Bill O’Reilly’s No Spin News and Analysis - Empire State O'Reilly: The Voters

Episode Date: February 21, 2024

Bill breaks down the voters in America, and New York Originally only available in the New York City area, Bill’s Empire State O’Reilly commentary addresses local New York issues, but those issues have implications, impact the country, and mirror problems in other states. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

I was on Sid this morning. I think Sid did, what, 18 hours? He's working a long shift this week. And that's not easy, by the way. I've done morning shifts, not a morning person. And, you know, to start your broadcast day at 6 in the morning, and I think he's going to 11, 5 hours. Well, anyway, tough. It's got a lot of energy you can handle it. So we're on there. I'm on there this morning. And we're talking about how New York State is almost hopeless. now in the way it is conducting the people's business, you, because it's dominated by progressive leftists and it doesn't look to me that it's coming back. So California is the best example. It's gone. It's never coming back. There's no other party in California other than liberal

Democrats. That's it. Some Republicans run around, but they have no power and they're never going to win again. It's gone. It's like Mississippi. Mississippi is never not going to be conservative. So New York is almost at the point of California, even though the progressive leadership in Albany and in New York City is killing the folks with taxes, terrible crime legislation, traffic choking, fees, tolls, danger. I mean, it's horrible. So how did that happen? And why, why, this is the most important question, can't the good people of New York change things and here is the answer there are three types of voters the aware voter who knows what's happening but those people are in the minority the majority are apathetic voters there many of them are

not even registered to vote apathetic citizens they don't care they're prisoners of of their cell phone. They create their own delusional world. They are not interested in public policy or voting or what's happening. They would never read a newspaper. They don't look for information. They don't know anything.

They just go blithely along. These are the substance abusers. These are the people who you could not possibly have a conversation unless it was something on the internet or a game. or a sport or something like this. You know them, you know them. They are apathetic about their country and their state.

And then there are the dependent voters, which if you combine with the apathetic voters, then you have a majority. The dependent voters are the poor people. Now, I, on Sunday, had to detour through the Bronx to get out to MetLife Stadium to watch the Islanders and Rangers. And I hadn't been in the South Bronx in a while. So I took my time, and I was looking at all the humongous housing projects and the density

and people who were out in the street and what they were doing. And all of them were either working class or poor. and they needed help to survive, and New York has a huge entitlement system. I mean, the public housing in the city dwarfs anything else in the country. And you have food stamps, and you have childcare, and you on and on and on. I'm not opposed if there's discipline brought to those programs. Some people need a hand up. The Democratic Party is aligned with the entitlement culture.

So the poor people essentially vote their wallets. They know the Republican Party is more self-reliance, less spending, so they go for the entitlement party of the Democrats. You combine that with the apathetic voters who don't care and don't know, and you can't, not in this state, overcome that. And the disaster that is unfolding before our eyes proves that progressive philosophy harms people even though it doles out free stuff.