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Posted on 10/25/2025 4:32:08 AM PDT by MtnClimber
In those neighborhoods, where civil society breaks down, giving way to anarchy and Haitian-style barbarism, civilization is effectively suspended.
Across the United States, the trajectory of inner cities has been one of “inexorable decline” — a descent from centers of economic growth, cultural splendor, and communal solidarity into fragmented, dystopian environments marked by neglect and anarchy. Like mirror images of downtown Port-au-Prince, these urban landscapes, far from civic greatness, have become wastelands defined by abandoned structures, pervasive insecurity, and social disintegration (aggravated by the “homelessness crisis”).
The emblematic example of Detroit crystallizes the narrative of urban decline — a Democrat-run city, yesterday’s “Motown”, that is synonymous with town hall corruption, economic ruin, demographic shift, widespread arson, and the withdrawal of state and municipal authorities. Rather than a localized phenomenon, such decline is a symptom of a broader “civilizational regression” whose consequences reverberate through the generations, threatening the very foundations of social order.
At the root of this decline lies the collapse of traditional industries. Without an active business community to generate prosperity, nobody will stay behind but demagogues and welfare dependents. Deindustrialization — collective redundancy precipitated by automation, globalization, and corporate restructuring — undermined the primary economic engines that provided stable employment, nurtured a middle-class constituency, and generated municipal revenues essential for public services. The economic downturn left entire neighborhoods in a state of social distrust, cultural confusion, and civilizational self-doubt.
Accompanying economic upheavals were demographic shifts. The phenomenon known as “suburban flight” saw predominantly white, middle-class populations abandon downtown areas for suburban enclaves. The depletion of the urban tax base through this demographic shift deprived cities of the fiscal capacity necessary to sustain essential public services — education, policing, sanitation — that constitute the minimal framework for social order and civic functionality. Economic extraction made inner cities vulnerable
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Urban blight is the playpen of the community organizer.
Devoultion
Racist commie mayor Coleman Young of Detroit told the whites to hit 8 mile rd. Detroit has improved a lot since the ‘67 riots. There are lots of good, hard-working individuals in Detroit.
Next on the list, NYC.
It’s a people problem, locations and circumstances are superfluous.
Rotten apples do ruin the whole bushel excepting NO thankyyou apples who left the basket are now elsewheres. Democrats foster this problem and now we makers are being blamed for not hanging around.?.?
Whites leave a place because of black behavior => White flight, you’re a racist.
Whites return to a place and improve it substantially => Gentrification, you’re a racist.
The only way to win is to tell them to buzz off and not care about being called a racist.
Yup. The progs would dismiss this piece as one long dog whistle.
That is so true.
EC
When everything is racist, nothing is racist. The race-whores have fouled their own bed. Where I come from we call it black-fatigue.
A fine, woeful litany of symptoms, making no real attempt at identifying causes.
The cause of industrial collapse is giving away virtually all our industry to China.
The political collapse is caused by 2 US Supreme Court cases where the Warren Court made up rules for state legislature apportionment, Reynolds v. Sims and Baker v. Carr, the “one man, one vote” rules.
Among many other sources. https://www.regentuniversitylawreview.com/pro-tempore/2025/1/7/one-man-one-vote-reynolds-v-sims-and-the-making-of-a-hyper-partisan-america
The Warren Court imagined reasons why it was “unconstitutional” for state legislatures to be apportioned like the the Constitution apportioned US House and Senate. Every state legislature must now be apportioned based on population, like the US House. No apportionment to represent geographical areas, like the US Senate, is allowed. Therefore, the biggest cities rule every state where they outnumber the rubes in small towns. Chicago rules Illinois despite vast downstate areas. NY City rules New York, despite vast upstate areas, etc.
Now we see citizens trying to fight this rule in Oregon and Northern California, etc, by seceding from those failed states and joining a more conservative one. Was there ever better evidence of the wisdom of the Founding Fathers in creating the Senate as they did?
What the Warren cases are doing is proving another Founder correct. John Adams: The Constitution was made for a moral and religious people and is unfit for any other. The blue cities have created an anti-moral, anti-religious society and are dragging everyone else down.
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