I am proud to be an educated and civilized person. Consequential to these attributes, I am an unabashed supporter of governments in general and of the UN in particular. I understand how governments make us better than laissez faire, and I understand the dilemma we face is too little government, not too much.
I've diarized as to the likely need for the UN to move from New York City and the U.S. and as to New York Mayor Bloomberg as a RINO-INO.
The two stories are interlinked.
Despite the well-funded revisionism, Michael Bloomberg is actually a Republican who was a Democrat in Name Only until he realized he could buy the NYC mayoralty by pretending to be a Republican in Name Only. Bloomberg has refused to call out the radical right wing of the Republican Party, he has pandered to them on the issue of gay marriage by authorizing an appeal on the taxpayers' dime, and his mayoralty has been dominated by corporate welfare of a magnitude never seen in the US. And, to the link, Bloomberg has sat by silently while his Republican masters have tried to eliminate any influence and relevance for the UN.
John Bolton is the personification of this virulent orchestrated predatory attack. As referenced in this diary, Bolton can be seen as a psychopath by anyone with any sense. Bloomberg certainly has sense, but he has remained silent on Bolton.
Bloomberg is well aware his silence on the UN-bashing in general and Bolton in particular feeds a misperception rampant among right-wing underachievers in the talkradiosphere, one that the US is a magannimous donor to the UN and the UN is an ungrateful child of ours. Nothing could be farther from the truth, of course. Not only is the US miserly with regards the UN, pointedly in terms of this diary the UN is a boon to New York City. The UN represents thousands of high-paying jobs here, and is responsible for millions upon millions of dollars to the local economy from tourism and other manifestations of being a global crossroads city.
When one of his cigar-smoking buddies on Wall Street (you understand the smoking ban doesn't apply to the billionaires, right?) needs some corporate welfare, Bloomberg swings into immediate action. When the UN, an economic engine the equal of any here, is under attack from Bloomberg's right-wing brothers in Republicandom, there is silence.