Stockton is still California and fully invested in Barack Obama's Amerika. It is still counting on help from Washington and Sacramento and is still making payments to CalPERS for all of its retired public employees who are living large off of those still lucky to have a job out there.
So what if the city is unlivable and unsafe during the nighttime hours. 2/3 of a city is better than none and the politicians and police and firemen are just biding their time there until they too can tap that CalPERS retirement and get away to Nevada or Montana or Idaho and turn those cities into the next Stockton and their capitols into the next Sacramento.
I don’t disagree with your assessment, but let’s not pretend that Stockton was born under Obama. It was birthed by an intractable system and Obama is only the latest spokesperson.
I don’t think many of us make fun of North Koreans. Most of us recognize these people are brainwashed human beings born into a political system and nation they don’t control. At what point do we, the ones who can see (and pay for this), recognize the same reality now exists for our own fellow citizens who can vote to sustain it?