“There is another reason why Detroit and every other urban center in this country has become a third world cesspit. But mentioning it is verboten. The occasional aberration of a Republican mayor is simply a temporary band aid over large and suppurating wound.”
Of course you’re right.
Time and time and time again, here on FR we see the conservative mantra that “liberalism has destroyed the cities”.
I suggest anyone who actually believes this to go to the cities of Bennington and Burlington, Vermont. Both are full of people who are EXTREMELY liberal in attitudes, and who elect public officials who are, as well. These folks are literally “off-the-wall” liberals.
Yet both Bennington and Burlington are as safe or safer than the locales where most reading this post reside right now.
If you visit those places, there is something which will become immediately obvious to you, vis-a-vis cities like Detroit, Balitimore, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Chicago.
Can you ascertain what it is?
It’s the black undertow. We MUST begin to speak the truth about it. I don’t think anyone as of yet truly realizes the magnatude of this problem. In my opinion, it ranks in the top three major problems this country is going to have to deal with, sooner or later. The Supreme Court is working on an affirmative action(AA) case now. It would be a great start to get rid of that, (AA) then start moving right on down the line.