Posted on 01/08/2025 3:10:19 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
And now here's my take:
Countries 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, however, seemed to be particularly focused on the party that has traditionally been identified with big government. The left.
Almost everywhere you look, the left is in ruins. Of the 27 countries of the European Union, only a handful have left of center parties leading government coalitions. The primary left of center party in the European parliament now has just 136 seats in a 720-seat chamber. Even in countries that have been able to stem the rise of right-wing populism like Poland, it is the center right that is thriving, not the left.
And in the U.S., of course, the breadth of Donald Trump's victory. Nearly 90 percent of counties in America moved right, suggests that it is very much part of this trend.
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.
New York, where I live, and Florida, where I visit often, provide an interesting contrast. They have similar sized populations. New York with about 20 million people. Florida with about 23 million. But New York state's budget is more than double that of Florida's, $239 billion, versus roughly $116 billion.
…What do New Yorkers get for these vast sums of money generated by the highest tax rates in the country?
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Arrogance of elitists drunk on power they believed belonged to them by rights. Elitists all eventually become wrapped in a myopic intellectual bubble.
The Left is losing so hard, he’s back to being Fred Zachary.
Yes, and it's way past time to flush it into the septic tank of history where it belongs.
The left is not gone.
Most people have an average IQ
of 100.
But as long as people are this challenged
we will have to endure the stupidity
And accept we will have the lefts evil
with us always.
:What do New Yorkers get for these vast sums of money generated by the highest tax rates in the country?”
Votes.
Pssstt.....They were in trouble the day they started their nonsensical crusade of DEI, Open Borders, and Runaway Spending (inflation) which was really just money laundering thru NGO’s, and non existent federal contracts.
Don’t fall for it.
And they’re going for scorched earth.
“What do New Yorkers get for these vast sums of money generated by the highest tax rates in the country?”
The purple shaft...and they love it because they keep electing the same filth. Watch Hochul cruise right back in.
The Left has always governed with ideological blinders on. Their policies are based on the way things are in their minds, not on the way things really are within the human condition. It all may sound lovely in an academic conclave, but falls apart when meeting reality. This, and their elitism, is what caught up with them.
Really? Then why are the immigrants still flooding in and Hate speech laws as oppressive as ever?
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