Posted on 07/31/2021 9:58:45 AM PDT by re_tail20
Every Monday in the city of anarchy, on what Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot once called “Accountability Mondays” without irony, the media tallies the number of the weekend murdered dead and the wounded.
And the Democrat politicians point fingers at each other.
More than 70 people were shot this past weekend, with 12 dead. Over the July 4 weekend, more than 100 people were shot, among them more than a dozen children, and 19 were killed. And so on, weekend after weekend, weekday after weekday.
Violence, the fear of violence and its after-effects are the top issues in Chicago.
More than 2,000 people have been shot this year, more than a 60 percent increase compared to 2019. The crime website heyjackass.com, puts the number at 2,064 shot and wounded so far, reporting that 428 have been shot and killed.
“Another bloody weekend,” tweeted my friend Tom Bevan, co-founder of Real Clear Politics “Calling the city Chiraq is now an insult to Iraq.”
He did provide the headline to this column. But let’s understand why it is an insult to Iraq. Chicago’s crime statistics, as bad as they are, don’t tell the full story. There were 970 murders in 1974—a record year for homicides—but Chicago’s population then was more than 3 million and half the city was considered middle class.
In the nearly 50 years since then, Chicago has continued to shrink and decay—beset by woefully inept governance and poisonous policies that ground down all but the most connected of the politically connected.
Hundreds of thousands have left town since then. Chicago’s middle class is all but gone. The working classes of all races and ethnicities, which gave this city its defining character for toughness and endurance, have been decimated. Many make plans to leave. Many more are just stuck.
So, what...
(Excerpt) Read more at johnkassnews.com ...
Mogadishu on the Midway.
The next two “paragraphs”
So, what we’re witnessing in Chicago is not simply a return to some abstract high-crime statistic which could be debated ad nauseum by the sophists and excuse makers.
We’re seeing something else: the symptoms of death. And of civic anarchy, a breakdown and fragmentation, and literal chaos at the most fundamental levels of a once-great city, the most American of all American cities.
Chicongo
I like that one.
Irqago?
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Look no farther than the housing developments as to where crime really metastasized. Sure Chicago had a long history of Italian and Irish gangs and I expect Black too. But if you cram too many people together, take the father’s out of families, this is what you’ll get. And as far as I can tell, democrats wanted the crises as a way to gain power.
I like Chicagodishu.
I call it Chicongo. No Iraqis involved.
This has happened to every Democrat city in the US. Democrats will redistrict to win elections and if that doesn’t work they will cheat. Gotham here we come. So your peaceful community will be at risk. Make sure your community stays safe.
Lori Lightfoot was busy officiating a wedding for the Kennedys
Or Chimbabwe.
ShootCongo
Chiraq, Chicongo, or Chiberia are all accurate. Unless the crooked and evil Chicago politicians correct their course they are going to murder that city just like Detroit.
It’s surprising that the ruining of our cities hasn’t been an issue until now. It is a serious issue and a big deal. Our cities should be our crown jewels but instead the left has turned them into scary disasters. It is remarkable how the left is able to evade accountability.
To put a perspective on that, there were four KIA in Afghanistan during the entire calendar year of 2020. Four.
I wonder what the daily, weekly and weekend number of shootings and killings were during the Chicago gangster days of Prohibition?
Detrago
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