NYC Mayor Adams $500 million Anti-Crime Plan, Blueprint for Public Safety

[AlmostHeaven]

meanwhile in upstate NY it's pleasant and Conservative...

Unfortunately, these beautiful areas get completely outvoted by New York City, and 5% of the state geography enforces its dictates on the other 95%.

All upstate New Yorkers live under the authoritarian regime of New York City economic, social, and gun laws.

[marcusrn]

Brings to mind the epigram of Tacitus, "Ubi solitudinem faciunt pacem appellant", "they create a desert and call it peace"! In modern speak it would be "they piss on my leg and tell me it's raining" but this urine fest will cost half Billion $!!!

[Reno-Kid]

Unfortunately, these beautiful areas get completely outvoted by New York City, and 5% of the state geography enforces its dictates on the other 95%.

All upstate New Yorkers live under the authoritarian regime of New York City economic, social, and gun laws.

It's rather lite to say its about being out voted, it's about deep hatreds in urban areas of a successful rural society and they are at war.

[Reno-Kid]

The war on drugs will never work because Americans want drugs. The United States has been spending tens of billions of dollars per year on controlled substances enforcement, more than it does on every gun control law combined, and the problem has only grown larger.

The country could suspend the Constitution and execute 100,000 drug dealers without trial, and the industry would spring back up by 2030. Cracking down on narcotics does nothing to address the underlying social ills driving drug abuse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9ZovD4HAgM

I would disagree. But we need more military assets at the border, sea, and air. It works, we have been intercepting drugs in bulk as its being smuggled.

[AlmostHeaven]

It's rather lite to say its about being out voted, it's about deep hatreds in urban areas of a successful rural society and they are at war.

I know the situation well. The urban elites and cultural Marxists in Northern Virginia work tirelessly to impose their authoritarian dictates and oppressive collectivist values on the rest of Virginia. Progressive activists stop at nothing to ensure the ideas concoted by ivory tower academics turn the entire Commonwealth into an equal-outcome, inclusive, diverse, LGBTQ+ friendly, fossil fuel-free, and car-free nightmare.

The only difference is Northern Virginia does not outnumber the rest of the state combined, the way New York City dominates New York State. If I could snap my fingers and return state legislatures to properly representing rural areas, I would do so without hesitation for the all of us.

[TrappedinCalifornia]

It's rather lite to say its about being out voted, it's about deep hatreds in urban areas of a successful rural society and they are at war.

To one degree or another, such has always been the case. However, over the last 30 years or so, the divide has been heightened by the rise in political power by Democrats in the urban areas and Republicans in the rural regions... or so the theory goes. Personally, I think it is likely due to parochial perspectives and demographic changes...

...Urban areas are at the leading edge of racial and ethnic change, with nonwhites now a clear majority of the population in urban counties while solid majorities in suburban and rural areas are white. Urban and suburban counties are gaining population due to an influx of immigrants in both types of counties, as well as domestic migration into suburban areas. In contrast, rural counties have made only minimal gains since 2000 as the number of people leaving for urban or suburban areas has outpaced the number moving in. And while the population is graying in all three types of communities, this is happening more rapidly in the suburbs than in urban and rural counties.

At the same time, urban and rural communities are becoming increasingly different from each other politically. Adults in urban counties, long aligned with the Democratic Party, have moved even more to the left in recent years, and today twice as many urban voters identify as Democrats or lean Democratic as affiliate with the Republican Party. For their part, rural adults have moved more firmly into the Republican camp. More than half (54%) of rural voters now identify with or lean to the GOP, while 38% are Democrats or lean Democratic...

It's something we're seeing play out as Boomers age, retire, and seek less 'urban' environments. They bring a 'different' perspective to those regions, which ends up changing the culture(s) in situ. It's why we've seen places like Oregon and Idaho 'resist' California migrants as they perceive the bulk of them to be from major urban areas. Similarly, we're seeing it play out in Northern California where simply the 'public version' which caught the media's attention was... Shasta Supervisors Declare County a 2nd Amendment Fortress In 'War On Guns.'

In short, it's not so much about 'urban elites, Marxists, ivory tower academics, etc.' as it is about, simply, a differing perspective and culture which, throughout History, has been a source of tension; particularly given that the difference in numbers (including voters) tends to skew the political power toward the urban denizens, while the resource powers of the rural areas create a legitimate sense that the rural dwellers should have more of a voice given that the 'urbanites' rely on those very resources to sustain them.