The last time I visited Detroit was last summer. We drove through some blighted areas, but then there are areas which seem to be untouched by any sort of problem.
Detroit is not one vast war zone. The downtown area is rather nice and safe enough to walk around. The area surrounding Hitsville seems vibrant.
The problem is that mayor Coleman Young for 20 years set the stage for a funkified infrastructure where whites were unable to open businesses within the Detroit city limits. So, when they left they took their businesses to the burbs where their businesses are thriving.
What Detroit needs is a Jack Kemp-styled Republican mayor and posse for 20 years. Then, Detroit will have a chance to resemble Grand Rapids.
A lot of the rebuilding is being done by private money and the nutroots were down there screaming eat the rich in places that wouldn’t exist today without the rich.
I had a good weekend trashing their fantasies.
Some idiot was bragging about the “free” bus service and how cool it was to ride old school buses with cool paint jobs. I took great joy in explaining that he was riding private Detroit bus company buses and they weren’t free, they were chartered.