To Reclaim Cities, Republicans Must Re-Engage Them

Townhall.com ^ | July 31, 2020 | Gabriella Hoffman

[Flatus I. Maximus]

Reclaim the big cities? Too late. Can’t be done. They’re colonies of an alien culture now.

I say we blow the bridges and go full “Escape from New York” on ‘em.

[Bonemaker]

I think Legend is more after felons in possession of firearms and possibly RICO stuff in the big dem shitholes. Throw in some USMS fugitive arrest teams.

[Reeses]

Easy solution to save the cities: ban all elevators. Elevators aren’t green at all, stairs are. Elevators are communal virus and bacteria distribution rooms.

[comebacknewt]

Agree.

I would much rather we completely write off the big cities. Let them become city / states, their own entities.

Then, let the rest of the country be governed by sane people with some sense of moral honor.

[T.B. Yoits]

Cities are an outdated idea. They need to be broken up.

Cities fail on multiple levels and the gap only gets wider. They haven't kept up with infrastructure changes for over a century. Cities fail at integrating even older technologies such as passenger and freight rail, automobiles, and aviation.

-Seaports are too small for the previous generation of ships, much less the current one
-Airports are too small for their locations
-Street and highway lanes are too narrow
-Street and highway distances are too tight for safe visibility as well as vehicle turns
-Bridges are too low
-Tunnel lane heights and widths are substandard
-There isn't room for enough roadway lanes to handle the traffic volume
-Sidewalks are too narrow
-Vertical buildings are too restrictive for modern business and industry processes (have always been that way)

Many of these older cities were built up near waterways and are now limited by them.

[Jim Noble]

In 2000, Republican mayors dominated half of the nation’s dozen largest cities. Today, Republican mayors only oversee 13 of the 50 largest U.S. cities

I mean, doesn't ANYONE go to school anymore?

Apples and oranges.

6/12 compared to 13/50????

Come on!

How many of the 50 had Republican mayors in 2000. And which are the six cities "dominated" by Republican mayors in 2000?

This article is a pile of crap.

[Impy]

Cities are full of non-whites and lib whites. AKA the democrat base aka brainwashed idiots. Look at Portland, the Mayoral Election is between the idiot lib Mayor and a literal communist. Larry Lightfoot in Chicago? On paper at least she was less bad than her opponent.

Decent people flee the cities every day (so do no-decent people who infect the suburbs, a virus much worse than Kung Flu)

I’m not sure winning them over is possible. Can we win over ISIS supporters?

[Impy]

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[campaignPete R-CT]

Yea, and there’s an oversupply of homes in the cities ... when you try to sell, there’s a glut of other houses on the market and not enuf buyers