I was slow in following this. I cringe at cat fights, hate to watch.
9/11 was a telling moment in that lefty city, when it seemed to show a whole different side.
I think God let it happen in part to show America what it was capable of, under the patina of leftiness. Which I think was acquired due to the drip, drip, drip of filthy rich lefties. But people are not one dimensional beings.
Neither candidate dug into the dimensions like I did, and it was just ugly with each feeling hurt.
Well maybe rose colored glasses are now cemented to my eyeballs... or maybe it’s just 3D glasses. God didn’t build people in one dimension. That’s absurd! But even more importantly... they aren’t robots, slaves only to circumstance however affected by circumstance. Certain moments give us an X ray into the American psyche. Wars tend to do that.
The NYC that I grew up in, was a friendly, face paced place. People talked to one another, even to strangers in stores or museums, etc.! They were polite, men tipped their hats to ladies, walked on the outside, near the curb, and children were pretty respectful of their elders. Yes, yes, I know none of that sounds at all "real", now, but it REALLY was like that.
What happened to it ( and I'm NOT denying that there was a history of political corruption, in the least, because there was and that isn't the ONLY place in this nation, that it's true of ! ) more recently, was a HUGE influx of crazies and liberals from all over the USA ! Real New Yorkers became fewer and fewer.
And what Ted blamed on the entire state of N.Y., could as easily been pinned on Austin Texas, Boston, Mass. and any number of other places.