“Some really heartbreaking cases. Kids out playing. Innocent people just going about their lives. One man, married 18 years to the mother of his children, employed, who caught a stray bullet as he was sitting at his kitchen table paying bills. I feel for the good people who have to live with this every day just outside their homes. As far as I can tell, there is nothing that can be done about it. Too many are have no concept of civilized behavior. As Stalin said, “the death of one man is a tragedy; the death of millions is a statistic.” The names and faces of this week’s victims will be forgotten by all but their families and friends by the time next week’s statistics are out, if they are not forgotten already.”
I’m sure someone said words similar to yours about New York City before Giuliani became Mayor. Amazingly, he changed the stats to basically next to zero crimes - now how is that possible?
Hint: Chicago has been under Democrat control for God only knows how many years.
Hint 2: Giuliani is not a Democrat
I wish I could be that hopeful. The last Republican mayor of Chicago was Big Bill Thompson, who left office in 1931 and was a piece of work by anyone’s standards. Chicago is essentially a one-party state. The Daley’s did a lot to make that happen. There is nothing that I can see that in any way resembles a conservative movement (least of all in the Republican Party), but I actually know a lot of people who could be considered socially conservative. They just don’t have anyone to vote for. Rahm had a fairly serious challenge last time, but it was from the Left. Rahm wound up sounding like the sensible one. I know that there was a movement by some black leaders to support Republican Bruce Rauner for governor. One of the leaders was a black minister and former state senator, James Meeks. So who knows — maybe any hope for Chicago might just come from working, law-abiding, church-going blacks, if they could somehow organize. (I’m just throwing stuff off the top of my head, now!) And if they got together with working, law-abiding, church-going Latinos and Whites, they might just have something. But they all have to escape the plantation first.