Thomas Sowell has addressed this in many of his works, but the root of the problem is that the people who enable this dysfunction are far removed from it, and do not have to deal directly with either the social or economic ramifications from their decisions and actions.
They should be forced to live in areas where their policies have resulted in these terrible conditions.
They should damn well be forced to suffer under them, directly, and for long periods of time.
I’ll be things would get fixed tout suit.
And this applies to all areas and situations in American life, not just the inner blue cities.
"the people who enable this dysfunction are far removed from it, and do not have to deal directly with either the social or economic ramifications from their decisions and actions"
National Bureau of Economic Research
https://www.nber.org/
“...the people who enable this dysfunction are far removed from it”
Yes. Victor D Hanson makes this point repeatedly. He always rails about the bicoastal elites living in their exclusive enclaves that never have to see or experience this societal collapse. That is certainly true of Congress.
But, at the city level, the mayors and city council members must experience and feel the carnage they wrought. Several big city mayors (including Wheeler in Portland) have had protesters show up at their houses. But nothing changes at the city level.