Two New Yorks
Below is the updated map that I originally highlighted here. We are approaching the point where the map will be complete, when no more resolutions will be acted upon, the county legislatures will have spoken or not. Essex, Broome, and Sullivan are sure to go green this week or next, Albany Co. is a toss up. In the end there will be 52 or 53 of New York state's 62 counties voting their opposition to Cuomo's SAFE Act and 9 or 10 not expressing opposition.
Forget about the gun debate for now, this map is a classic example of the concept of the tyranny of the majority. On a given issue, any governor of NYS need only - and clearly Cuomo only did - please the roughly 12 million residents of the 8 counties that constitute the state's portion of NYC metro area. The remaining 8 million in the other 54 counties are effectively a political nullity. On certain issues, the lines don't cut this way, but on many they do. Clearly guns are one such issue, but "fracking" is another and education policy is another. A moderate governing approach that understands the delicate balance may keep this entity we know as New York state viable, but ram-rodding too much progressive, leftist policy preferences onto the rest of the state is not healthy, and at some point dangerous.
UPDATE: Map has been updated as Essex has gone green. Broome and Sullivan will be green by Friday and we are largely done, at which point we can conclude that the notion, peddled relentlessly by the MSM, that Cuomo's anti-gun SAFE Act is broadly popular is, in fact, a steaming pile.
Forget about the gun debate for now, this map is a classic example of the concept of the tyranny of the majority. On a given issue, any governor of NYS need only - and clearly Cuomo only did - please the roughly 12 million residents of the 8 counties that constitute the state's portion of NYC metro area. The remaining 8 million in the other 54 counties are effectively a political nullity. On certain issues, the lines don't cut this way, but on many they do. Clearly guns are one such issue, but "fracking" is another and education policy is another. A moderate governing approach that understands the delicate balance may keep this entity we know as New York state viable, but ram-rodding too much progressive, leftist policy preferences onto the rest of the state is not healthy, and at some point dangerous.
UPDATE: Map has been updated as Essex has gone green. Broome and Sullivan will be green by Friday and we are largely done, at which point we can conclude that the notion, peddled relentlessly by the MSM, that Cuomo's anti-gun SAFE Act is broadly popular is, in fact, a steaming pile.
posted by Donny Baseball at 1:39 PM
3 Comments:
so, how long can this go on? Your previous point, that people do nothing until the bombs fall is absolutely correct. I won't bore you with the many examples. But I read Drudge every morning to see if North Korea has sent a missile over to NAmerica. The new guy is young.
And what happens when the govt cheques bounce? Oh well.
We always seem to pull ourselves back from the brink here in the US. I think that will happen in the US, but I really can't be sure. These modern progressives are truly vicious and bloody-minded. I have a little confidence seeing all the noises made toward civil disobedience in the service of preserving liberty. They can't put every last gun owner in jail and they can't make every last Catholic hospital perform abortions or hand out birth control pills and they can't make every state cooperate with Obamacare. The resistance to all this is heartening and gives me hope in what I consider to be dark times.
In terms of praticalities, I believe the "Bond Market Vigilantes" will show up sometime in the next two years, interest rates will skyrocket and that's when we will finally move on the deficit/debt.
We've had a few more counties change color, and Tompkins is voting today. See the latest map at: http://www.nysaferesolutions.com
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