YIMBY

The opposite of NIMBY is YIMBY. 

I was walking the other day and I saw a lawn worker blowing the lawn trimming and garbage across the street to the neighbor. I kind of think that's how America is run. Push it off on someone else.

A friend who has no children but likes political causes, was irate that school children in Brooklyn didn't get recess in a gym because there were refugees there. I saw in the paper that Adam had removed the refugees from the gym, so the crisis of recess was averted, sorry for the inconvenience. It's nice outside anyway, play outside in this glorious spring we're having. 

I have a visceral disgust for the New York Post headline: Dems are lying: There is no law that says NYC must house the world.

Politics is a complicated subject that requires maturity. I've shirked that maturity most of my life ignoring the feelings politics stirs up. But Covid and the president whom we shall not name shattered my illusions about America. 

We'll see if Abbott and Desantos will be prosecuted for interstate smuggling of immigrants:

Subsection 1324(a)(1)(i)-(v) prohibits alien smuggling, domestic transportation of unauthorized aliens, concealing or harboring unauthorized aliens, encouraging or inducing unauthorized aliens to enter the United States, and engaging in a conspiracy or aiding and abetting any of the preceding acts. (source)

Lawyers and justice are slow, but if you do enough it will eventually catch up to you. 

Conservatives are good at knocking down liberal fantasies. That's a useful perspective, not one I would build an identity around. I also recognize that these two psychological impulses that divide America into two psychological camps is imprecise. If you read the internet you can see all sorts of political expressions and variations. 

"The media often incorrectly report that this shelter system is an ironclad “right,” imposed by a court under a reading of the state constitution’s obligation to provide “aid, care, and support of the needy.” It is not." (NY Post)

To that I say YIMBY. That's my instinct. It's not this instinct: "New York City does not have the resources to shelter an unlimited number of migrants for an unlimited amount of time." Unlimited is a bit histrionic. I don't really see any solution offered, the implied solution is let them sleep on the street. Then the could complain about homeless on the street, without any solutions. A limited perspective with no solutions to real problems pretending to be realistic and pragmatic with hyperbolic emotional language.

I always get the feeling that conservatives of this ilk want a dictator to tell them this is the way it is, shut up. Biden is too democratic to say that. Wish conservatives were better critics than a childish rant.