Posted on 08/24/2022 5:46:17 AM PDT by LSUfan
New Orleans’ LaToya Cantrell is running away with the competition.
irst, for those of you who haven’t read all of the previous columns in this space, a definition. What is Weaponized Governmental Failure?
Simply put, it’s the process by which urban socialist Democrats intentionally muck up the basic tasks of municipal governance and create such soul-crushing environments that middle-class taxpayers and voters decamp for the suburbs, thus leaving an electorate incapable of throwing off the political machine.
My theory is that Weaponized Governmental Failure, or WGF for short, was arrived upon serendipitously. At some point in the 1990s, Democrats noticed that some of their worst mayors — like Washington, D.C.’s Marion Barry — were simply unbeatable despite dismal performances.
And, at that point, it became recognizable to urban socialist Democrats that if you governed badly enough, if you refused to fill potholes or police the streets or solve traffic problems or provide functional public education, the middle-class voters who would consider voting Republican and therefore could put your political power at threat would just … leave.
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Michelle Wu is a piece of work. One of the local talk show hosts, in his best three stooges voice, calls her Michelle Wuwuwuwuwu.
What it is is lazy low IQ entitlement hacks who vote for the gmint give aways.
It’s a match made in hell.
This is the best explanation I have read. It makes sense.
The answer, at the state level, is to refuse to subsidize city welfare systems, so that they HAVE TO attract taxpayers.
Pelican State ping.
Atlanta mayor deserves consideration
New Orleans is a failed city. Period.
Man is she fugly!
The Democrat party is the clown party. These clowns can be stupid or evil or both.
Some of the evil ones can be very clever and smart.
People look into their toilets, and vote for what they see. Alas, Mayor Latoya!
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Curley Effect
James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and incendiary rhetoric to encourage richer citizens to emigrate from Boston, thereby shaping the electorate in his favor.
If they were capable of learning from their past mistakes they’d quit doing drugs, robbing local stores, and having babies out of wedlock starting in their teens.
Hell hath no fury like an overweight black female civil servant.
Yes. Their angry/IQ ratio is off the charts.
Seems to be a common theme with these mayors. Hmmmm…
That sounds like Howie.
It should be obvious why this is such a recipe for dysfunction and failure. New York City, for example, is a sh!t-hole today for two basic reasons: (1) the NYPD precinct captain who commutes from Long Island and the Wall Street banker who commutes from Westchester don’t vote in NYC municipal elections, and (2) the third-generation welfare recipient living in a city housing project does.
It’s really that simple.
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