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2023-04-11 -Great Cultural Revolution
The Left Has Killed Our Great Cities
[The Federalist] Mark down Tuesday, April 4, as the night Chicago died.

That's when we learned that Second City voters narrowly elected Brandon Johnson as their next mayor. This is a city that was flattened during the reign of Mayor Lori Lightfoot, who lost in the first round of voting for Chicago mayor because she didn't finish in one of the top two spots. Lightfoot, elected in 2019 after a career as a federal prosecutor who then held several appointed positions in Chicago, shut down the city for more than a year during COVID-19. She also bankrupted small businesses, allowed rioters to burn down whole neighborhoods, presided over the worst crime wave in 50 years and let the schools go to hell.

Now, the voters have selected Johnson. Elected to the Cook County Board of Commissioners in 2018, Johnson narrowly won the mayoralty of America's third-most-populous city on April 4 over Paul Vallas, a former Chicago schools CEO and a Democrat who presented himself as a political moderate compared to the far-left Johnson.

The incoming mayor may turn out to be a worse mayor than Lightfoot. Johnson's occupation is an organizer for the teachers unions. The unions spent several million dollars on the race. They got their man.

What this means is that Chicago's municipal government will now be a fully owned subsidiary of the Chicago Teachers Union. (Can you imagine what the union contracts are going to look like?) This is a city where, in roughly two dozen schools, zero children can read or write at proficiency level.

Johnson said that crime and shoplifting from local schools are societal problems. And he may continue Lightfoot's policy of not prosecuting people who rob stores -- often owned by minorities.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-04-11 00:33|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ]  Top

#1 Didn't happen overnight.

The destruction of American cities
by Washington Examiner - July 13, 2020 12:00 AM
Posted by Besoeker 2023-04-11 01:30||   2023-04-11 01:30|| Front Page Top

#2 The left has destroyed our great cities, but it has also wrecked our marginal cities and has transformed the libraries in our small towns into nogo zones for kids. There is nothing that they touch that survives without corrosion.
Posted by Super Hose 2023-04-11 03:41||   2023-04-11 03:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Urbanism is obsolete.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-04-11 07:19||   2023-04-11 07:19|| Front Page Top

#4 The LSD plan has been a overwhelming success.
They have created massive METRO-LSD voter plantations. Then using METRO BASED Distracting lines, that negate the other 60+% of the population for many states. (In many metro-areas just about every District starts in the City and extends out into the county. )

Thus, they can nullify a vast majority of the conservative class WORKING voters by out vote the divided up into small wedges of conservative voters .
Then they approve Suburban Land rezoning app's to accommodate Massive Apt. complexes and extend the Metro bus routes to service them.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-04-11 07:59||   2023-04-11 07:59|| Front Page Top

#5 Whole Foods in San Francisco closing one year after opening due to safety concerns: report
Posted by Skidmark 2023-04-11 08:01||   2023-04-11 08:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Ex-San Francisco fire commissioner who was filmed being attacked by a gang of homeless people armed with a metal pipe speaks out to urge mayor to do more to protect residents
Posted by Skidmark 2023-04-11 09:33||   2023-04-11 09:33|| Front Page Top

#7 Los Angeles, Chicago and New York counties top the list for population decline in 2022 - while residents flock to Arizona, Texas and Florida

Immigrants.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-04-11 09:38||   2023-04-11 09:38|| Front Page Top

#8 Delivering blue city votes is not about warm bodies.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-04-11 09:44||   2023-04-11 09:44|| Front Page Top

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