Posted on 12/21/2014 1:54:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Upstate NY is conservative. NYC is our leftist hell hole.
I know many conservatives here in NYC. But we are greatly outnumbered by doctrinaire progressives.
At a social event last week, I met a prominent progressive writer/columnist. I didn’t come out and identify my political orientation. She actually ended up agreeing with me that since most politicians are power-mad psychopaths, we should entrust them with less power, not more. In her eyes I could see the cognitive dissonance tearing her apart.
NY progressives, even the so-called intellectuals, have no idea why they believe what they do. The talk-show conservatives they typically encounter have little notion of how to argue and persuade. The progressive stance is often simply a cultural posture, a marker of upper-middle status in a very class-conscious city.
The state as a whole is left and it impacts me. If you are conservative you need to do something to get rid of the communists who claim to represent you. I could suggest methods, but do not want to be arrested.
And why, exactly, have the communist/socialist/marxist politicians that populate NYC and most other urban areas have nor been observed hanging from lamp posts? Communists deserve resistance from freedom lovers!
quitters leave.
didn’t mean for the previous to sound snotty. hopefully you kapiche.
I know. It is frustrating to me, that is all.
On one hand the leftist turd de blasio deserves it. On the other hand, bet your behind the public unions are in the pocket of the leftists. It’s an internal dispute, and it sure would be nice to see a union pull support.
He has to resign immediately! What the hell is he waiting for!
Commie bastard!
“NY’ers still have the ability to vote with their feet. Leave it a shell inhabited by the 0ccupy movement.”
That is what happened in NYC with the last radical (David Dinkins); it was a real boon for NJ in terms of businesses and wealth moving across the Hudson River to us. I expect more of the same now.
While much of rural upstate NY is conservative, it is so outvoted by the urban cesspools that they have little representation.
massive ditto.
Funny...do you share this profane sentiment with FReepers who live in NYC, NJ, Illinois, Maryland, or any of the other so called “liberal” states or do you just reserve your disdain for Californians?
Nah, those other states don’t have pretty sunsets.
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