Example:
Population of Detroit before :1.85 million
Population of Detroit today :680,000
You can't make that massive loss up.
From their viewpoint, it's actually better if they are dead.
They get to pontificate at the funeral, and use their deaths as a campaign issue.
It frees up some more welfare money to buy votes from the living, and to embezzle through kickbacks and "campaign contributions" from the companies providing services to da po' folk.
And they will ALWAYS vote democrat in the future!
What's not to like if you're a democrat Mayor or Senator?
Their loved ones? Who cares? (Cue the clip of Clinton yucking it up at the Wellstone funeral, then wiping his eyes the instant he sees the camera...)
You can't make that massive loss up.
It matters not to the mayor or city council members whether the got 85% of 1.85 million or 85% of 680 thousand. They're still in charge.
A million big city democrat voters move to the suburbs?
That matters not the the democrat governor and legislators, that merely means more districts flip democrat, insuring more votes for democrats and more democrats elected state -wide.
Born and raised democrats getting taxed out of California and New York?
More democrats elected in other states overwhelmed by the locusts...