{"id":14956,"date":"2021-06-21T11:11:30","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T15:11:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=14956"},"modified":"2021-06-21T11:15:58","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T15:15:58","slug":"the-absurdity-of-republican-governors-in-blue-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2021\/06\/21\/the-absurdity-of-republican-governors-in-blue-states\/","title":{"rendered":"The Absurdity of Republican Governors in Blue States"},"content":{"rendered":"

The linked article<\/a> describes how Andrew Cuomo\u2019s refusal to resign following his twin scandals of killing off all of New York State\u2019s old people with COVID and groping all the women who work for him has opened up an opportunity for a Republican to be elected as Governor next year.\u00a0 Oh, joy.<\/p>\n

I lived for decades in a state that typically goes through a cycle of one or two terms of a Democrat governor followed by four or five terms of Republican governors.\u00a0 How it works is that a Democrat governor does so much fiscal and public safety harm during just a few years in office that even the ideologues in the blue state population realize that their livelihoods and lives are at risk.\u00a0 So, they allow a Republican to come in and right the ship.<\/p>\n

But the Republican governor is so grateful to be allowed to fix their mess that he bends over backward to be indistinguishable from a Democrat on social issues.\u00a0 The state I refer to is Massachusetts and they brought in William Weld and his two subordinates and then Mitt Romney to clean up the Mike Dukakis mess.\u00a0 Then after they let the Barack Obama Mini-Me (Deval Patrick) crash the Massachusetts Miracle for eight years they had to bring in Charlie Baker to stop the hemorrhaging and allow the state to revive.<\/p>\n

Why exactly Blue State Republicans are willing to fulfill this role for their progressive constituencies is a mystery to me.\u00a0 I suppose they are attached to their homes and always hope that a permanent equilibrium is possible.\u00a0 But this is a fool\u2019s hope.\u00a0 Just looking at Massachusetts, or even more vivid, New York City\u2019s mayoral history will demonstrate that the fiscal and public safety sanity that a Republican leader provides will eventually convince the progressive population that they have nothing to fear by installing a lunatic like Deval Patrick or Bill de Blasio.\u00a0 And once the inevitable happens they still only grudgingly accept the prescription that a Republican reformer brings to them and chafe at its requirements to hold people accountable regardless of favored racial and sexual status.<\/p>\n

So, you get this predictable oscillation, up and down, for crime and poverty and chaos.\u00a0 The question remains why the Republicans bother.\u00a0 It will never get better and they will never get credit for keeping their constituencies from destroying themselves.\u00a0 Places like California, New York and New England should be allowed to destroy themselves without interference from the people they so obviously despise.\u00a0 This is the accelerationist argument and over time I\u2019ve come to adopt it wholeheartedly.\u00a0 It will only be after one of these places crashes completely that the people who are left might learn enough to know that the things they believe in are irrational and unsustainable in the real world.<\/p>\n

So, I wholeheartedly agree with ridiculing the people who run these states and highlighting for everyone to see how awful the outcomes of their policy choices are.\u00a0 But I object to the Right, such as it still exists in these places, pulling their chestnuts out of the fire.\u00a0 Things need to get so bad that even the elites that formulate these nonsensical polices are made to suffer the consequences.\u00a0 Probably, from my point of view, the perfect outcome would be for the inhabitants to revert to cannibalism and eat Bill Gates and Nancy Pelosi off of a spit.\u00a0 In that way they could see the racial justice they strive for brought to fruition and also do their part for sustainability.\u00a0 After all, in California there is an almost inexhaustible supply of white progressives and I can think of no higher use to put them to than as entrees on a community barbecue menu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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