Posted on 03/04/2019 11:43:06 AM PST by Liberty7732
What Chicago needs is an honest, non-corrupt, economically literate, competent mayor that can lift the once-great city out of the tragic farce it has become.
Esther Cepeda, in one of the most insipidly stupid takes on politics I’ve read in quite awhile — and that’s saying something — believes that the gender and skin color of the next Chicago mayor is all that is needed to miraculously turn the city around, heal racial wounds, lower crime rates, improve economics and, perhaps, bring unicorns prancing on rainbows!
It’s so bad one has to ask, even in these times, how in the world do some people get nationally syndicated columns through the Washington Post Group? Let’s start at the beginning of the nonsense. Probably best not to be eating while I quote from Cepeda.
“Finally, a spot of good news for a beleaguered city that has long been known as a hotbed of racism and government-sanctioned segregation: the promise of Chicago’s first black, female mayor.
In a dogpile of a mayoral race, 14 candidates fought it out to connect to voters who had long ago given into a nasty case of learned helplessness. The two top winners — both black women — beat out a rich scion of a Chicago political dynasty, a Latina state official, the city’s former top cop and a bevy of other local luminaries.
The two finalists are former assistant U.S. attorney Lori Lightfoot and Cook County Board President Toni Preckwinkle. And no matter which one of them wins the April 2 runoff Chicago’s inauguration of a female African-American mayor will make a kind of history that none of the other top cities in America can claim.”
Set aside the overt racialism and bigotry over assuming based on skin color and gender alone that the next mayor will be better, what is she even factually talking about? “Inauguration of a female African-American mayor will make a kind of history that none of the other top cities in America can claim?” Um…Baltimore is on it’s third straight black woman mayor. And look how great Baltimore is doing! OK, actually it’s racked by racial strife, incompetence, a skyrocketing murder rate and a so-so economy despite being right next door to D.C.
Let’s see, who else? Oh yeah, Washington, D.C. elected a black female mayor; San Francisco elected a black female mayor; Atlanta elected a black female mayor; New Orleans elected a black female mayor; Charlotte, N.C. elected a black female mayor. Oh heck, here’s a full list here.
So what in the world is she talking about? And does she have an editor? When she says “top cities” is she saying New York and L.A.? That’s cherry-picking at its worst. Pretty sure most rational people could consider San Fran and D.C. among America’s top cities. But it is the sort of dishonesty we come to expect from the media. Even opinion writers should be held to a standard of some sort. But I dream.
More Cepeda” “And it’s a relief, indicating that there are still strides people of color can hope for…”
Because again, not the quality of the candidate, the issues, the plans, dare I say even, the content of their character, is what is important. Black. Female. Better. That’s the entire measuring stick. Nothing racist or bigoted here at all, folks.
More Cepeda:
So, yeah, the city could use good news in the form of a historic change of leadership from Rahm Emanuel, a big-interests-focused political operator. Either one of these two women could, in theory, address the neglect of the African-American community, which has caused what some experts consider to be a mass migration of black people out of the city and into the suburbs, neighboring Indiana or the Southern states where the original Great Migration began.”
I believe “address the neglect” translates to: A black female mayor will give blacks more stuff. If it meant reforming the school system, attacking the total decimation of the black family, changing the attitude towards education and jobs among young, black men specifically, and maybe even creative opportunity zones for investment, then that could really be something. But given Cepeda’s level of thought and insight, pretty sure she just means more stuff.
And finally, which of these two candidate finalists will win? Let’s look at one last note in Cepeda’s description to get a clue:
“At least it won’t be a boring race. As evidenced by her campaign thus far, Lightfoot — a self-proclaimed out and proud black lesbian — has seemingly never even heard of the “be nice” political playbook that’s expected of women politicians — perhaps a winning formula for other, future female high-office candidates?”
Straw man alert! Who exactly is expecting women to be “be nice” in politics? Not exactly what we’ve been seeing. And of course in another context, Cepeda would be bemoaning the state of our mean politics. What is really at work here is just the tired retread thinking of liberalism’s past quarter century.
Now, based on intersectional hierarchy, the black female lesbian candidate beats the black female candidate 3-2 in intersectional scoring. (Content of ideas need not apply.) But Chicago is well-known as a corrupt Democratic city and the non-lesbian black female candidate is part of that power structure. So it is entrenched power versus intersectional power.
Despite Cepeda’s fact-free, knee-jerk, stuck-in-a-rut thinking, it’s all but impossible to see how the city improves either way. Not, of course, because they are black women, but because they are shades of Chicago Democratic progressivism, which has proven itself a deep failure already. Changing faces won’t change the outcome.
Unfortunately, Cepeda and her fellow travellers will think the election itself means the city wins. That wasn’t the case with Barack Obama’s election as president. And it won’t be the case with Chicago’s choice.
