This is a super DUH. We have cities that haven’t recovered from the 1968 riots.
Now add giving the rioters free reign and defunding the police.
The cities will not recover for 50 years. Minimum.
“This is a super DUH. We have cities that haven’t recovered from the 1968 riots.”
Absoutely true. The MLK riots changed Chicago permanently and the effects can be seen today. IMO, the next “giant sucking sound” you will hear will be people and businesses getting the heck out of even the “good” or newly gentrified areas. 20 years from now, The film “Escape From New York” will seem ingeniously prophetic-unless there is an amazing turn around.
I was in graduate school in Berkeley in the late Seventies-Early Eighties. There were still burned out buildings from the late sixties riots, and a lot of buildings still had bricked up windows, including Bank of America which had been one focus of attack during the riots. One difference back then was the police shot the rioters, mainly with shotguns. We need to bring that back.
Cities will not recover, period.
Between internet shopping, telecommuting, and high city taxes, businesses which leave the cities won’t have a reason to return.
At this point, the only way for cities to be attractive to the middle class, would be if they got rid of the toxic underclass entirely, and no Democrat politician will allow that .