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Surprised his piece hasn't been quoted yet:
washingtonpost.com - New york florida liberal failureCountries with more than half of the world’s population went to the polls last year. And the basic message they sent to their governments was one of dissatisfaction and anger with the status quo. Their frustration seemed to be particularly focused on the side that has traditionally been identified with big government, the left.
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The crisis of democratic government then, is actually a crisis of progressive government. People seem to feel that they have been taxed, regulated, bossed around and intimidated by left-of-center politicians for decades — but the results are bad and have been getting worse.Indeed. And this is the rub for the democrats:
New York with about 20 million people, Florida with 23 million. But New York state’s budget is more than double that of Florida ($239 billion vs. roughly $116 billion). New York City, which is a little more than three times the size of Miami-Dade County, has a budget of more than $100 billion, which is nearly 10 times that of Miami-Dade. New York City’s spending grew from 2012 to 2019 by 40 percent, four times the rate of inflation. Does any New Yorker feel that they got 40 percent better services during that time?This question can be repeated in just about every blue state and municipality with the answer coming back a resounding NO every. Single. Time.
At some point, you have to turn your rhetoric into actual governance. The left's usual
modus operandi is to target an institution for takeover, vivisect its living husk, then walk around wearing it as a skin suit. The voters are rejecting this sort of governing model, hopefully wholesale.
