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Bloomberg was the inflection point on a giant sine wave
We started as a clean post-war booming city, hippies got bored and rebelled against their parents and the establishment and everybody got disillusioned because of Vietnam, so standards got lax and the criminals took over.
20 years later we just couldn't take it anymore and Rudy cleaned house and people's lives got much, MUCH better. Bloomberg continued the trend and was probably the very best manager of a large city the world has ever seen. He was so effective that people got bored and they were literally nostalgic for the "grit" and "authenticity" of old NYC. People were jaded, black people noticed everybody getting rich except them, the bored trust fund babies developed a white savior complex
In comes De Blasio and destroys everything. State Republicans are all voted out, next thing you know Cuomo says criminals can't be held for bail anymore and they empty out Rikers. Then people get wound up locked in their home afraid of a novel virus, George Floyd is stomped to death by a bad cop, and all hell breaks loose. Everybody turns on the police, NYPD suffers mass resignations and the cops left are the least competent and any of the good ones left just stop enforcing anything they don't have to. Why put their neck on the lines for people who hate them?
Well here we are again, at the bottom of the sine wave. Crime is out of control, people are not safe, things are falling apart and the crazies are telling your kids they can have sex change operations if puberty is too inconvenient.
What did people think was going to happen at this point? Of course, all the incompetent politicians are going to get voted out and replaced.
Cycle continues
I second all of this, and couldn't agree more, and I couldn't have of said it better.
I agree with everything you have just stated in this post!!!!!
We started as a clean post-war booming city, hippies got bored and rebelled against their parents and the establishment and everybody got disillusioned because of Vietnam, so standards got lax and the criminals took over.
I truly think that is the dumbest thing I have ever read...and I have read some DOOZIES.
I actually agree. People got bored with normalcy and functionality. Then "bam-bam-bam" and it's destroyed. Then Giuliani and Bloomberg and then, like a toddler wrecking his block construction, "bam-bam-bam" and it's destroyed again.
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Originally Posted by BlakeJones
In comes De Blasio and destroys everything. State Republicans are all voted out, next thing you know Cuomo says criminals can't be held for bail anymore and they empty out Rikers. Then people get wound up locked in their home afraid of a novel virus, George Floyd is stomped to death by a bad cop, and all hell breaks loose. Everybody turns on the police, NYPD suffers mass resignations and the cops left are the least competent and any of the good ones left just stop enforcing anything they don't have to. Why put their neck on the lines for people who hate them?
The excuse for the empty-out of Rikers was Covid. There were more worthy people to save.
Your favorite color is orange and mine is green. I hate green and you hate orange.
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