Posted on 06/27/2026 5:02:17 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Every big city in America where the population is declining, businesses are closing, public safety is failing, and national relevance is diminishing suffers from the same handful of leadership failures. Cities don’t become helpless has-beens due to budget shortfalls, racial tension, natural disasters, or any of the other common excuses cities like Los Angeles use to explain or justify their decline. Along with New York, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities currently spiraling down the drain, LA is going from bad to worse because of four mistakes its leaders have perpetuated.
These failures are both predictable and preventable. But history tells us that as mayor, Karen Bass will have a hard time implementing the simple changes required.
Here is why cities wither and die:
1. Failure to keep citizens safe -- If people don’t feel safe on their own streets, nothing else matters. Productive, law-abiding, taxpaying residents deserve protection from criminals, vagrants, and other undesirables. It’s the responsibility of the police and the judicial system to establish and preserve a safe environment. Failing cities prioritize the rights of criminals over those of their victims. This turns the whole public safety system on its head. Lax policing standards, cashless bail, soft-on-crime prosecutors, and continued financial investment in policies that have failed to solve homelessness, addiction, and street crime all lead to trouble. Where the government turns a blind eye to criminal behavior, hard-working taxpayers who generate jobs and revenue leave for safer pastures, to be replaced by hordes of the unemployed who contribute nothing. Certainly, there are mentally and physically needy people in any city who must be helped. Letting them shoot up in a tent under the freeway is not helping them.
Angelenos could take a cue from the former mayor of Coronado, California, Richard Bailey. In his city, homeless
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With the homeless and criminals registered to vote, they are the voter base for Karen Bass. She sees them as the victims of society and the working people and non-criminals are the oppressors in her marxist world view. This turns society upside down.
and they are NOT mistakes.
She is a Leftist. That is the relevant history.
She won’t “Save” LA.
She doesn’t have the IQ to save anything
If the residents of LA continue to vote these clowns into office, should we even care what happens to LA? Like they say: If you repeat the same experiment, you get the same result. Perhaps LA should throw the current politicians out of office and start over.
Karen bass saving LA is like asking lions to save a dwindling heard of wildebees[the proper Afrikaans spelling of the word which is an Afrikaans word].
What an awkward writing style.
This article is difficult to read.
At all.
The bums cannot be voted out of office because those bums and their handlers control the vote count.
What on earth makes you think they actually voted for this?
“Even a blind squirrel finds some nuts.” But, Bass, being commie trash, can do nothing but destroy — that is her assigned mission.
What someone thinks she “can” do is just misdirection. Kinda like a tabletop magician tricking your eye over thar while picking your pocket.
Los Angeles is in a doom loop - which will be exacerbated by either Bass or Raman, doesn’t matter which, they’re equally incompetent.
Obvious vote fraud knocked out Spencer Pratt, he had to be eliminated so the doom loop could continue.
You will never convince me that Raman, who came in 3rd in her own district, garnered 40% of the votes from other districts AFTER election day.
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