NY is the "least free" state in America.

[Grouse]

Emphasis on the Empire State: Every people gets the government they deserve, and New Yorkers — who had a chance last year to oust their Big Government leftist governor, Kathy Hochul, for a popular and highly regarded small government conservative, Lee Zeldin — are getting theirs good and hard.

As the New York Post reports, "New York once again has the dubious distinction of being labeled 'the least free state' in America, according to a report issued by libertarian-leaning think tank The Cato Institute. The Empire State ranked dead last — 50th — for policies impacting economic, social and personal freedoms in 2022, the report claims." In contrast, the Free State of Florida ranked second in the report, perhaps fittingly behind only the "Live Free or Die" state of New Hampshire as the most free state in the union. "It is little wonder," said the report's authors, "that New Yorkers are fleeing the state in droves. New Yorkers have been voting with their feet for years." And who can blame them?

Makes me wonder if the election was legitimate.

[New York Hillbilly]

With the decades long exodus, New York should have as it's motto, "Live Free or Fly".

 

[SportsmanNH]

Read it and weep. Then scroll down and look at the voting results map . Easy to see what influences the results of New York elections . Its only the cities that vote your fruitcake Lib democrats in . They make the poor poorer and keep promising them more free stuff and keep making the rich richer to keep getting their big reelection donations .How else do you think stupid people like Ocasio Cortez , Raheem Jeffries and the Wicked Witch Hochul keep getting elected.

https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-ny/politics/2022/11/09/interactive--how-new-yorkers-voted-in-the-2022-election-for-governor

Edited November 24, 2023 by SportsmanNH

[airedale]

Pretty bad when it is so you can not even get hunting knives shipped here, slowly but surely going down the toilet, everything the Democrats get control of turns to crap!

Al

[Northcountryman]

This is pretty scary: 

https://x.com/Tslind33/status/1730855206634852535?s=20

 

With that new strain of respiratory virus picking up speed in (Guess where!!) China, how long till this becomes a reality for us here in NY?

 

[Grouse]

Just proves the Democrats have no regard for The Constitution, individual rights or due process.  They want the power to control everything. You think they won't be selectively enforcing who goes to one of these "Quarantine Camps"? It will become a way to neutralize political opposition.  China sends people to these camps, and others refer to those camp folks as people who were "disappeared".

As far as elections go, I think Democrats have learned how to steal elections and get away with it.  Therefore, we are not going to be able to vote our way out of this mess.  The left is provoking a fight it seems to want.  Perhaps they see it as a way to eliminate their political opposition and retain power for life.

This is what you can expect when an election turns into a political coup, as it did in 2020.

[Northcountryman]

It will be weaponized, for sure.

[Shoots100]

Well, It's no wonder that NY state just reinstated the compulsory quarantine law and NYC was also voted by several traveler sites as the rudest city in America.

[Northcountryman]

If we're #1, then California has to be a close 2nd, right? I see on the news they arrested a dude in Ca for shooting at home intruders; can you believe that?