I find this note particularly astute: “His solution is clear, and is as correct now as it was then: empower one or a few people to act vigorously, and draw clear lines of accountability to evaluate their actions.”
New York’s long list of elected offices (and commissions featuring commissioners appointed often by several different elected officials) creates many veto points and makes it difficult for the public to understand who is responsible for fixing problems they encounter.
UDATE; 1/19/25- The memory and fear of the harms and lies is seared into the minds of 21st century Americans . As a result, they do not trust the government to do things without harming them—and this includes the new Administration that takes power tomorrow at Noon, January 20, 2025. All good will is fickle, revolutions happen during rising expectations. Hopelessness isn’t the danger, Hope is the danger.
Sorry. This is the present situation in America and New York. The government are no longer are content with stealing or failing, they mean harm, we are certain from what they DO they’re harmful and it matches their rhetoric. Corruption can be reformed, fatal harms must be answered another way. As the system is the law that way is barred.
Barring miraculous successes, in a year or so the new administration will be as successful as Louis XVI’s last ministers and their fate the same.
Everything you wrote is true, so is what I wrote, if not about the future then certainly today.
I find this note particularly astute: “His solution is clear, and is as correct now as it was then: empower one or a few people to act vigorously, and draw clear lines of accountability to evaluate their actions.”
New York’s long list of elected offices (and commissions featuring commissioners appointed often by several different elected officials) creates many veto points and makes it difficult for the public to understand who is responsible for fixing problems they encounter.
UDATE; 1/19/25- The memory and fear of the harms and lies is seared into the minds of 21st century Americans . As a result, they do not trust the government to do things without harming them—and this includes the new Administration that takes power tomorrow at Noon, January 20, 2025. All good will is fickle, revolutions happen during rising expectations. Hopelessness isn’t the danger, Hope is the danger.
Sorry. This is the present situation in America and New York. The government are no longer are content with stealing or failing, they mean harm, we are certain from what they DO they’re harmful and it matches their rhetoric. Corruption can be reformed, fatal harms must be answered another way. As the system is the law that way is barred.
Barring miraculous successes, in a year or so the new administration will be as successful as Louis XVI’s last ministers and their fate the same.
Everything you wrote is true, so is what I wrote, if not about the future then certainly today.