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I Cannot Care More About Blue Cities Than Their Voters Do
Townhall ^ | 10/09/2023 | Kurt Schlichter

Posted on 10/09/2023 9:06:44 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

What we’re seeing in the Democrat cities is a total breakdown of civilization. That’s not an exaggeration. You don't have a civilization when normal people can’t walk down the street without having to dodge junkies, piles of human waste, and knife-wielding maniacs. You have chaos. But chaos is OK with the inhabitants of the Democrat big cities. I know that because they keep electing people who allow their cities to be chaotic. I’m supposed to be outraged and upset by this, but my caring bandwidth is limited. I can only care about so much, and what I cannot do is care more about the plight that the blue voters have placed themselves in than the blue voters who elected the Democrats who allow this to happen do.

Blue cities, this is your problem, not mine. I don’t live in one. I live near one, but not inside it. Instead, I live in a suburb around many rich liberals who absolutely will not tolerate such nonsense. Our schools never have 0% of the students testing as proficient, like in blue Baltimore. The moms would never allow that. Instead, they prepare our kids to go to Ivy League colleges. Our streets are safe to walk, and whenever a random loser sets foot in our little Shangri-La by the Beach, a bunch of very big cops come with the total support of the Chardonnay wine mommies with the “Hate Has No Home Here” signs in front of their multi-million dollar townhouses and descend upon them like the Valkyries. You don’t hear complaints about cops hassling street people in my town. You don’t get complaints about police brutality. What you get is safe and clean streets.

Misery is for the poor, but the poor could outvote the Volvo voters if they wanted to. They choose not to. They choose to elect leftist Democrats with rich libs’ luxury beliefs, and their choice has consequences.

Understand me. I don’t think that people in blue cities should not have safe and clean streets. I think they should. But they don’t think they should. And I know they don’t think they should because they refuse to elect people who will ensure they do. Don’t tell me that these problems are intractable and unsolvable because we watched Rudy Giuliani take New York City back from the Taxi Driver abyss when it was equally scummy and turn it into an urban paradise. I remember my first trip to New York City. It was fantastic. I didn’t worry about getting mugged. I didn’t worry about violent vagrants. I just enjoyed the nightlife and restaurants. But the people of New York City decided they wanted to go in a different direction. They wanted to go down, down into the depths of hell. And now that they are down there, they seem sad. Well, I would be sad for them, but there are a lot of other things I have to be sad about, and their bad choices are at the end of that long list.

Of course, it was inevitable that murder and other social pathologies would not remain just a problem for the poor. The chaos is affecting the libs of pallor, so the libs of pallor who have not bolted to the suburbs are starting to get concerned. In the last week, a tech zillionaire was butchered by a violent criminal who should have been in prison but was let out because Maryland thinks it’s meant to lock up rapists. Another guy, a big defund the police moron, got stabbed by the same kind of degenerate in New York while his commie girlfriend watched and then refused to give cops a description because she didn’t want to see the guy charged. When the cops did find the killer, the regime media decided to play along with the criminals-as-victim lie by blurring his face. This, of course, did not apply to the guy who restrained a different violent lunatic on an NYC subway and who is now charged with manslaughter because that lunatic expired. The hero – again, who is being prosecuted for protecting people from one of these freaks – had his face put out there unblurred. This is what is known as “equity.”

I am also told on Twitter or X or whatever that I am not supposed to gloat over the misfortune of those who created their own misfortune, including this leftist creep’s death. I don’t recall gloating, but I do recall shrugging. Naturally, it took about five seconds to find the tweets where this jerk chortled over the passing of Rush Limbaugh. Basically, this guy was delighted at the thought of our deaths, but we’re not supposed to recognize that for some reason. Well, I do anyway. Once again, we are required to follow arbitrary rules that our enemies ignore – and yes, I consider somebody who would celebrate my death an enemy. I’m funny about that.

But I’m not gloating because I’m not going to waste a second of my time thinking about this guy because he didn’t waste a second of his time thinking about himself. His death directly results from the very same policies he actively pursued. I understand that consequences are racist and transphobic and part of the patriarchy, but they’re also a thing. I will point out that he and others like him made the reality that killed him. If that makes people sad, I don’t care. And if they think that makes me a wrong person, go ahead and think that. I am entirely indifferent to the moral judgments of people who refuse to take the essential actions required to maintain a civilized society.

