Cause of death was an overdose of Democrats.
Consider the list: Baltimore, east side of DC, Memphis, Detroit, downtown Birmingham, Chicago, Cleveland.
Hellholes need infusions of fresh demon blood - - illegals, criminals, and 'elites' are 'welcome'...
Such doom and gloom. All that’s needed to fix everything is more illiterate unskilled refugees familiar with IED making.
I have Lived and Watched the downfall of Southern California for the last 45 years. In not too many years I will retire and Move permanently to my Home in Arizona
The cause of death was the glowBULList Free Traitors™ ripped the industrial heart out the USA and gave to Asians, on a silver platter. Now cites are not economically viable and we blame the Democrats? Ludicrous.
As long as the politicians can rob Peter to give to Paul they will always have Paul’s vote. In today’s big cities there are more “Pauls” then “Peters”.
Perhaps the simplest solution is to restrict the right to vote to taxpayers (as our founding fathers did when they allowed only property owners to vote)
The movie Gran Torino. Except that had a happy ending.
Our civilization is in the beginnings of another huge transformation. The industrial revolution brought people from the farms, which where themselves disappearing, to the cities in search of work. The cities grew because there was a concentration of work and workers. Then, Democrats discovered that the concentration of work meant taxes and the concentration of workers meant voters who could be bought by making the work side of the equation pay even more for the labor. The work side began moving away from the cities. Worse, what it means to work is also in a transformation. It used to mean getting hot and sweaty moving things through a process that eventually produced a product. Now, it often means either answering questions, like a phone operations center for your product, or it means sitting at a desk punching keys where the product is something that didn’t exist fifty years ago, an app, say. Much of the more modern work doesn’t need to be in a city. Many software providers live dozens or hundreds of miles away from cities.
Now, cities could still be viable, but not when it costs outrageous amounts to be there and you have to jump through ridiculous hoops to remain. (I’m talking to you, San Francisco.) At some point, people move their work to someplace where they can either not be bothered by Democrats, say China, or they evolve their business into something that doesn’t need the infrastructure and amenities of a city. Democrats killed the Golden Goose.
If you're heart isn't broken enough over the decline of our cities, watch this short video on Dying Detroit.
Ever wondered what it was like for Romans living in Empire as it declined?
Well, here you go...
The one useful thing about these conglomerations of liberals is that it’ll be easy to cut off power/water/food when the civil war comes, and we can just wait on the periphery.
The death of personal responsibility, the excuse of victimhood to rob and pillage, and the corruption of politicians who use their offices to grant favors are some of the causes of the fall of cities and the collapse of countries. Morality is the foundation of an enduring democracy, a fact the Founders emphasized but that is rarely mentioned today. The result of this failure is chaos.
Heck, I was born on a street named “Steel”.
By 1967, the year horrible race riots broke out we had already “fled” as part of the “great white flight” to the Northwest suburbs. Detroit never regained consciousness after 1967 even though they propped up a marketing agenda called the “Renaissance” center and tried to attract scared people back to the inner city. It never really worked and then the blind, short term thinking Auto industry execs were blindsided by the Japanese in a sort of reverse Hiroshima.
Detroit at that time was led (should I say robbed?) by a Mayor named “Coleman (marbles in his mouth) Young. He pushed agendas that eventually gutted the city and led to it's absolute decay.
The only thing that reminds us today of that dead city are the Detroit Lions. All other sport teams have given some kind of positive spin on the city's demise and have had winning teams, but the consistent (since 1958) Lions have annually not gone to the Superbowl but to the proverbial Toilet Bowl.
Sad but someday the Ford family death grip on the team might be released to other owners and that may help revitalize a small corner of the once great and mighty Detroit industry.
Let me say that populist democrats, normally black, have caused these cities to die. Their schools were run by politicians who sold teacher slots for patronage. And they allowed police to sit in the stations and not patrol in any real force. The reality is that the black community does not like police until they get old and middle class. Gary, DC, New Orleans all fit this mold as well.
But Chicago was saved by Daleys. The Daleys seemed to keep Chicago out of the same problems that killed most of the big Midwest cities. Its true that crime in two large black neighborhoods has become routine. And the unions skim huge amounts for pensions and employees that don’t work.
But the Daleys importantly kept business in the city. They saved the downtown. They increased business and maintained neighborhoods that rich and upper middle class residents enjoy. And they created magnet schools that keep young families with smart kids in the city.
Richie Daley is the first to say that city unions are the cause of many of the cities largest problems. Or they are the barrier between the city and the solutions to these problems. For instance, when the city wants to add more police. The union fights to keep those police out of the harmful neighborhoods. And they keep cops on the payroll that do not leave the station. The teachers union fights to stop schools from increasing school hours. And they fight to keep bad teachers in their jobs.
Other cities increased the taxes on the rich and businesses, causing both to leave in droves. In some cities like Detroit they have also limited or killed trains that allow employees from the entire metropolis to commute to downtown. Chicago has a great train and bus system that allows employees from any place within the metro area to be in downtown Chicago cheaply and quickly.
Who knows how Chicago will handle its debt. That might kill the city. And who knows when the black community will finally decide to do something about the crime. But crime seems to stay in certain neighborhoods that other people just avoid. Which allows Chicago, especially on the north side to be one of the most livable cities in the country.
This is why Conservatives, and now recently Liberals, are becoming "Preppers"
Situational Awareness is a learned skill, but it needs to be acted upon, not just a thought
This guy is about my age. I have seen similar things closer to DC.
Demographics must never be mentioned.
How about the rest of us pump billions into them as life support?