Agreed!! I lived in Detroit for 2 years (81-83) and it was already going down. AND of course the people that lived there continued to elect the same criminals into office. It starts on the local level and then spreads to the national elections. Same people continue to drink the koolaid. It was at that time when I moved to a large city (Detroit) that I left the democratic party and switched to repub. Now unfortunately we have a uniparty.
NJ is heading down the same path as Detroit, in the sense that the best and brightest are leaving so voting becomes lopsidedly leftist.
Both are prime indications of why the Founding Fathers restricted voting to taxpayers; they foresaw this over 225 years ago.
Offshoring and globalism killed Detroit. The DemonRat mayors that followed were a secondary infection.
I equate this Koolaid drinking to gambling.
Addicted gamblers always lose, and big time. Yet the allure of winning big so they can kick back and do nothing the rest of their lives is overwhelming. So they continue on, with their false hopes being the cause of future losses. Eventually they are ruined.
With envy they look at successful people. This could even be the next door trucker pulling in well over 100 grand a year. And the Trucker has all the toys and vacations the gamble wants but cannot have.
Both the lefty voter and the gambler have something in common, they are hate filled and never happy.