San Francisco is in danger of losing 50% of its police force. Seattle and the other blue cities are pretty much the same. Turns out that if you defund the police, you get less of them – and more murderers and rapists. They are also all sanctuary cities because being a sanctuary city was hip and cool until it started to cost something. Now, they are being overrun by Third World transients and the domestic variety, and it’s costing them a fortune. Good. I want them to feel the pain of their own stupidity instead of Texas feeling it for them. For too long, they were able to posture without a price, but now that bill is coming due. And when they cry to us for help, we will shrug our collective shoulders and observe that we can’t and won’t help them until they decide to help themselves. 



TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; bluecities; chaos; cities; collapse; crime; dystopia; schlichter
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To: Alberta's Child
Pick a random auto manufacturing plant in the U.S. today … the Honda plant in Marysville (Ohio), for example. Then find a location in New York City or Chicago where anything close to that size could fit.

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Sorry. Not buying your argument. Detroit especially has massive amounts of usable land that simply needs to be leveled. Multiple square miles of trashed unlivable houses. There is land-o-plenty.

The reason that Honda / Toyota / Nissan , etc. is not in Detroit is real simple.

No union scum. UAW - United Against Work

41 posted on 10/10/2023 4:55:30 AM PDT by mund1011 (We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality)
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To: SeekAndFind

Overall, I agree with him. My only caveat is that we don’t really know if they ARE voting for these people. We only know that those who count the votes SAY they voted for these people. And in certain cities, there is a machinery in place, if you know what I mean.


42 posted on 10/10/2023 5:10:10 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: SeekAndFind

What cities aren’t blue?


43 posted on 10/10/2023 5:16:42 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: Alberta's Child

So the “final solution” is to send the factory, the know how, jobs and the wealth creation to the third world - right globalist?


44 posted on 10/10/2023 5:19:59 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: SeekAndFind

An article I can agree with. Leftist cities decaying simply because the voters want it to decay.

There is a fear that the mass illegal infiltration across our border contains numerous terrorists. Most of these people are going to leftist areas. If these terrorists strike with deadly attacks, it will likely be on the most vulnerable, which would be these leftist strong holds.

The terrorists are likely smart enough not to attack a red state where the general populous is heavily armed.

Imagine, terrorists with knives, machetes and whatever they can find breaking into homes in a planned attack and hacking unarmed people to death.

This would be sheer terror that was invited by our own governments policies.


45 posted on 10/10/2023 5:26:59 AM PDT by redfreedom (Joseph Stalin: "It does not mater how anyone votes, how votes are counted is what matters.")
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To: central_va
So the "final solution" is to send the factory, the know how, jobs and the wealth creation to the third world ...

Absolutely not. The solution is to build the factory right here in the U.S. in a place that can accommodate a 7.5 million square foot facility on 1,300+ acres of land.

This is roughly the size of the Toyota plant in Georgetown, Kentucky.

There isn't any place in New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, etc. where you could build a facility like this. Even if you close Central Park and give all the land to Toyota at no expense, that still only gets you about 850 acres.

46 posted on 10/10/2023 6:17:19 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: mund1011
Detroit especially has massive amounts of usable land that simply needs to be leveled.

Sit down and figure out the cost of demolishing a thousand acres of existing buildings and infrastructure, and then compare it to the cost of building on undeveloped land.

Then see if you have two of the most critical off-site needs for a major auto manufacturing facility available in the middle of Detroit: (1) Class I railroad access for outbound shipments of finished vehicles, and (2) proximity to an intermodal rail terminal for inbound deliveries.

47 posted on 10/10/2023 6:22:30 AM PDT by Alberta's Child (If something in government doesn’t make sense, you can be sure it makes dollars.)
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To: Carriage Hill

indeed


48 posted on 10/10/2023 11:04:03 AM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: SeekAndFind

The worst part about all of it is, the ones that can afford to move, the affluent liberal, move and set about destroying the next place.

They’re the ones, more than any other that cause these problems. They’re the ones with the money to fund campaigns or live in places that aren’t effected by the violence.

Take Seattle years ago during the riots. The Mayor and her neighbors lived in the city. Far removed from all the violence and chaos taking place. But, when protesters showed up on her street the cops were there within moments to get rid of them.


49 posted on 10/10/2023 12:44:32 PM PDT by qaz123
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