The fools and idiots who moved to NJ to escape high taxes and political garbage in NY vote for the same types who make laws leading to high taxes and political garbage in NJ. They’re like metastatic cancers and corrupt all societies in which they exist.
The change in the last 50 years in what is now suburban NJ has been nothing short of astounding.
In those days, small-town NJ was a bastion of conservatism, having very few ex-”city dwellers” in them. Many towns were diehard Christian, Republican and small-business. It was truly a different world than it is today.
But the mass migration was starting to kick into high gear and now the populations of small towns are many times what they were then, and almost all of the growth has been from migration from the cities.
All the big-city ideas followed; most politicians in the suburbs have no family history in the towns that they govern, being very recent arrivals.
Most of the oldtime population has either moved away or died of old age.
Please send reinforcements.