MajesticLion
Veteran
Maybe 60% of it. The rest has to be done through proper leadership for an extended period of time.
True. And for that, everybody has to be playing by agreed-upon rules. They're not.
Cuomo is letting billionaires plan New York's future. It doesn't have to be this way | Zephyr Teachout and Pat Garofalo
Even if Schmidt and Gates had good policies, Cuomo’s knighting of them is offensive to American self-government. Nobody voted for them and they are accountable to no one. Cuomo, often accused of being too close to big campaign donors, is tripling down: he is simply allowing billionaires to plan our future directly, taking out the middlemen.
In case you had any doubt that this is a new form of government worming its way into our old democratic ways, Cuomo anointed these tsars at the exact same time that he took vast new powers away from the state legislature, which has not been holding regular legislative hearings since 1 April. Lawmakers are notably MIA in the middle of a pandemic – and by all accounts Cuomo likes it that way.
Turning away from locally-elected representatives, and towards billionaires with no accountability, represents a terrible erosion of democratic decision-making: Cuomo is quite literally replacing elected representatives with private, unaccountable monopolists. And too many other lawmakers across the US are doing the same thing.
For all their talk, there are several politicians who quietly envy the way Trump & Co simply don't pretend to even care about the rules...and wish they could do the same. Power corrupts.