It Was a Helluva Town.

Watching New York City, the city of my ancestors back to when the lingua franca was Dutch, burn (again) is heartbreaking. Making it worse are the two incompetent clowns, the Mayor and the Governor, making fools of themselves constantly bickering with one another as mobs destroy everything in sight. Worse still, far worse, if those two buffoons, their malfeasance not withstanding, were to run for re-election, they would both win by huge margins, as they have in the past. You see, both have Ds after their names and both slavishly hew to the received body politic of the ruling class, for which nothing else matters. 

Since New York's voters then are ultimately responsible for the two horrors, de Blasio and Cuomo, letting the City go to ruin while they shoot spitballs at each other, I cannot imagine myself ever wanting to return, even for a short visit. To be among a citizenry that permitted the despoiling of the city I loved and lived in for so many years is simply more than I could bear.