excalibur
Diamond Member
- Mar 19, 2015
- 28,372
- 57,349
- 2,290
Still getting money from mommy and daddy too.
Seattle is done.
Everybody is rightly worried about what damage Zohran Mamdani will do to New York City. It is, after all, the financial capital of the world.
However, the truth is that many of the things he has promised to do will be blocked in Albany due to some complexities in the relationship between the city, the state, and multi-governmental organizations. Mamdani will be able to do a lot of damage, of course, but likely more along the lines of being a worse Bill de Blasio than a Fidel Castro.
New York City has so much wealth that it will take a long time and a lot of effort to do irreversible damage, I suspect. Mamdani will be flashy and do damage, but not kill the city. I think. I hope.
Seattle, though, may not be so lucky. New York City is a colossus, so it can sustain quite a bit of injury. Seattle may be wealthy by most standards, but its success has shallower roots and its institutions are likely less resilient.
The election of Katie Wilson, who barely ousted the incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell, takes the city out of the frying pan and directly into the fire. Harrell has been struggling to bring the city back from the disastrous COVID/CHAZ/CHOP years, which devastated the city. Microsoft, based just outside Seattle, no longer holds its big Build conference there because the city has become intolerable at times for visitors because of homelessness and drug use.
Harrell was trying to address those issues by rebuilding basic institutions like the police.
She even shares a similar background to Mamdani. Her parents are prominent academics in New York who regularly send her money because she is basically unemployable and can't afford to live in Seattle. She went to Oxford, but dropped out a few weeks before graduation, and she blames her lack of a college degree for her inability to get high-paying jobs.
...
hotair.com
Seattle is done.
Everybody is rightly worried about what damage Zohran Mamdani will do to New York City. It is, after all, the financial capital of the world.
However, the truth is that many of the things he has promised to do will be blocked in Albany due to some complexities in the relationship between the city, the state, and multi-governmental organizations. Mamdani will be able to do a lot of damage, of course, but likely more along the lines of being a worse Bill de Blasio than a Fidel Castro.
New York City has so much wealth that it will take a long time and a lot of effort to do irreversible damage, I suspect. Mamdani will be flashy and do damage, but not kill the city. I think. I hope.
Seattle, though, may not be so lucky. New York City is a colossus, so it can sustain quite a bit of injury. Seattle may be wealthy by most standards, but its success has shallower roots and its institutions are likely less resilient.
The election of Katie Wilson, who barely ousted the incumbent Mayor Bruce Harrell, takes the city out of the frying pan and directly into the fire. Harrell has been struggling to bring the city back from the disastrous COVID/CHAZ/CHOP years, which devastated the city. Microsoft, based just outside Seattle, no longer holds its big Build conference there because the city has become intolerable at times for visitors because of homelessness and drug use.
Harrell was trying to address those issues by rebuilding basic institutions like the police.
She even shares a similar background to Mamdani. Her parents are prominent academics in New York who regularly send her money because she is basically unemployable and can't afford to live in Seattle. She went to Oxford, but dropped out a few weeks before graduation, and she blames her lack of a college degree for her inability to get high-paying jobs.
...
Seattle's New Socialist Mayor Will Be Worse Than Mamdani
Seattle's new socialist mayor raises concerns about the city's future and economic stability.
hotair.com
