Posted on 01/02/2020 7:27:21 AM PST by Kaslin
As a practical matter I don’t see how the Right re-establishes any significant influence in these places.
Nope...not until the big cities get tbeir collective minds right.
WARNING!!!! I just read a full pant-load of crap. Save your time.
It’s a safety issue. Will you stay where you and your family are in danger from ferals?
If you want the cities to look like they did in the 1950s, you will need .gov to have the same role it had in the 1950s.
Life is simple when you know the rules.
I am understand the need to fix the cities... but when the denizens thereof won’t elect you under any circumstances, what is the next step?
If you are trying to save a drowning man and he won’t do as you direct him to, you have to let him drown, else there are two dead instead of one. Same goes for the cities.
Einstein’s maxim comes into play as well
A huge problem in many major cities is that the city government becomes an end unto itself. City workers often are the largest group of middle class voters, so politicians must pander to them to gain their support for campaigns and elections. Once government exists primarily to serve itself, you're screwed.
All the problems described by the author pale in comparison to the over-promising of pensions, and the long-term insolvency of many of those cities. It is politically impossible to engage in pension reform, so services will get worse even while taxes increase, just to pay for the pensions and not anger city employees.
It's a mess Democrats created, and they're going to have to be the ones to fix it.
There are barren places all over this planet where once flourished great cities. Carthage, Detroit,...
Conservatives have great issues that can actually HELP people. We can’t blame urbanites for voting wrong if we run away and don’t persistently raise our issues in terms that the voters can understand.
The problem with “Productive Flight” (or what some call ‘White Flight’), is that eventually you run out of places to flee to.
Not a role of federal government.
Your analysis pretty much nails it. The Mayor of Pittsburgh, a city of 330,000, is basically chosen by 20,000 public employee union members voting in the Democrat Primary (GOP does not even bother to field a candidate 9 times out of 10). Hence his loyalty is to a small cadre of union members and not to the population as a whole.
The one counterexample I can think of is Detroit, where bankruptcy got them off the hook for a lot of these pension costs. This freed-up money for them to do things like turn the streetlights back on and demolish abandoned buildings. So much of Detroit has gone back to green space that perhaps one day conservative homesteaders could establish themselves there.
Well put.
Encouraging marriage and discouraging out of wedlock births would help many inner cities.
I would guess that the bulk of he Right live in suburbs, or outskirts of the cities rather than in the heart of cities anyhow?
It will lead to civil war which the cities will lose, but the cost will be horrific.
“Conservatives should respect urban homes and seek policies that will assist residents in forming and maintaining stable families and communities.”
Idiot! Why should we do it when the Rats fail to do it.
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