“All were Democrats....gee go figure”
Long-time Democrat cities like Cleveland, Detroit, Gary, St. Louis, etc. are corrupt on levels approaching Third-World cities like in Chad or Nigeria.
And the fact that the residents keep electing the same corrupt pols over and over again enables it. The ginned-up racial hate of Republicans replaces common sense.
And don’t let anyone kid you. It’s ALL about race for many of these folks.
For a preview of total civil collapse as this disease spreads to the country as a whole, see Michael Lewis’ article on Greece:
http://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2010/10/greeks-bearing-bonds-201010?printable=true
Beware of Greeks Bearing Bonds
As Wall Street hangs on the question “Will Greece default?,” the author heads for riot-stricken Athens, and for the mysterious Vatopaidi monastery, which brought down the last government, laying bare the country’s economic insanity. But beyond a $1.2 trillion debt (roughly a quarter-million dollars for each working adult), there is a more frightening deficit. After systematically looting their own treasury, in a breathtaking binge of tax evasion, bribery, and creative accounting spurred on by Goldman Sachs, Greeks are sure of one thing: they can’t trust their fellow Greeks.
For a short-term pessimistic, longer-term semi-optimistic assessment of how we got here and what comes next, see:
The Guilty Ones Responsible for the Loss of our Liberties
http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2010/09/11/21402/
These institutions work only so long as the Constitution lives in our hearts. When it died there from slow starvation these institutions could only glide on until the natural action of powerful groups warped them to their service. Congress becomes an instrument for division of the spoils, ineffective otherwise. Our finest attorneys, whether at the Office of Legal Counsel or the Vokolh Conspiracy become apologists for the expansion of government power.
The responsibility for the Republic’s fall is ours. Where else could it rest? That this remains controversal shows our decay, our loss of will and strength. Just as the burden of self-government became too great for the people of Rome to bear, so has it become for us.
What next? The miracle of reform and regeneration always remain possible. Every generation offers a fresh start. But in case events develop in a way not to our advantage, we should start devising a plan B. What follows the death of the Constitution? How can we forge a third Republic (following the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution).