America, one big decaying and dying giant brought to you by Democrats “progressive” politics. Starting to look like a dead carcass.
At one time Detroit was arguably, easily, the wealthiest city on the planet.
Another sad tale is Argentina. (Argent means “silver” in Spanish). It was the 2nd or 3rd wealthiest country on the planet almost within living memory. Beef exports, high standard of living. Stable government. Then the do-gooders and levelers showed up, apparently.
The takeaway is - It doesn’t take very long to wreck a city, or even a whole country.
But it takes a LONG time to recover. Decades, even centuries. If ever. This is why stupid leftist pie in the sky BS needs to be quashed.
Look at what even a single, stupid “progressive” policy like Prohibition alone did to the beer and tavern industry. It took maybe 80 years before small independent breweries sprang up again.