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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Does almost EVERY city have a BLACK MAYOR and A BLACK FEMALE POLICE CHIEF??
Hey, New Orleans, you got what you voted for. Now you can deal with your criminal loving mayor.
Um.....there are ONLY TWO GENDERS!!
Not very inclusive of you...
Nope, it's the morning guy on another station!
Her appropriated European straightened hair is not doing her looks any favors.
Excellent link -- thanks. A salient quote:
We call this strategy—increasing the relative size of one’s political base through distortionary, wealth-reducing policies—the Curley effect. But it is hardly unique to Curley... politicians around the world...have pursued policies that encouraged emigration of their political enemies, raising poverty but gaining political advantage.
So thankful to have left NOLA and the Northshore in 1989 to pursue engineering work in Texas. My memories, videos, pictures, family, and long-time friends are how I want to remember it. Visited and drove a rental car around the city and outskirts after Katrina. Decided during that ride that I never wanted to return.
They call her “Latoya the destroya”
“For them there is no such thing as cause and effect.”
Sure there is. They cause it and then blame some one else for it’s effect.
Worst mayors, Chicago, NO, DC, Boston, etc...hmm I wonder what the connection is?
BTTT
It is a chocolate city with a chocolate string of mayors. A recipe for disaster all around.
We have a suburban city near me here in Texas that is majority “of color” and has nearly an entire “of color” city council. (Interestingly, they just elected a white female mayor this year.) The council is notoriously uncivilized in meetings and there have even been fist fights breaking out either before or after the meetings. The city is gang and crime ridden. The city is just over 5% Anglo white.
You can have a viable city that is all white or mixed with majority white residents and representation in local government. The converse is not true.
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