The first African-American female mayor in Chicago history will be Lori Lightfoot

CNN ^ | Mar. 2, 2019

[gogeo]

Turnout was light? Who can figure?

It appears there was a choice for everyone. You could vote for a black, female commie, or...

[dfwgator]

Normal voters saw no one to vote for.

Because normal people don't run for office.

[Rennes Templar]

“Because normal people don’t run for office.”

That’s a problem.

[nathanbedford]

Tax cuts and cheap labor are not going to win hearts and minds of a frightened generation who have been cheated out of their birthright.

You are absolutely right. The politician who votes tax cuts and facilitates cheap labor by open borders and imprudent trade deals is not concerned about the lost birthright of a generation because they reckon the bankruptcy is a generation off into the future or, if not one whole generation away at least one election away.

As long as we allow voting, radical change is coming.

Right again. Radical change is as inexorably certain as death. When the voters might ultimately bring that change down upon themselves will almost certainly be in the wake of real social disintegration or at least a very painful financial episode. We have exchanged thoughts, or least I have visited my thoughts upon you, concerning the artificial world in which we currently exist, a world of scarcity which falsely appears to us to be a world of abundance because of the peculiar position of the United States as a superpower, the world's largest economy, the world's reserve currency, culminating in an ability to borrow almost into infinity without immediate symptoms of inflation because of the very cheap labor coming from globalization and immigration and abundant cheap goods coming from ultimately lethal trade practices.

I think the problem is deeper than politicians validating open borders and free trade, in fact, I no longer think it is productive to blame politicians for doing what politicians do any more than it is sensible to blame scorpions for behaving like scorpions. Why? Because I believe that the people ultimately get what they want and, biblically, what they deserve. A politician who does not pander to the short term clamors of the electorate no matter how foolhardy the consequences, will soon be out of business. The business of politicians is to be elected.

Whom then do we blame? The electorate? Are they to blame for not recognizing the bubble? Are they the blame for listening to the Pied Piper's of globalization, crony capitalism, social welfarism? Are they morally responsible for failing to internalize that the music cannot play on? Margaret Thatcher's axiom, socialism is great until you run out of other people's money, does not seem to apply to our immediate environment because so long as we can borrow 1 trillion dollars a year there is no running out of money. Therefore, the politicians find themselves in a race to the bottom, if they do not pander to the short term desires of an electorate conditioned to live in this bubble, they are voted out of business in favor of the politician who will sell favors like the Mayflower Mdm.

After all, the electorate is in a race to the bottom as well. If a manager of a capitalist enterprise does not go offshore, if he does not hire illegal immigrants, if he does not lobby the government to commit crony capitalism, he too will be out of business. Is the dead-end hamburger flipper to blame for turning to politics as the other door to an economic future slammed in his face?

Oh, the reckoning will surely come. The waves of globalization, immigration, automation, and trillion dollar deficits cannot go on so they will not go on.

How do we get ourselves into this fix? The founders understood human nature and did everything within their power and within the considerable genius of their foresight to create structural barriers to human nature. Checks and balances and separation of powers, all dependent upon the rule of law have been eroded over time until we reached the nadir in this mayoral race in Chicago where there is no two-party contest, therefore, there is no separation of powers. We have a one-party state and that inevitably leads to the kind of corruption that brought down the Soviet Union.

So I do not think it was one particular mistake on one particular issue that has brought us to this perilous state. Rather I think it is the erosion of the moral values upon which our founders were also relying that over time have come adrift from the Constitution and its checks and balances which otherwise might have saved us from ourselves.

This implies the decline of our epistemology, our theology, our understanding of what is good and decent and proper. I have often pointed to The Frankfurt School as an obvious turning point in the history of modern thought with profound political and social implications. Indeed, the idea of The Frankfurt School was to affect politics by changing the social culture. Clearly, it has succeeded to a point that would satisfy even the likes of George Soros.

In the years on these threads that I have been writing in support of than Article V approach to restoring the Constitution by the means provided in the Constitution to become an instrument in keeping with the Founder's understanding, I have always conditioned my hope on the understanding that no amendment of any consequence was possible absent some sort of great dislocation. Although you and I differ on the wisdom of an Article V approach, we both believe that a reckoning is coming.

With the reckoning must come an agonizing reappraisal, a come to Jesus moment on a national level. This must be a bottom-up not a top-down moral realignment. No one with even a limited glimpse of history can be confident of that outcome.

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

Well, yeah. The thing is they make it out to be some kind of landslide. Maybe a landslide on an anthill.

The real choice was in the primary — actually a few interesting, competent candidates ran then. But about 10% of the primary voters decided the next mayor would be one of two black female commies.

[Truth29]

Very interesting analysis. I wonder if the fuse of social disintegration and true upheaval could be lit in Chicago by busing in thousands of illegals from the current open border disaster and simply releasing them downtown? There has been considerable discussion about the catch and release now happening daily and where to release invaders who are receiving virtually no screening other than transportation to various cities. This could be the moment to show what happens when theCloward-Piven strategy wins.

[matt04]

Just give Them time, they will clean the lack of arrests because the city is so safe there are no more criminals to arrest.

[VanDeKoik]

Light in the foot, light in the loafers.

[dfwgator]

“Because normal people don’t run for office.” That’s a problem.

A problem deliberately created by the Left, to discourage normal people from opposing them. Why give up a good life in the private sector, to take the abuse the Left will heave on you and your family?

[Elsie]

Homosexuals have more positions of power than I realized.

I

Must

Resist!!

[Eleutheria5]

Which one of these two idiots was the Republican? Does it even matter?

[Eleutheria5]

They can become lesbo lovers, and take turns being mayor.

[Eleutheria5]

At this point what difference does it make. So long as they can stuff ballot boxes with dead people’s votes, it’s all good.

[Eleutheria5]

Is she kin to Gordon?

[KingofZion]

This is about as good as one can expect for Chicago. When I saw that Bobby Rush attacked Lightfoot that was all I needed to know. She is a former US attorney who will be tough on crime and perhaps will take a stab at dismantling the Chicago machine.

[Eleutheria5]

“Why give up a good life in the private sector, to take the abuse the Left will heave on you and your family?”

Because then they’ll heave abuse on you and your family and everyone else’s family, on a wholesale, bulk volume basis.

[dfwgator]

Because then they’ll heave abuse on you and your family and everyone else’s family, on a wholesale, bulk volume basis.

That's what it's all leading to. The problem with "White Flight" is that eventually you will run out of places to flee to.

[Eleutheria5]

“Is this a female version of David Dinkins? “

He preferred women, too. Does she also have a mustache and dress nattily?

[Empireoftheatom48]

She gets all the checks in the right boxes. To bad she’s not a tranny too?

[dfwgator]

She’s going to make Harold Washington look good in comparison.