Sorry, &quot;socialist utopia&quot; in this case is reclaimed from the Republican insanity of the last 8 years, where any government program is &quot;socialism&quot; and ergo synonymous with evil. I&#x27;m not suggesting the majority of New Yorkers want a dictatorship of the proletariat, I just mean most of us want to have the public infrastructure necessary to live in the city, and would probably be ok with better social programs. And would you deny that the city is more &quot;liberal&quot; than Upstate?