Posted on 05/25/2021 2:54:24 AM PDT by Kaslin
This headline in the New York Times tells you everything you need to know about the progressive mindset, “A Year After George Floyd: Pressure to Add Police Amid Rising Crime.” Who didn’t know that demonizing police, cutting their funding, making it as clear as day that a city’s political leaders not only won’t defend them, but will actively throw them to the mob without any due process considerations might lead to problems for a city? Turns out pretty much every left-wing activist in the country. Worse, most of them still don’t care.
Crime is up, especially violent crime, in Democrat-run cities where the “defund police” movement found a receptive audience in government. Now, the Times reports, “The surge is prompting cities whose leaders embraced the values of the movement last year to reassess how far they are willing to go to reimagine public safety and divert money away from the police and toward social services.”
It’s hard to care, honestly. I grew up in Detroit, once the economic hub of the country destroyed through generational control by Democrats. John Conyers represented the city in Congress for 52 years, over which time his district deteriorated to the point that sections of it resemble a third world country. That didn’t happen overnight.
The thing about Detroit is the shell of what once was is still there. You can see the building, empty, architecture today’s craftsmen could not replicate at a price anyone could afford, towering over once beautiful neighborhoods that now resemble abandoned farmland. It’s depressing to see.
So why did the residents of Detroit give the party that orchestrated their demise unbroken power since 1962? Same reasons Chicago, Baltimore, St. Louis, etc., etc., have done it – they’ve been conditioned to think the alternative is somehow worse. How electing Republicans could’ve been worse for these cities is never explained, and defies rational thought. If Republicans wanted to destroy a city it’s unclear what they would do differently from what Democrats did under the guise of “improving” them.
It doesn’t matter, because leftist activists simply do not care. No amount of death, destruction, or economic depression matters. Los Angeles based liberal activist Helen Jones told the Times, “I don’t care how bad it gets — no one wants more cops. We don’t need tougher police, we need more alternatives to help people thrive.”
But the government can’t “help people thrive.” It never has, and never will. All the government should do is keep itself out of people’s way so they can make what they will with their lives while protecting their physical being and property in the process.
As cities like LA begin re-funding police, the Times is concerned. “It is a trend mirrored across the country,” their story goes, “where crime is skyrocketing in many big cities, putting liberal leaders under pressure to balance the demands of activists against the concerns of some residents about rising violence.”
This is part of the problem, the part the political class doesn’t have the underwear content to truly tackle – the activist class. They know how to chant, they know how to emotionally manipulate a swath of the public, but they have no concern about the consequences of their actions.
No amount of dead bodies bothers left-wing activists, they simply don’t care. And why would they care about generational economic depression when their objective is to destroy capitalism? Who cares if people can’t swim if you’re trying to blow up the pool?
The people elected in these areas change, oftentimes because they go to jail or die after years in office, so it’s not like there isn’t churn in leadership. A few years ago, when I was living in Baltimore, the new Mayor, who only became Mayor after the old Mayor was convicted of fraud, decided not to seek reelection. Half the City Council decided to give the big chair a shot. That freed up half the government for new blood.
While those seats were filled with new bodies, all those new bodies held the same bad progressive ideas. It doesn’t matter what the person in power looks like or does, it matters what they think. Race, gender, sexual orientation and all the other unimportant features of human beings Democrats obsess over don’t matter when the mindset is the same.
The joke definition of insanity is doing something over and over expecting a different result. Maybe it’s not a joke. Or maybe Democrat voters are the joke. The problem is the joke is on all of us. And if we don’t get people to realize how unfunny it is, even though it may not have impacted us yet, it will.
Defunding the police won’t spread, left-wing activists don’t have that kind of sway outside of these pockets. But violence will spread, economic depression will spread. Everyone can see that coming, but some people just don’t care.
To hell with the inner cities. Let em kill each other.
But even on Staten Island, crime has gotten more brazen with bank robberies like it’s the 1800s wild west.
We are still very safe here compared to 90 percent of the areas out there, but how can you NOT be hit by crime in a place like NYC when there is no jail before trail anymore..or at least Much Less folks in jail before trial.
Anyway, I keep a means of defense. This being NYC-USSR, I won’t say what defenses I have.
But my motto is “better judged by 12 than carried by 6”
I’ve got a lot to say but have to go to work. Later
It’s hard to care, honestly. I grew up in Detroit, once the economic hub of the country destroyed through generational control by Democrats.
That is BS. Globalism and "free trade" killed Detroit. The Democrat politicians were the secondary infection.
The globalism and free trade myths were propagated by liberal Democrat Socialists and RINOs at a national level. It is all part of the same command-and-control regime that has displaced the once freely enjoyed rights that were inscribed in the Declaration of Independence and granted by the Creator. Give up on God, give up on the rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
And the progressive elites of this country have given up on God a long time ago.
By the time “globalism” decimated many U.S. industries, Detroit was already a dump.
And the biggest crime in the inner cities last year was election theft.
Fraud and crime are rampant.
Just watch videos about people who “brake check”
cars and then claim they were rear-ended.
One video had a woman at a stop light on a Ducati. She gets off, rolls the bike into the front of the car behind her, then falls down, pretending to have an injury.
All these people were caught thanks to the drivers having dash cams and protecting themselves.
But imagine how often they get away with it.
It is out of control and getting worse.
BS. Detroit could have survived economically if Free Traitors like you hadn’t sold the out the auto industry. So all of you globalists can FOAD...
In other words “learn to code”....
Now that the inner cities can’t get anymore despair,the commies are working on the burbs and rural parts of the country.
Detroit didn't lose its auto manufacturing jobs to "globalism." First it lost those jobs to other places in Michigan. Then it lost those jobs to places like Georgia, Alabama and South Carolina.
Oh shut up. Think where Detroit would be if traitors like you hadn’t sold it out? I want robust job growth no dead cities with decaying factories. I hope you get yours one day...
“By the time “globalism” decimated many U.S. industries, Detroit was already a dump.”
He’s our resident union defender. I grew up watching the unions, who HATE America destroy factory after factory, company after company. For the life of me, I can’t see why anyone would defend them on FR.
There is none so blind as he who will not see.
Those cities, and Memphis, Birmingham, Jackson, Camden, Rochester and all the rest are not ruined because they are governed by Democrats.
Blacks vote for blacks, which is natural and normal, as is the wish to be ruled by your own.
If the blacks in charge of these awful places were Republicans they would be identical.
The voters are not "conditioned" to think the alternative is worse, it IS worse because the alternative is white.
Everyone decent left because of Black crime/culture.
We’ve not bought foreign cars because they were cheaper; but BETTER!
No, it's quite rational. And it will happen wherever the voting majority are not property owners, which is why so many states in the beginning set a property requirement for voting.
Why should a welfare recipient care about the city he currently squats in? Like a locust, when he exhausts the resources of where he is, he'll just move elsewhere and start the process over.
That was no reason to sell out the US auto industry. We need a tariff on all imports now before the USA completely de-industrializes. I have no problem with foreign nameplates made in America. I own a Toyota that was built in Wisconsin and it's a great car.
If the VIN starts with a '1' then it was built in the USA.
Why should they vote GOP? They are the ones that out sourced all of the manufacturing jobs overseas. What is the GOP solution “learn to code” or open a nail salon? THAT IS NOT GOING TO FIX ANYTHING.
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