Tyranny of the Majority
Greater New York City is closing in on being one-half the population of New York State. Like many states in the union, the elevated extent of city votes has a tendency to control and decide its governorship, state legislature as well as federally with the president, senators, and, to a slightly lesser extent, representatives.
As discussed in The Atlantic article, “How Democrats Conquered the City”, one can clearly see that liberals and progressives have gained density jurisdiction and power. This brings into play the “Tyranny of the Majority” considered “an inherent weakness to majority rule in which the majority of an electorate pursues exclusively its own objectives at the expense of those of the minority factions”.
Thus, if one lives in smaller communities or in rural areas of specific states, and leans towards conservative principles, their candidates may never serve and their vote never meets with success. In this exact manner, and because anthropogenic climate change is a leftist political creed, people in many small towns, villages, and agrarian areas are required to endure politically motivated climate change mandates or legislative orders.
Living in the western United States there are always indications that the middle and eastern portions of Washington, Oregon, and California would like to secede from their respective states because the larger coastal cities dominated by Democrats control the governor’s office and legislative assemblies.
Because oil and gas resources and access facilities are not located in such places as Times Square, rural folk are constantly losing livelihoods and employment opportunities. This occurs, as well, with mining, logging, and specific manufacturing plants. Farming and ranching can also be affected as government overreach begins to curtail the consumption of meat.
In the Washington Post article, “N.Y. ditches gas stoves, fossil fuels in new buildings in first statewide ban in U.S.” the state legislature has prohibited natural gas and other fossil fuels for all new construction statewide. In this case, the Tyranny of the Majority is exploited and well-defined when the article reads, “. . . the measure does not do what some climate activists had feared: give cities and counties license to override the ban.”
New York State has budgeted $229 billion for their modifications to infrastructure but will need plenty more when suits start to fly relative to excessive government overreach and prohibition of freedoms relative to choice. While the taxpayers will be stuck paying these undue costs, housing prices will increase dramatically with the need for heat pumps rather than traditional furnaces. As more and more fossil fuel plants are shut down, electrical rates are expected to sky-rocket which, like Britain, will likely entail government subsidies and subsequent additional burdens on the taxpayer.
Furthermore, the measure does not necessarily reduce the need for fossil fuel piping since manufacturing facilities, restaurants, hospitals, and carwashes are all exempt from the gas ban. As these and other needless, anti-human policies begin to take hold one of the best businesses to have in New York State will be a U-Haul rental business - more and more people will be heading for Florida.
Ironically the story cites, “Advocates are also eyeing Chicago, where the heavily blue city recently elected a liberal mayor”. I think that is rather a pointless assertion simply because, according to ‘Ballotpedia’, The Encyclopedia of American Politics, “For the first 90 years during which Chicago had a mayor, voters elected mayors from a variety of parties; Democrats, Republicans, Whigs and more all held the city's top position. That changed after 1927, the year Chicagoans elected their last non-Democratic mayor for at least 90 years”.
The website “Learning for Justice” cites, “In theory, every citizen has a voice at the ballot box. But the principle of majority rule means that some voices don’t get heard. At various times in our history, lack of minority representation in government has allowed the majority to abuse minority rights”. In some cases, in a democracy, there should be a majority rule with minority rights, especially when conditions, situations, and humanity warrant. This may just be one such matter.