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>>far beyond her constitutional powers as the governor

That’s because there are no penalties for violating the Oath of Office they take - the courts will simply override her decision at some point.

If by chance they don’t she will simply reverse her decision - after the election.

This is pure politics by a politician who cares only about herself and her party.

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Political parties are organizations fighting over political power. If they have local monopoly over power (which is the case in NY) they can do whatever they want without consequences. Multiparty systems should be a solution to this but often times fail because power concentrates in 2-3 parties in the short term.

It only concentrates like that in FPTP systems.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=s7tWHJfhiyo

Or you end up with a bunch of minority parties and one that has managed to cobble together a larger coalition. Multi party systems aren’t the panacea FPTP critics make it out to be (and I dislike FPTP as well). The truth of the matter is that people aren’t as varied in their opinions as you think in practice in a representative democracy. The reason is that while any single issue may have a plurality of opinions, democracies generally install a decision maker for all policies so you end up voting for the party that represents you on the issues you care about or has the leadership you’d like to see, which significantly narrows down the sets of opinions.

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