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thesacredreznor replied to your post “well i voted primaries, so really, there was no one i was like, hissss…”
ny politics is so wild to me. like your governor is sooo unpopular and the only person willing to primary him is an actress with no experience in public service? it’s so corrupt that not a single ambitious young politician is willing to take the risk to run against him? it baffles my poor california mind.
oh my lord.
listen, the political machinery here is very old, and very cantankerous. google “tammany hall” if you want to get an idea of just how old. we still have large bastions of Democratic Party traditions that date back to when they were the more conservative party.
Our governor is the son of a previous governor, and rules as if he were some sort of emperor. He believes himself to be a kind of divinity. He is arrogant and unlikable and abrasive. And he is so, so vindictive, and so entrenched, that it is impossible to work around him. No one dares oppose him. Except for people who are total outsiders.
On her own merits I would never have voted for his opponent. She’s condescending to minorities, and tone deaf about a staggering array of things, and I’m not even exaggerating when I say I don’t think she’s ever been even as far as Albany. She literally did not seem to understand the difference between being mayor of NYC and governor of the whole state; I don’t think she knows where Rochester is. (She’s probably seen a map, but I mean, she did not care to point out that she was aware that slightly over half of the population of the state lives, uh… not in the City.) (I mean for real, she put fixing the subway as her number one priority. I get that it’s bad, but you’ve got literally millions of voters who have never even seen that subway let alone benefited from it or in fact any kind of public transportation at all in any way, so don’t you think maybe… healthcare would’ve been a good thing to put on that list? That’s what Asshole Incumbent put on there, so. Hell, even infrastructure would’ve been fine; we’re riddled, as a state, with failing bridges and such. But no! The subway. Specifically the subway. Thanks!)
But it has been fantastic, this whole campaign, to hear her articulate some progressive talking point and then hear Asshole Incumbent echo it slightly weaker the next day, as if Of Course He’s Wanted That This Whole Time, when he has literally spent the last six years enabling the Republicans to hold a coalition majority in the legislative branch despite insufficient numbers, single-handedly staving off all kinds of things like a reproductive healthcare guarantee, a single-payer plan, cash bail reform, criminal justice reform– I mean, you name it, he’s killed it. Sigh.
No, he’ll do a fine job pissing Trump off, and we’re likely to get some good progressive reforms out of this eventually, he’s also just going to personally rip us off for several hundred million more dollars while he’s at it, and be an intractable asshole the entire time. I really don’t want him to run for President but when he does it will also be hilarious because he clearly is mistaking his stranglehold over the weird, arcane machine of New York Politics for some kind of real-world ability, which he notably lacks. I just hope he doesn’t hurt anyone else while he’s making an absolute fool of himself.
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thesacredreznor replied to your post “well i voted primaries, so really, there was no one i was like, hissss…”
ny politics is so wild to me. like your governor is sooo unpopular and the only person willing to primary him is an actress with no experience in public service? it’s so corrupt that not a single ambitious young politician is willing to take the risk to run against him? it baffles my poor california mind.
oh my lord.
listen, the political machinery here is very old, and very cantankerous. google “tammany hall” if you want to get an idea of just how old. we still have large bastions of Democratic Party traditions that date back to when they were the more conservative party.
Our governor is the son of a previous governor, and rules as if he were some sort of emperor. He believes himself to be a kind of divinity. He is arrogant and unlikable and abrasive. And he is so, so vindictive, and so entrenched, that it is impossible to work around him. No one dares oppose him. Except for people who are total outsiders.
On her own merits I would never have voted for his opponent. She’s condescending to minorities, and tone deaf about a staggering array of things, and I’m not even exaggerating when I say I don’t think she’s ever been even as far as Albany. She literally did not seem to understand the difference between being mayor of NYC and governor of the whole state; I don’t think she knows where Rochester is. (She’s probably seen a map, but I mean, she did not care to point out that she was aware that slightly over half of the population of the state lives, uh… not in the City.) (I mean for real, she put fixing the subway as her number one priority. I get that it’s bad, but you’ve got literally millions of voters who have never even seen that subway let alone benefited from it or in fact any kind of public transportation at all in any way, so don’t you think maybe… healthcare would’ve been a good thing to put on that list? That’s what Asshole Incumbent put on there, so. Hell, even infrastructure would’ve been fine; we’re riddled, as a state, with failing bridges and such. But no! The subway. Specifically the subway. Thanks!)
But it has been fantastic, this whole campaign, to hear her articulate some progressive talking point and then hear Asshole Incumbent echo it slightly weaker the next day, as if Of Course He’s Wanted That This Whole Time, when he has literally spent the last six years enabling the Republicans to hold a coalition majority in the legislative branch despite insufficient numbers, single-handedly staving off all kinds of things like a reproductive healthcare guarantee, a single-payer plan, cash bail reform, criminal justice reform– I mean, you name it, he’s killed it. Sigh.
No, he’ll do a fine job pissing Trump off, and we’re likely to get some good progressive reforms out of this eventually, he’s also just going to personally rip us off for several hundred million more dollars while he’s at it, and be an intractable asshole the entire time. I really don’t want him to run for President but when he does it will also be hilarious because he clearly is mistaking his stranglehold over the weird, arcane machine of New York Politics for some kind of real-world ability, which he notably lacks. I just hope he doesn’t hurt anyone else while he’s making an absolute fool of himself.
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