Posted on 05/22/2025 1:06:00 PM PDT by texas booster
In April, there were 9 Republican mayors in America’s 50 biggest cities. In May, that number fell to 8.
Democrats are celebrating Omaha’s mayoral election win as proof that Republicans are out of step with America, when it’s really evidence how the nation’s cities have fallen out of step with America. There was a time when America’s cities were symbols of progress, but they have long since become sinkholes of decline, clinging to a handful of industries that employ a tiny fraction of their population as evidence of their relevance.
When Americans think of big cities, they think of tall buildings and social problems.
The Democratic Party’s stranglehold on major cities isn’t evidence of hope, but of despair. It’s not a triumph for democracy, but a sign that democracy no longer operates in major cities where elections are determined by networks of taxpayer-funded community groups, unions and other organizations that act as voter turnout operations for the Democrats in exchange for power and money.
Buttigieg built his ‘Mayor Pete’ brand on winning 80% of the vote in South Bend. But that 80% was 8,515 votes in a city of over 100,000. Democrats have taken control of election systems in major cities, but just because the media builds cults of personalities around them doesn’t mean that they’re winning the hearts and minds of the people.
Why are so few people turning out to vote? It’s not just Republicans boycotting a rigged process, but an apolitical majority that believe the system is crooked and sees no reason to take part in it. Republican mayors may be disappearing from major cities, but voters are disappearing even faster.
In a city of 2.6 million, around 600,000 voted. And considering Chicago’s history of undead electioneering, who is to say how many of the 600,000 were alive.
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"Social problems"? My stars and garters! That is so precious and quaint.
I have another name for them.
Teens?
And the dem run cities are doing just awesome. Right?
Or, good people simply do not want to serve as big city mayors. So you get the choice between The Turd Sandwich and The Giant Douche.
Liberal traitors and the toadies who vote for them in exchange for welfare...
AI generated:
“ As of the 2020 census, the total population of America’s 50 largest cities was approximately 64.5 million, accounting for about 19.47% of the nation’s total population. This figure reflects the combined populations of these cities as estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau.”
Sorry Victor Hanson and other national review alum
DEMOGRAPHICS IS INDEED DESTINY
The ones with enough $$$ whites function like Nashville
My hometown of Jackson Mississippi with 85% black and a murder rate honestly around 150/100,000 not so much
Someone once postulated (and that same someone has now gone into hiding because his life and the life of his family were threatened because of this stance) that if you wall off all the major cities of the country, and not allow any of the residents there in to vote, that every election would be won by republicans. But anymore the pubs are just as bad, if not worse, then their democrat counterparts.
So where does all that leave us? This country is royally screwed unless something drastically changes the minds and hearts of the country's population, and for the good. Otherwise the USA will disappear like all other large empires of the past.
When Americans think of big cities, they think of tall buildings and social problems. This American thinks of high crime, high taxes, high cost of living, high homelessness, low upkeep, low education scores, crumbling infrastructure, shall I go on?
Why does the GOP fight back? Do an article on economic growth in the top 50 cities. Do another on property tax rates in the top 50. Yet another on the unemployment rate in the top 50 and rank all by Democrat and Republican. Do an article on population growth for the past 10 years in the top 50 cities. There’s got to be a way to show that the Democrat controlled cities are in a death spiral in many ways.
Beth Weldon, mayor of the Largest city in the US, is non-partisan and white:
https://ballotpedia.org/Beth_Weldon
I hear ya.
I wish large American cities were classified as “City States” and not allowed to participate in any federal election. Or state elections. No voting power at all for the Very Rich as well as the Very Poor who live in the cities. Screw those guys. They are all just “working the system” in one way or another.
Actually, that’s a good thing. Dissatisfaction with reductions in SNAP, while funded at the state and federal level, will show itself at the CITY level. Local news will eat it up. Anytime news is slow they can send out a crew to get ‘impressions/complaints’ to use for fill-in.
NYC now has RCV.
If Gotham would vote for this crap, then why does Deep State have to steal their elections, hmmmm?
And check out LA...
“...The contest was a virtual dead heat on Election Night. Caruso pulled slightly ahead last Thursday, but since then Bass gained a steady lead...”
Sound familiar?
Voted for it?
Maybe.
But we’ll never know without an audit, will we...
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