It would take hours to slog through all the nonsense recently posted by senor boogie woogie and refute it — all of it is demonstrably false — and who has time for that? What would even be the point?
Still, I wanted to address this:
New York City was safe and prosperous under Rudolf Guiliani, now the city is again, crime ridden, empty storefronts and those who can, flee, and guess to where, Republican ran states.
I know that this is stone-cold bullshit, because I live in New York City and have done so for nearly three decades.
In all that time, I have never once been the victim of a crime. Never once. Any crime. And I am quite active and have been all over the city, all five boroughs. I’m a daily rider of the so-called dangerous subways, and have been for nearly thirty years. And I’ve never had a problem on them. Never.
New York City is the safest big city in the United States, according to the FBI, as of this year.
Yes, as the article notes, crime in the city has been rising recently, but it’s still far below historical levels. The reason for the rise is no doubt related to social and economic dislocations caused by the Covid pandemic — which, contrary to our curmudgeonly interlocutor’s claim, was and is
far more serious than the common cold. But I’m not addressing that topic now.
Crime on the rise? Yes, and not just in NYC. When did the rise start? Under Donald Trump, in 2020.
See here.
Note that the latter linked article also ranks the safest cities in the U.S. with populations over 500,000. New York City ranks third.
Yes, there are certain areas of the city, mostly economically disadvantaged, that have higher crime rates than the better-off parts of the city. What else is new? It’s really easy for small towns without the inevitable socioeconomic problems found in large population clusters to have low crime rates, but one wonders how much lower the rates are
per capita. In any case, we’re all familiar with the pathologies that plague rural, small-town, Donald Trump America: Lack of jobs, substandard education, poor health care, opioid addictions, declining populations as the young flee these hell holes, and so on. It’s a fact that most federal tax dollars flow back not to the blue states but to the red states.
People are fleeing NYC for Republican-run cities and states?
Wrong again.
Lots of people DO leave the city (though more move in or are replaced by births) but that’s mostly because of the high cost of living.
Vacant store fronts in NYC? Bullshit. I live here. I do remember plenty of vacant storefronts during the Covid shutdown. They aren’t vacant anymore. The city is safe and teeming, thriving, pulsating with energy, and it’s polyglot: filled with immigrants of every stripe who contribute immeasurably to the city’s prosperity.
Now, again, that isn’t true for all parts of the city. But it is true for most of it.
When you get your information from The Big Book of Right-Wing Nut-Job Apologetics, you tend to have, shall we say, a distorted view of reality.