“NYC is a perfect example of what happens when millions with no stake in anything, who contribute nothing, are given the right to vote. ”
“The America of my time line is a laboratory example of what can happen to democracies, what has eventually happened to all perfect democracies throughout all histories. A perfect democracy, a “warm body” democracy in which every adult may vote and all votes count equally, has no internal feedback for self-correction…. Once a state extends the franchise to every warm body, be he producer or parasite, that day marks the beginning of the end of the state. For when the plebs discover that they can vote themselves bread and circuses without limit and that the productive members of the body politic cannot stop them, they will do so, until the state bleeds to death, or in its weakened condition the state succumbs to an invader — the barbarians enter Rome.”
To Sail Beyond the Sunset Robert A.Heinlein
Can’t say we weren’t warned.
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That says it perfectly; put another way: “If you rob Peter to pay Paul, you will always have the support of Paul”.
NJ is looking at the same fate, as the hosts flee the high costs of their unproductives and the government worker caste. Areas projected to grow a dozen years ago are losing population instead, and the state continues to replace the fleeing Americans and their employers with imported Third Worlders and public assistance.