When push comes to shove .. and remember, these people and their families live and work in the very prime target of Manhattan - they know how vulnerable they are and will toss their ideology out the window to keep their a$$e$ safe.
Therein lies the ‘problem’, no? Though we can see w/out the rose-colored/Leftist specs, it takes the other (tipping-point yet?) 1/2 a kick-in-the-teeth moment to (partially/momentarily) come around.
Something about ‘fixing stupid’ comes to mind...