>From Neil Smith, "'Giuliani Time'" Shrinkage of the poor population in general, including home- less people, is "not an unspoken part of our strategy," the mayor once explained at a "confidential" meeting of newspaper editors. "That is our strategy."19 And the strategy worked. The erstwhile liberal galleries applauded. " *We're not suicidal liberals anymore* ," announced one community activist turned antihomeless crusader.20 Or, in the true spirit of revanchism: As a lifelong New Yorker doing graduate studies in Chicago, I am grateful that New York re-elected Rudy Giuliani. *Of course he's a dictator, but maybe it takes a dictator to run this city. The streets are safer, there's hardly any porn on 42nd Street (believe me, I've looked!). And people actually want to live in New York City. Sure he's unfair to the poor, but what politician isn't. At least Rudy isn't phony about it.21 Our letter writer only omitted the claim that the subway trains also run on time (not)*
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#1464): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/1464 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76799395/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
