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Funny, De Blasio was sold as a good idealist when he first ran. And he was. Unfortunately. we discovered that the idealism did not translate to everyday compete
by afavour 6y ago
Funny, De Blasio was sold as a good idealist when he first ran. And he was. Unfortunately. we discovered that the idealism did not translate to everyday competence.
I see some dangers of that in Yang's proposals, too. He wants the city to take ownership of the subway. Great. I'd like that too. But Cuomo has absolutely no intention of letting that happen. Absent any detail of how he'll change that, what am I even voting for?
- babesh 6y agoIf he wins, I expect the tech support to draw in tech talent into government. That will be a good thing.
- afavour 6y agoI think that would be good for tech-specific things. But improving schools or public housing isn't much of a tech problem.
- mc32 6y agoTech can’t fix everything. It can’t fix graft and corruption. You need people like Morgenthau and Giuliani but even more fearless and aggressive to rip out corruption by just about everyone in government. Start with a clean slate. But that cannot happen. Think “deep interests”.
- SV_BubbleTime 6y agoI would think tech could clear up some corruption. Open and transparent accounting would be a good start.
- alecb 6y agoThere's nothing secret about New York's "deep interests" - real estate development is the city's king maker.
- mc32 6y agoI mean the billion-dollar per mile subways, the graft, the garbage collection, holding up mixed concrete deliveries (ruining it), etc., etc. it does not end.
- pengaru 6y agoA "Move fast and break things" approach isn't really desirable in government.
- flaque 6y agoWhy? Purely curious, what’s wrong with trying lots of things quickly and reverting quickly if it breaks something?
- mandelbrotwurst 6y agoBecause the “something” is often people’s livelihoods and reverting policy doesn’t always undo the damage it causes.
- denkmoon 6y agoWith software, nothing. With human systems? The impact of your change is not always readily apparent, easily traceable, or based in logic. Particularly, because there is always going to be lag between change and outcome as the humans adapt their behaviour over human time scales, not computer time scales.
- nradov 6y agoImplementing any political changes requires support from other stakeholders. After a politician breaks things a few times that support evaporates, regardless of successes in other areas.
- leesec 6y agoInstead we get "move slow and keep things broken".
- rayiner 6y agoWhat the ideals are matters! https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/nyregion/a-mayoral-hopeful-now-de-blasio-was-once-a-young-leftist.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/23/nyregion/a-mayoral-hopefu... > Bill de Blasio, then 26, went to Nicaragua to help distribute food and medicine in the middle of a war between left and right. But he returned with something else entirely: a vision of the possibilities of an unfettered leftist government. Yang has had a much more down-to-earth career in philanthropy and business.
- mc32 6y agoYeah, I don't see Yang as a leftist at all. He may be liberal, but not a leftist (who are often too dogmatic).
- Ericson2314 6y agoI have no idea where the hell Bill de Blasio's imagination went, but it's striking. They guy acts like the cops have his family at gunpoint or something.
- rayiner 6y agoAre you suggesting Bill de Blasio should have done, more of whatever the heck he's trying to do?
- Ericson2314 6y agoAbsolutely! His first campaign sounded nice, and then extremely little of note has happened. I don't like a lot of what Bloomberg did, but there was certainly more of it. Bill de Blasio is a genuinely confusing when he isn't just being pathetic.
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