FYI, New York is arguably the most far left state in the nation next to California and NYC is arguably one if its most far left cities.
Therefore: I was able to see left policies in action. Democrats want these policies enacted across the entire country. They admire figures such as the now tainted Andrew Cuomo and people like AOC. They look to NYC and NY Dem politics for leadership, counsel, and example.
The location puts to the test the very idea of their most inner principles. My observation was that those principles do not work in theory. Things like their bail reform, their negligent treatment of the homeless, their infantilization of certain groups of certain groups (particularly black people) of incapable of being criminals due to prior dehumanization and ill treatment, their overly dramatic Covid response, authoritarian approaches to leadership, not taking Supreme Court orders towards respecting gun ownership seriously, high taxes, income tax all point to a lower quality of life and living. Their policies, as per my life example, have been tested and I personally think they are bad for the country.
Please back up how they're good for America? We've seen the Democratic response to Covid and children are development delayed by years. Kids without access to computers were set adrift. People were fired and now there's mass shortages of key personnel. On and on and on. And that's one issue. Crime, homelessness, their culture of producing laziness and victimhood notwithstanding. I've been saying it for a year: liberalism is bad for America. Those have been my claims and any thing I've done is in pursuit of saving my country and our values from it. I will continue to do so.
Show me a single left policy that works besides universal healthcare and ending drug prohibition (which isn't exclusively left).
https://twitter.com/LaurenKGurley/status/1590429536789102593
https://twitter.com/kenklippenstein/status/1590404134939025408
https://twitter.com/WBUR/status/1590411820816367619
https://twitter.com/rmc031/status/1590193939038228480
Raising the minimum wage to 18 an hour does not work and is impractical.
1. It makes it the minimum wage.
2. Thus all other jobs are supposed to increase their wages.
3. Many jobs don't.
4. Those that do, many will raise the minimum wage but give less hours.
5. Despite all of this, things get more expensive to reflect higher wages.
In NYC many jobs touted 15 dollars an hour and many if not most would try to find ways to pay you less and cut your hours so you aren't working a full 40 hours or sometimes even a full 30 hours. That way they say they raised the minimum while still not paying your fair share. As a working class worker in bars and restaurants that is what I experienced. It was almost always a bad deal despite the claims of its positivity.
There's no evidence the Gen Z uptick was due to the Loan Forgiveness, although it might play a part.
So far your points are just conjecture and not actual "this is why I think we are right" defenses.
