>It’s all pretty clear that the euphoria that the Left is getting about the high gas prices making people move back to where crime and criminal municipal politics is rampant is part of a contrived strategy.<
One thing this “cram the suburbanites back in the city” plan does is retrieve the urbanites’ lost taxbase come hades or high water.
I didn’t read all the comments, but the Liberals may want to think twice about herding suburubanites back to the central cities. If you look at “red state blue state” analyses at the county, municipality, and precinct level, you will see that the “red states” are closer than they may think. Even the outer precincts of larger cities tend to be more Conservative, and often just outside a central city, you are in “red state” territory. Putting suburbanites back in cities would dilute the Liberal control of the cities, a stronghold for decades. As these meddling suburbanites moved back in, they would no doubt become involved in precinct level politics, perhaps even preventing vote fraud and late reporting so common there. And to Liberals, that loss of control would be worse than wasting oil and gasoline.