From
Auster:
As I said weeks ago, this is the way it is with liberal politicians such as Michael Bloomberg. They let a bad situation continue on and on and get worse and worse, in the meantime adopting all kinds of pious liberal poses to justify their lack of action to fix the situation, and only take action when the problem becomes completely intolerable and has caused much harm that could have been readily avoided if they had acted sooner.
That's how they maintain their identity and legitimacy as liberals. If they had acted sooner, they would be seen as "oppressive right wingers." By not acting until their liberal constituents' unprincipled exceptions to their own liberalism have blossomed ("Oooh, I believe in the right of protest, I believe in fighting the greedy corporations, but I can't stand the the noise, the smell, the inconvenience any more. Help!"), they preserve their liberal credentials.
That is, they impose their Oppression in the name of liberalism until it becomes "too much", i.e. "things have gone too far", and then they throw their liberal "principles" out the window and act like they should have in the first place, like those dreaded "right-wingers".
Any thinking person can brain-storm the eventual and logical end of almost any course of action today, within reason. But the Left doesn't think; they emote, they feeeeeel, they "intend", and they're always covertly surprised when what any rational person could have predicted comes to pass. "Unexpected"!