Posted on 05/28/2015 7:54:38 AM PDT by Ray76
[] this is part two of a three part trifecta on the utter catastrophe that has befallen what was once America's jewel in her industrial crown, namely her inner-cities. In part one, we looked at the locust-like plague that drugs, especially crack cocaine, has inflicted on America's cities. Today, we'll look at the political perfect storm of Democratic policies that have not only allowed this to happen, but in fact, fostered it. And in part three, we will struggle to find some solutions to this multi-generational mess.
I think the short form is that America's cities were once home to a labor force driven by the Industrial Revolution. We had about a century where people fled the agricultural first-wave world of farms and plantations for the second-wave industrial world of the factories. But now that those jobs have left, the failing educational system, plus government hand-outs, have taken away both the tools and the motivation for people to join the third-wave information and service-age economies that we find ourselves living in today.
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That’s a rhetorical question, right?
Yes. Next question?
For the answer to that, you have to divide the left into the “evil” and the “duped”.
The duped think they actually intended to help people. The evil know that destroying the culture gives them more power.
That is a fair summation. I personally believe that Democrat policy is mostly guided by dupes with a fairly large plurality of evil people in the mix.
Johnson started the "War on Poverty" and the "Great Society" as a cynical ploy to steal newly enfranchised (thanks to the Republican driven "Civil rights act of 1964) Black voters from Republicans.
As a political strategy for empowering Democrats it was a masterstroke. It was also a national suicide pill that is currently destroying the Country.
Most of our debt and most of our worst policies is the consequence of this "vote farming" scheme which Johnson successfully implemented.
Present day Democrats buy slaves using taxpayer money.
Yes, it's kind of a chicken/egg dilemma. If there is a problem, there will be someone who tries to exploit it. In doing so, the D's have little incentive to try to improve the situation as the urbanites are loyal Democratic voters.
Go figure.
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