kristof should distinguish between liberals and Leftists. Fetterman is a liberal - Newsom is a Leftist along with the Squadettes, most blue city mayors excepting maybe Adams who goes back and forth.
What a stupid article by a stupid person.
Basically it’s …our system is best they’re just not doing it right….over there.
Total lack of self awareness and surroundings.
It's not because they're Democratic. They're Democratic because they have all those advantages - the elites and well-off tend to vote liberal.
Communism. We’re going to get it right this time. Blah, blah, blah.
Can we believe all the crap about “how progressive places are superior to conservative?????
The premise is faulty...hard to believe.
Maybe his standards are different from mine.
One thing can change all of this and it is so simple it is borderline ridiculous.
The change is forcing the networks and news organizations to do their job. They are the oversight of the government, given that privilege in the First Amendment. If they cannot report the truth, then they shouldn’t be protected by the First Amendment. A Fairness Doctrine if you will which is truly fair and a media which represents the people and not the government. If the media wants to be partisans, then they need to preface every article, TV show and other forums with their political views saying it is commentary.
Has this sniveling wanker at the NYT's been to NYC lately? If absolutely looks like failure.
I don't believe a word about BLUE STATES being HEALTHIER, WEALTHIER and WISER than RED STATES!
MOST STATES ARE RED with DEEP BLUE ROTTEN CITIES!
I only read a little farther than this paragraph since it wasn't followed immediately with, “oh, who am I kidding?”
If they can’t answer the question then they’re the complete incompetent idiots and if they can answer they’re complete incompetent idiots.
I’ve said it numerous times, liberalism is a disease that infects the mind and removes all rational thought.
This sentence jumped out at me, “ Education is generally better in blue states, with more kids graduating from high school and college.”
Almost every student in blue states graduates from high school and then from college if they elect to attend. That’s because they have policies dictating that student must be given a passing grade in their classes, whether or not they attend those classes or not. So that metric is certainly not indicative of higher education.
Shitcago, Detroit, Cleveland, New York City, Flint, St. Louis, Atlanta. Different Shit, Same Stink.
“Why put liberals in charge nationally when the places where they have greatest control are plagued by homelessness, crime and dysfunction?”
We’ve been asking that for decades. They’re figuring it out NOW?
unintended consequences ping
Pretty much all blue cities are hellholes for anyone who isn’t a government employee.
“Education is generally better in blue states, with more kids graduating from high school and college.”
No, not because education is better in blue states. But because blue cities and states have a tendency to NOT teach kids anything and graduate them anyways even though they can’t read or write.
Chicago Democrat sounds alarm as 55 schools report no proficiency in math or reading: ‘Very serious’
CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS HIT RECORD GRADUATION RATE AS MATH, READING SCORES DROP
I think I see the problem.
LMAO
nice little trick there liberals try to pull
looking at the state instead of the cities they control.
In a historic irony the real reason for numbers looking opposite on a state wide scale is blacks. Blacks which only make up 12% of the population are nearly all in Republican states! So when you compare liberals states to conservative ones, all those stats they mention make it appear like liberalism is better in many ways. But the truth is blacks in Republican states drag down the numbers they mentioned.
If you look at cities though, the real truth is starkly clear. All of those numbers are what you would expect, with Republican areas (non black ones) outperforming liberal areas in all metrics they mention.
Which means ignoring the fact that it is easier to unsheltered homeless in CA and Oregon than Vermont, New York and Maine, yet both much foster American poverty (which is usually not, relatively speaking) by easily obtained welfare.
Republicans are irrelevant in much of the Far West, so they can’t hold Democrats’ feet to the fire — leading Democrats in turn to wander unchecked farther to the left.
Meaning that the Left, left to themselves, the NE, which the author uses to argue that being liberal does not mean being like CA and Oregon, the NE would becomes like the latter.
I would guess that red states have absorbed most of the illegal immigration into the country. If so, that would also be dragging down the statistics.