Kathianne
06-15-2023, 02:35 PM
Sure, they have been for the middle class for over 50 years, the riots following George Floyd and Covid experiences have accelerated much of what has been wrong.
It used to be that if you could 'reach a certain income level' Chicago was a great place to live. Not so today and it's not just Chicago:
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/06/15/public-education-is-collapsing-in-blue-cities-n558233
Public education is collapsing in blue cities
DAVID STROM (https://hotair.com/author/david-strom) 3:31 PM on June 15, 2023
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When reality clashes with fantasy, the ultimate outcome is inevitable. And the Blue cities and states are living in fantasy land.
The fantasy is pretty appealing for many people, which is why cities like Portland have had enduring appeal as a concept. Portland, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Chicago had for a long time a visceral appeal to people. A pleasant sort of diversity–lots of good food–a social laissez-faire attitude where you can be you. A vibrancy that is impossible to duplicate in what they portray as “conformist” suburbia.
Who wouldn’t want to live in a city where “young people go to retire?” Even if you don’t want to retire yet, the idea has an appeal.
It is a fantasy. It turns out that civilization requires work, and laissez-faire social norms mean culture clashes that get worse every day. Your desire to groom my kids is completely at odds. And yes, you do indeed need police to ensure that the rapacious among us don’t ruin everything. Utopias turn into hellholes pretty quickly when the people selling the dream get into power, and the utopians themselves turn out to be the worst sort of authoritarians.
That authoritarianism was on full display during the COVID pandemic. The utopians decided that they knew best and that their “let it all hang out philosophy” actually meant that everybody else must submit to their increasingly quixotic whims. Public health simultaneously required draconian lockdowns and rioting. Cop-free zones became crime-permitted zones, inevitably. And the always-welcoming public schools became ideological reeducation camps.
Minneapolis was ground zero for much of the insanity because George Floyd died here and the worst Left-wing zealots run our city. For the first time in our history, the government actually abandoned a police precinct to a mob. Our schools were closed, our playgrounds shut down, and the lockdowns persisted for what seemed like forever.
As with other Blue cities, the results were inevitable: people who could, left. Many more are thinking about doing so if they can scrape up the money to escape. Lawlessness is everywhere and everything is declining fast.
Since 2020–2 1/2 years–the number of children under 5 has declined by 17%.
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It used to be that if you could 'reach a certain income level' Chicago was a great place to live. Not so today and it's not just Chicago:
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/06/15/public-education-is-collapsing-in-blue-cities-n558233
Public education is collapsing in blue cities
DAVID STROM (https://hotair.com/author/david-strom) 3:31 PM on June 15, 2023
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When reality clashes with fantasy, the ultimate outcome is inevitable. And the Blue cities and states are living in fantasy land.
The fantasy is pretty appealing for many people, which is why cities like Portland have had enduring appeal as a concept. Portland, San Francisco, Minneapolis, and Chicago had for a long time a visceral appeal to people. A pleasant sort of diversity–lots of good food–a social laissez-faire attitude where you can be you. A vibrancy that is impossible to duplicate in what they portray as “conformist” suburbia.
Who wouldn’t want to live in a city where “young people go to retire?” Even if you don’t want to retire yet, the idea has an appeal.
It is a fantasy. It turns out that civilization requires work, and laissez-faire social norms mean culture clashes that get worse every day. Your desire to groom my kids is completely at odds. And yes, you do indeed need police to ensure that the rapacious among us don’t ruin everything. Utopias turn into hellholes pretty quickly when the people selling the dream get into power, and the utopians themselves turn out to be the worst sort of authoritarians.
That authoritarianism was on full display during the COVID pandemic. The utopians decided that they knew best and that their “let it all hang out philosophy” actually meant that everybody else must submit to their increasingly quixotic whims. Public health simultaneously required draconian lockdowns and rioting. Cop-free zones became crime-permitted zones, inevitably. And the always-welcoming public schools became ideological reeducation camps.
Minneapolis was ground zero for much of the insanity because George Floyd died here and the worst Left-wing zealots run our city. For the first time in our history, the government actually abandoned a police precinct to a mob. Our schools were closed, our playgrounds shut down, and the lockdowns persisted for what seemed like forever.
As with other Blue cities, the results were inevitable: people who could, left. Many more are thinking about doing so if they can scrape up the money to escape. Lawlessness is everywhere and everything is declining fast.
Since 2020–2 1/2 years–the number of children under 5 has declined by 17%.
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