Posted on 08/01/2013 5:22:48 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
Democrcy didn’t fail the Motor City; Liberal/DemocRAT Idiocracy killed it.
“Democrcy didn’t fail the Motor City; Liberal/DemocRAT Idiocracy killed it”
Isn’t that what the voter’s elected? Hence they voted for it, now live with it.
I thought it was a good article. He says that the Dems claim the people of Detroit aren’t responsible for the mess, because all they did was vote for the corrupt pols. However, he disagrees and says that you can’t deny human responsibility for the situation and make it sound like some kind of impersonal force like a hurricane. They voted again and again for corruption and mismanagement and tolerated it because Detroit is a one -party town, and he doesn’t think the rest of us should be asked to bail out these many dysfunctional Democrat towns and cities that are collapsing under the weight of their own corruption.
One thing that no one mentions about the elections in Detroit is that the ballot is nonpartisan. “Democrat” could be right wing for some of these people.
I tend to agree with you. This is a danger of democracy. I have heard it defined as two foxes and a chicken voting on what to have for dinner...
I am now reading “Detroit: An American Autopsy” by Charlie LeDuff, late reporter of the Detroit News and now at FOX.
Fast-paced horror stories full of vulgarities. I’m half way through, but what really epitomized Detroit’s fall to me was when he described the plight of the firemen. Fighting the interminalable fires with worn out equipment, coming back to the station to find the food they were eating when the alarm sounded was stolen from the mess hall, as well as the appliances and one of the guy’s pickup trucks.
They couldn’t slide down the brass poles (they still use them?) as the city sold them for scrap. The fire alarms didn’t work but the fax telling them where the fire was did, so some ingenious guy, using a door hinge, a length of wire and a screw, hooked up the fax to the alarm so it would ring.
I’m at the point where he’s describing the antics of the politicians who ran the city - mostly black. If you think you’ve heard/seen it all - you haven’t.
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