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Arleare13 t1_itvpmjo wrote

> He would win only because of crime and declining QOL.

Do you think he would constrain his governance of the state to those areas? I don't. I think he'd do whatever he could to persecute minorities, destroy people's rights, and undermine future elections.

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TonysCatchersMit OP t1_itvrlv4 wrote

The legislature is still Democratic.

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Arleare13 t1_itvsomm wrote

And there are still a lot of things a governor can do on their own. Executive orders, funding decisions, political appointments... what happens when he declares that abortion is a public health emergency, or that he's defunding the NYC school system because they teach tolerance of gay people, or that he's dismissing all Democratic district attorneys statewide? Do you think it'd be above a Trump cultist to declare that any future elections that don't go the way he wants were fraudulent and must be tossed out? As governor, he could at least try.

Like I said, it's shortsighted to think that you can send a message by voting for Zeldin without serious collateral consequences. There are better paths to what you want to accomplish.

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TonysCatchersMit OP t1_itvu4i1 wrote

What paths?

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Arleare13 t1_itvvtuf wrote

Make your voice heard in the Democratic primaries. There's a wide diversity of opinion within the Democratic party on this issue, and there will be candidates down to the most local elected offices who agree with you on it. They'll move in the direction you want on crime, without handing the state over to the racists/homophobes/etc.

Just for some additional perspective on what a governor can do even without a friendly legislature, the far-right governor of Virginia recently issued new directives to schools mandating the persecution of transgender students. This was done without legislative approval, because he claims that he doesn't need it to set that sort of policy; the courts will ultimately decide. This is the sort of thing that Zeldin will do if he's given the power to. He's not going to fire DA Bragg then just sit around for four years. He's going to use whatever power he can to implement his far-right agenda.

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TonysCatchersMit OP t1_itwnyof wrote

Yeah, I ranked Adams #1 and then voted for him. Working out great.

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