And from the article, about the 30 blocks of squalor on West Chestnut Street in west Philly, I think this must be the laundromat, donut shop, porn house, even a Halal meet store... not mentioned by the blogger, who "supports" the Occupy movement.
Posted on 05/25/2012 9:05:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Yes i do.....all else being relative
“And the cities we bombed out of existence such as Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Berlin etc look modern, beautiful, vibrant and shining! Such dichotomy!!
But then all those American cities in decline are run by democrats. Will people ever wake up and smell the coffee?”
There is a “scent of coffee” in your statement that you yourself may not be smellin’.
Look at the faces of the people who lived in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and Berlin, then vs. now. The faces pretty much look the same (except, of course, for the influx of Muslims into Germany).
Next, look at the faces of the people who inhabited major American cities in 1940, vis-a-vis the faces of those who live in them today.
What has changed?
Hint: it wasn’t the politics, for the most part...
You don’t win by giving up.
“I too, am pessimistic and am convinced that we will balkanize. This may be be for the best though. Liberal and Conservative ideologies are incompatible, and I for one, do not wish to live with those who fervently believe that socialist-marxism is our future.”
A thoughtful post.
I would contend that the ONLY pathway to a future in which conservatives will thrive in North America is some kind of “post-American” solution. It will come -after- the existing USA has become so polarized and so balkanized that a unified co-existence between conservatives and the left is simply no longer possible.
When that happens, we will see a “Great Migration” of conservatives away from liberal areas to those parts of the nation in which they will be able to re-congregate and form overwhelming and (at least in their areas) un-challengeable majorities. Not so unlike the flight from California that we are seeing amongst productive people right now.
Conservatives would prefer to keep the nation intact, so long as they could be left alone in their own areas and live by the values and mores they choose, without harassment from the increasingly liberal and authoritarian federal government. They wouldn’t care how the left lived in their states, just so long as conservatives could still live by “the old values”.
But it’s the left that will NEVER permit this. For the left, it’s their way or else, and they will never be satisfied until everyone falls under their diktats. The left (and the feds) will use all the powers at their command, including the military and the increasingly militarized civilian police, to force their will upon conservatives.
Somewhere down the road in our future, I see a Soviet-style breakup as the ONLY peaceful solution to the otherwise intractable problems we are facing.
Conservatives and those who believe in the old ways — folks who are primarily Euro in heritage — will have to make the choice:
Go their own way, or...
Submit to a future of socialism and ever-increasing governmental power.
It’s going to be the choice of the century...
And from the article, about the 30 blocks of squalor on West Chestnut Street in west Philly, I think this must be the laundromat, donut shop, porn house, even a Halal meet store... not mentioned by the blogger, who "supports" the Occupy movement.
This was the subject of E Michael Jone’s book “The Slaughter of Cities: Urban Renewal as Ethnic Cleansing”
“Focusing on Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Chicago, Jones shows that Government sponsored “renewal” of American cities was not a program that failed by going sadly awry, but instead was a planned destruction of the ethnic neighborhoods that made up the human, residential heart of the cities”
http://www.culturewars.com/Reviews/SlaughterReviews.html
“I mean, we have fought a great Civil War where more than 700,000 died for their proper freedom,”
The war was fought specifically ‘to Preserve the Union’. The idea that it was the civil rights movement plus guns is just more modern nonsense trying to absorb the past into current controversies.
I saw it. You get it.
“Next, look at the faces of the people who inhabited major American cities in 1940, vis-a-vis the faces of those who live in them today.”
“What has changed?
Hint: it wasn’t the politics, for the most part...”
This is where those collections of Life Magazine photos from past decades are highly instructive.
All issues of Life are online here:
http://books.google.com/books?id=N0EEAAAAMBAJ#all_issues_anchor
Yes.
I know of no majority black city in the US that is NOT riddled with crime and decay. I know of no city in the US with a black population of under 5% that IS riddled with crime and decay.
Can anyone provide examples of cities where the above is NOT true?
I’m curious Wardaddy. Since you lay some of our modern problems at the feet of the “racial redress stuff” from the 1960’s, how do you think it should have gone? What should have been done differently from a racial standpoint?
That doesn't leave a whole lot of locations in the United States. I can't name too many places where a tank of gas doesn't get you from one sizable city to another. I can mentally, without a looking at a map on a single tanks of gas go from L.A. to Las Vegas, to Phoenix, to Albuquerque, to OKC, to Little Rock, to Nashville, to Charlotte, to Richmond, to Philly to NYC.
Good luck finding a place more than a tank of gas away from one city or another.
Is it honestly your contention that the problem is skin color? I’ve been scratching my head for weeks now wondering what the hell has happened to FR. The comments with racial overtones are waaaay over the top.
You poor thing.
If I may...
Bussing was an mistake of epic proportions. The federal judge who first mandated it admitted that it had been a mistake some years later.
Forced integration was too drastic -- and controversial -- a remedy for a situation that, left alone, would've solved itself.
Moreover, it shifted the emphasis of public education from education to social engineering -- and enforced enormous (and unnecessary) expenditures on transportation. In the process, it destroyed the neighborhood school concept and seriously diluted public education for all children -- black and white.
If the federal judiciary had been content to let nature take its course, integration would likely be a fact of life today -- while we are, in fact, further away from that goal than ever. And we might still have a functioning system of public education...
No. Skin color has nothing to do with it.
I’ve been scratching my head for weeks now wondering what the hell has happened to FR. The comments with racial overtones are waaaay over the top.
Let me ask this. Which would you move your family into - a neighborhood that was majority black or majority white?
Well, since you put it that way: My family did move into a neighborhood where whites are a minority. There are more black people in my neighborhood then white people, and more Hispanics yet still.
Furthermore, how do you think posts like this come across to black FReepers like Windflier who’ve I’ve just pinged? Sorry, but I’m not buying into this race thing. Worse, how do you think you represent this website to those who might be looking but haven’t joined, and who might happen to be black?
I witnessed the murder of Trenton NJ by Urban Redevelopment.
Interesting.
Now back to my question. Which would you move your family into - a neighborhood that was majority black or majority white?
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