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A lot of people are making this about how unfair New York is, as if the issue is New York (or other liberal cities). Its not. The issue is our government has be
by theossuary 4y ago
A lot of people are making this about how unfair New York is, as if the issue is New York (or other liberal cities). Its not. The issue is our government has been hollowed out by big business interests and their political supporters; it's gotten to the point where there's no recourse for individuals. We need to write laws that have actual protections for individuals, and actual penalties. If a law guarantees a right, but has no recourse if that right is taken, well then the law doesn't actually guarantee anything at all.
Chomsky has an interesting take that seems relevant too:
> And the other leading propaganda theme — and I don’t mean by that, you know, like, just what you hear in the newspapers- read in the newspapers and so on, like the entertainment industry and television and everything else — is anti-politics. Meaning, setting up a picture — it’s called anti-politics — the picture — but a very specific kind of anti-politics — you have to establish the image, you know, get into people’s heads, that the Government is the enemy- the Federal Government. State Governments are okay, because they can be sort of controlled by business anyway, so it doesn’t matter. But the Federal Government is sometimes a little too big to be pushed around, so it’s the enemy. And it cannot be, nobody can dream of the possibility, that the Government is of, by, and for the people. That’s impossible. It’s an enemy to be hated and feared.
https://chomsky.info/19960413/ https://chomsky.info/19960413/
- Hydraulix989 4y agoI remember in a follow-up video after Louis moved to Texas mentioning how surprised he was when he found out he didn't need a license to run a repair business in their state.
- _8j50 4y agoYeah, texas likes businesses just fine, consumers not so much.
- subradios 4y agoYou can say it's not about liberal cities or progressivism but about "big business" hollowing out the city, but when all of the cities in question are 60 to 80% democrats favored and only ever vote Democrat, as well as the large multinationals that headquarter there making explicit devotionals to progressive causes ("ESG" investing) - you do not escape entirely the idea that these may be related.
- Spooky23 4y agoYou have no idea about NY politics. As a state it’s more “conservative” than a talking head on TV would have you believe. The people who are the cogs of the political machine are catholic, Hispanic and black. Consider when the Feds were monitoring elections, it wasn’t just Mississippi… parts of NYC were included. NYC has loud progressive movements, but it’s a city fueled by cash power.
- _8j50 4y agoCities always vote democrats because american republicans depend on being hostile to those who are different from you and you have to be neighbors with people different from you in cities. Do you know a very large conservative city?
- subradios 4y agoThere are many, all of Asia. Large parts of Europe are also much more conservative than this reductionist view of politics. Additionally the view of American conservatism that requires implicit racism ignores that there are a whole host of Republican voting Hispanic folks, Vietnamese people, etc.
- bettyx1138 4y ago
- johnnymorgan 4y ago..that your generation built and created...such a boomer answer and can't even take responsibility for it even now.
- Tostino 4y agoHow does one "take responsibility for their generation"?
- subradios 4y agoThe issue is that the antifa/anonymous/occupy ethos is the corporate ethos, and that should be concerning, if big business really is the problem.