Awww, what happened? I thought you weawwy, weawwy hoped bad things wouldn’t happen to New York because you wanted ever so much to visit? For those who didn’t read this thread, adaher said the divisive Democratic primary was bringing “Balkanized” politics back to New York City. Polls currently show de Blasio with a lead of about 50 points. I guess that’s similar to the Balkan nation of Landslidevania.
How can I not take you at your word here? 
Yes, the city went broke primarily because of the collapse of the auto industry, which was a huge part of its economy, and ensuing decades of white flight that depleted its population and tax base. There were certainly many other problems and Detroit had a lot of bad leadership. Your initial claim in the Elections thread was that New York City a few decades ago was pretty much just like Detroit except it started electing Republicans who fixed its problems. Even though I don’t know much about Detroit, I had no trouble showing that that was wrong on every level. Even at its worst, New York’s crime was never at Detroit levels - and I mean New York vs. Detroit at the same time, not then vs. now - and it never suffered a severe population drain like Detroit did. The city was in trouble, but not that kind of trouble. Republicans didn’t stop New York City from turning into Detroit. It was just never going to happen.
Which meant nothing, you simpering moron. This is why people like Nate Silver understood that Obama was always highly likely to win and people like you were either ignoring polls that didn’t tell them what they wanted to hear or made statements like ‘Gee whiz, Nate Silver sure has bet his reputation on this one!’ You were aware of advanced analysis of the polls, so you can’t claim ignorance. You didn’t believe it and you were dead wrong. I could go on, but your posts from that time are sort of a delicious sampler of everything Republicans misunderstood about that election.