Agree on Manhattanite lens (only). Bloomberg was the mayor for the rich and did a good job, but he won’t be good for the country imo
^are you not in middle/upper class?
Irrelevant for my statement
Fair gripe with him. That can really be said for anyone though. Cruz views the nation through his texas/midwest lens. The man openly panned “nyc values” so you can see how much he cares about the 8 million people of america that live there. Finding a politician free from biases of their life experience is impossible unfortunately. Maybe one day we will vote for supercomputers that are significantly smarter than us to run our society.
Fact: Midland, TX, is the former hometown of not one, but TWO United States Presidents.
Can NYC say that? (I honestly don’t know the answer to that. I would assume that at least two presidents have lived in NYC for at least part of their life.)
you will benefit why do you care about the rest of the country, they dont care about you
Obama was in NYC when he was a student at Columbia.
Dwight Eisenhower was in NYC when he was President of Columbia
Teddy Roosevelt was Police Commissioner of New York City.
Franklin Roosevelt lived on East 65th street in Manhattan.
Those are the ones that I could uncover in the first two minutes of web browsing.
Not everyone is one dimensional.
Watched the Roosevelts on Netflix, the Ken Burns series, and it was amazing. Such an interesting family history.
disagree some folks like to be internet heros but when they are voting its complete 180%
Disagreeing that “not everyone is one dimensional” means “yes, everyone is one dimensional.”
If you believe that, then you need to say “all folks who are internet hero but then vote complete 180%” (which doesn’t even make sense anyway).
It’s not about having no bias. It’s about being in tune with the broader country. I’ve traveled and lived in a number of places around the US, but Manhattan (while a great place) never ceases to surprise me each time I’m there with just how blind they are to reality outside NYC. It’s much more damaging IMO to have a rich elitist running a country saying, “let them eat cake” than to have someone who identifies with 90% of the country with a more “average” lens in the office. Manhattanites live in this weird state of almost militant progressive close mindedness where they simultaneously congratulate each other on their open mindedness while repeating the party lines from the most recent New Yorker. Anyhow, I have a lot of close friends that live there that I’ve grown up with since I was about 10 years old but even they agree Manhattan has a way of sucking you into bizzaro land and isolating you from the world outside. As a result, I don’t think many of the views and policies that work in that microcosm will translate well to the US of A.
ok great thanks for your contribution, i will leave now
Thank god.