Responding to Dowd on Cuomo

New York writers and New York politicians see politics, plays, and unperfectible man, through a glass, darkly. There is glib toughness behind sexual innuendo, intellectual competence, and philosophical slow dancing. But the competition for love and glory walks on the road that rarely passes through New York, although, at times, it doesn't go through New York, but languishes in the streets with a few playwrights, a few competitive athletes, and a cab driver or two have driven the Razor's Edge of Broadway from evening playtime and late night pool rooms. But the New York philosophy ultimately strives to implement "All men are created equal" but seems too frail to fight for it, believing it to be "an idea" as opposed to a fact. While others believe in the fatality of being pinned upon a wall then climbing down with a vengeance and becoming competent to lie, cheat, and steal, in an honorable way or not, to finally, at last, believe they are someone. FDR was someone because he never had to prove to himself that he was. Families, like the Roosevelts, the Kennedys, the Bushes, the Cuomos, The Fords, Rockefellers, show that ideas of government, duty, love, family, and self can be seen in different ways, evolve through generations, and survive with courage and intellect that is big and worthy. That "worthiness" comes out from living and dying for what is bigger than culture, money, dancing in the streets, hitting a double, banking in the eight ball. We should stay alive...