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Let’s see. Many of the nation’s big cities are being destroyed by criminals. Local mayors do not know what to do. Local prosecutors, as happened in New York, are decriminalizing crime, letting perpetrators go and otherwise looking the other way.
With a few exceptions, the media has been ignoring the issue, because it makes Democrats look bad.
And let’s not forget the migrant invasion taking place on our Southern border. Or the rampant inflation that is eating away at our prosperity. And, by the by, how are things going in what's left of Ukraine?
So, we are dealing with a failed administration and a massive urban political calamity.
Take a look at this report, from the Daily Mail.
San Francisco, Cleveland and Portland have the most deserted downtowns in the US as soaring crime rates in the Democratic cities scare away workers and tourists.
In a recent study by the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California Berkeley, San Francisco's downtown area was found to be only 31 percent active over the spring of 2022 when compared to pre-pandemic levels, with Cleveland at 36 percent and Portland at 41 percent.
Leading the crime statistics is San Francisco:
According to the latest available FBI Unified Crime Report, San Francisco had the highest overall crime rate of the 20 largest cities in the United States, recording 6,917 crimes per 100,000 population in 2019.
The rising crime rate was produced by the movement to defund the police. It was also produced by a media and politicians who refused to call the Black Lives Matter riots an insurrection:
A year later following the Black Lives Matter protests, the call to defund the police grew among Democratic leaders.
San Francisco Mayor London Breed demanded cities defund the police last year, announcing that the Golden Gate City would be one of the first to do so and promising to slice $120million from the budgets of its police and sheriff's departments.
The city also greenlit its first open-air drug market in San Francisco's civic center, which spurred vagrants in homeless encampments across the city to use illegal substances out in broad daylight.
Breed has since made a screeching U-turn and announced she was asking the city's Board of Supervisors for more money to be given to the police to stamp out drug dealing, car break-ins, and theft.
Now, what is the national Democratic Party offering to solve this problem? You might say that is incapable of getting a grip on the problem, and you would be right.
It has another approach, one that is championed by the Democrats and a few former Republicans. That is, to shift the blame. Witness the constant coverage of the January 6 investigation. That means, to cover up the problem by ranting hysterically about Donald Trump. And to turn loser Liz Cheney into a modern day Joan of Arc. For all of her supposed love of the truth, Liz is a model for disloyalty, a tool who is being used by Democrats to cover up the BLM riotous insurrection.
So, while crime engulfs your neighborhood, while smash and grab robberies, looting and pillage become commonplace, and while Democrats are radically incapable of taking responsibility for their failed policies, we have Democratic political operative James Carville explaining that the real problem is Donald Trump’s handling of documents.
According to Carville, Trump's possible mishandling of documents is the worst thing that has happened to the country since 9/11. When Democrats engage in cover-ups, when they distract your attention from their failures, they go big:
Carville explained:
This Mar-a-Lago story … might be the biggest story since 9/11….
This is just one small bit of hyperbolic rhetoric, but, rest assured the FBI raid on Donald Trump and the attending chaos is designed for one primary purpose: to shore up the Democratic Party’s chances in the upcoming elections. And to do so by distracting the nation from the crime wave that the Democratic Party unleashed and that it does not know how to stifle.
To state the obvious, the Republicans have their own responsibility for what seems about to happen in the upcoming elections. For having nominated a series of people who have no idea what they are doing, for having nominated them on the basis of Trump support, Republican voters simply played into the Democrats' hands.
[And take a look at this, from normally sane Financial Times columnist Edward Luce, seconded by former CIA director Michael Hayden:
6 comments:
I’m new to your blog, and I like it. A lot.
I save all new blogs to a “sites on trial” folder. If I keep enjoying a particular blog, I move it to the permanent folder.
Well, I’m liking “Therapy” so much it is now very near the top of the permanent list.
Well thought out and presented, intelligent and smack on.
Glad some other blog (I forget which) threw a link to you.
Bill in Sarasota
Many thanks for the kind words. Will try to keep it up!!!
I object to Cleveland being lumped in with Portland and San Francisco in the Daily Mail article. I have lived in suburbs outside of Cleveland for most of my 60 years. Cleveland peaked when the Cavaliers won the NBA Championship in 2016, and was dead or dying the rest of the time. I currently live in a leafy suburb 15 minutes from downtown, but never go in. Not because it's dangerous, but because I'm not interested in the casino or big sporting events.
The city of Cleveland is small, about a third the size of Columbus. There are some residential neighborhoods in the city, but most people live and work in the suburbs. The greater metropolitan region is doing fine.
Cleveland skipped most of the BLM nonsense. Our new mayor is a young, black fellow who has been working to end federal oversight of the police department so they can be more effective. The police recently made a couple of dozen arrests to curb a decade's long problem of teenagers driving unlicensed quads and dirt bikes around the neighborhoods.
Portland and San Francisco were desirable cities that rapidly went into decline due to irresponsible decisions by progressive city leadership. Cleveland is a rust-belt city working to be relevant to the people who live and work in it's pleasant suburbs.
Hey, newcomer, Bill. I need to remind you that Stuart is a Never Trumper. In the next to last paragraph of the post, he reminds you that "Republican voters simply played into the Democrats' hands." How? "...for having nominated them [candidates] on the basis of Trump support."
Careful with the name calling, BB. No one with any sense believes that it is a good thing to have candidates like Herschel and Dr. Oz-- heck, even Tucker Carlson explained last night that supporting such candidates was very helpful to the Democrats. As was Trump's attack on the Georgia Republican party during the two senate races last year-- which arguably handed the senate to the Democrats.
When I was still a partner in my old law firm I went to dinner with a number of my coevals on the eve of our annual bigwigs' conclave. It was in early 2016 and I announced my unequivocal support for The Donald. After a shocked silence, someone asked me why and I replied that it was not Trump per se, but what he represented--a wrecking ball to the establishment that ruled us from Washington, DC. It remains my rationale for Trump support today, actually more so now that the DC cabal has clearly made its malign presence known. I will continue to support Trump despite my belief that he has made some serious misjudgments about some matters, most particularly his decision to give a speech on 1/6/2020 when he should have known that it would simply provide his antagonists in the democrat party and its administrative state apparatchiks ammunition against his continued existence in the world of politics. "Rally round the flag, boys" is now my motto, meant unironically.
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