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Originally Posted by Crawford
Nothing in this post is accurate. Entirely fabricated nonsense.
The reality is that AOC, who is extremely influential in local politics, torpedoed 40k new high-paying jobs because she's trying to make a name for herself nationally. And she succeeded, brilliantly. The reality is that NYC is poorer for her efforts. Anyone who calls themselves progressive should be upset at her demagoguery. It's probably the worst economic development news in modern NYC history, and at the same time we have an openly hostile President and Congress, who would like nothing better than to sink urban America.
The vast majority of New Yorkers, including liberal New Yorkers, supported this economic development, but stupid Trumpian populist tripe like "billionaires will be flying into Queens in helicopters while the poor sleep in the streets" muddied the waters enough that Bezos got cold feet, not wanting to deal with the political cluster---k around a wildly influential populist.
It may be that NY gets the jobs anyways. Maybe. But we don't know. What we know is that they won't be coming to Queens, where, in conjunction with Cornell Tech, there would have been a powerful new innovation ecosystem.
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Nothing you said here was accurate. Although a narrow plurality (not a majority) of voters supported the deal, they also disapproved of how the deal was made. If you go borough by borough, support is even more mixed. Liberal Manhattanites rejected the deal, as did conservative Staten Islanders. The district's councilman Van Brammer was against the deal. State senators and assemblymen were against the deal. Seattle councilmembers warned about any deals. Amazon was then raked over the coals in council meetings. Unions, transit and housing advocates, etc. protested the deal. Once the deal left the backroom of two deeply unpopular politicians (Cuomo and Deblasio), and into the public it got shredded. All this at a time when the MTA continued to fall apart, NYers continued to be squeezed by housing, and corporate welfare and tax evasion became a greater issue? This was a third rail issue.
The corporate media loves to put up Ocasio Cortez as a bogeyman or heroine, but she only gets a lot of credit because of that media attention. Demagoguery only works if people focus on figureheads, either as heroes or villains. As they say, "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people."