000,000 New Yorkers left the state and those who partially replaced them had incomes that were 13% lower. This helped to kill our revenue base but the faux leadership in Albany just kept raising taxes and proposing bond offerings believing that even as manufacturing fled to greener pastures, the urban economic engine of FIRE (finance, insurance and real estate) would just keep on burning.
Small business or that part of the private sector that creates the most jobs, got treated like yesterdays fish wrapped in a newspaper because the "Progressives" both hate and don't understand capitalism. All they understood was anybody who made money had to "divy it up" with that amorphous crowd called the "poor". So in the end the middle class, who play by the rules and pay the "freight" for those who can't or won't... became the "poor".
The knaves, varlets and bottom feeders who are elected today should for the most part live under bridges. Oh there are exceptions. A few brave souls, usually from another era when there was still a sense that being elected was an honor and a public trust, who still fight an almost impossible battle against the idealogues and the thieves. But they are tired and outnumbered and depressed from playing "Don Quixote" with no support from the voters.
And that is squarely where the problem now lies. Voters have to grow up. They have to do more than just get pissed off...they have to educate themselves as to how we arrived at this sorry state of affairs. They have to stop listening to the noxious and endless cascade of class warfare drivel that claims to explain and therefore justify everything elected officials do , and instead learn how the government they have let slip away... actually works.
Some one famous once said that "making laws was like making sausage...a truly nasty business". Today that statement is slanderous to sausage makers!
The one hope on the horizon for New York is that the "Tea Party" movement will reform one or even both of the major parties and in so doing present us with candidates who are dedicated, intelligent, have integrity and who don't see elective office as a lifetime opportunity to get rich off the peoples' dime. We have to stop electing people simply because they look like us, talk like us, invoke guilt in us or are able to con us with versions of reality that make "The Matrix" try to resemble upstate New York.
New Yorkers have a big political year ahead of us. We will be electing a Governor, an Attorney General, a Comptroller, the Assembly, the State Senate, Members of the U. S. House of Representatives and two U. S. Senators . In other words we can clean up this pile of steaming manure and actually reboot this state. It would be a cathartic moment for New York and for the nation. It is one minute to Midnight... decision time... and we have to decide as a community if we have the will and the fortitude to take our future into our own hands and cross the "Rubicon'.
Stay tuned for further posts on this topic.
ERLANDSSON
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