The unspoken truth is that these people have no intention of lifting Chicago out of the tragic farce it has become. They are using public office for self-gain, and to rub in Whitey’s face the fact that they are in charge.
As soon as they take office their corruption becomes evident.
Cry racism. Get elected. Give Whitey the finger. Bring the city down some more.
Same thing happens in all mainly whining-minority cities.
They move out and still vote for democrats..
Better call Oprah.
What Chicago is voting for itself is more socialism. More taxation. More bills left for your future.Hey, good luck with that.
All your retirees are moving to Texas and Florida.
All your rich folk too.
When will the people, who have tossed it “all in” with the dhimmicrats, finally realize that the Democrat campaign platform always is:
Vote for us (D) and we’ll make sure that the mean old Republicans don’t change a thing. You’ll still have your safety net, abortion, EBT, ADC, WIC, unemployment. Don’t worry NOTHING WILL CHANGE when we are in office.
#kanyeknows
#candaceknows
Could she do any worse?
You wonder if anything will change in Chicago with the new black female mayor.
Yes it will be trumpeted as some major civil rights step forward for women and/or minorities.
But will she take actions against the severe problems facing Chicago?
Will the youth gangs still run rampant, terrorizing the south and west sides? Will they still sometimes emerge into nicer parts of town and cause mayhem?
Will the schools still be among the worst in America?
Will chickens come home to roost, with the long term financial mismanagement which has happened in Chicago? Will she be able to resolve those financial problems?
Will she do anything in the area of economic development, which would touch on some other issues facing the city?
Will anything change, just because you have a black woman mayor?
Time will tell.
The various black male mayors over the past 36 years have done nothing but watched it spiral down. Changing gender isn’t going to help if they keep voting D. What Chicago needs is a businessman or businesswoman of any color. Local governments have grown too large for politicians and community organizers who don’t know a thing about money management on a large scale.
Yes it will be trumpeted as some major civil rights step forward for women and/or minorities.
chicago's already had a black mayor AND a female mayor, each producing quite unremarkable results, close to 30 years ago
the only new thing is the light footed one, whose gender attributes may come in handy sould the lake start to leak
Chicago has serious fiscal problems; however, as long as enough people are foolish enough to continue buying Chicago municipal bonds the city will avoid bankruptcy, no matter who the mayor is.
It’s Chicago .... it will be run by a mob ruler like it has since the ‘20s ... just which mob will rule is up for grabs.
Chicago is so far down the toilet why not elect a plunger and finish the job?
Understand Chicago politics. Half the candidates are in the race for the sole purpose of peeling votes off other candidates. They get rewarded with a no-show job for a couple years for doing it. They have no delusions about being in it to win.
Cepeda’s sole job is to peel votes of Susannah Mendoza one of the more moderate candidates and probably coming in 3rd, just a few votes behind the top two that make the runoff.
Susannah used to join the Republican Caucus in Springfield and joke that if she lived in the suburbs she would be a Republican... a moderate Republican on economic issues and a social conservative, but still a Republican.
The problem in running that city is that whatever policies the mayor comes up with has to be approved by the city council.
The city of Chicago is composed of 50 wards which average out to around 72 precincts of about 350 or more voters in each precinct. Many wards are former villages incorporated into the city as the city grew. .
A Chicago Alderman is in effect a mini mayor. They have input into who gets city services and now it’s how those services are being administered. But now seem to be running into who’s ward is it ?.
What’s not being looked at is how Chicago wards have been redistricted. Chicago has had neighborhoods divided to create “Hispanic”residential sections going to Hispanic aldermanic and congressional (Gutierez) candidates and blacks going to black candidates.
In many wards but not not all, the changes in demographics are the result of housing turnover in the Freddie and Fanny mortgage collapse. As stable integrated areas changed into being unstable because of constant dwelling turnover.That had the effect of breaking up a contiguous geographic continuity and community identity.
Because the wards affected which are really like small towns have had sections broken up into areas where if a problem arises in a given section of street which has one way traffic only. It may be two way a block down because it’s in a different ward. The same applies to all other city services including zoning and sanitation where garbage collection routes are organized by ward boundaries have resulted increased rodent (rats) complaints ,
Will the current crop of Alderman be the rubber stamp for rent control , increased property, petrol, soda, vehicle,cigarette, taxes along with green save the world restrictions ? Alas very likely not because of these remaps.
Would be interesting if some of those candidates in the April 2nd runoff would come up with campaign on THE GREAT SMOKE IN allowing smoking in taverns Using going against that prohibition as fighting socialist government over bearing reach on individual liberties.
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Prickwrinkle has an attack ad out, saying Lightfoot
A)Had Republican clients
B)”Overruled investigators” to “justify police shootings”
Trying to help Lightfoot win the GOP vote? LOL
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