I feel like I’m posting a “Water is Wet” rant.
Listening to the right talk about turning around a decayed inner city, one that has been under democrat control for decades, by ousting the embedded left-wing political apparatus, is eye roll inducing. If only it was that simple.
The city is decayed because of the constituents. The government you get is a reflection of the constituents. The leadership and the constituency are one and the same.
It’s not like city leaders are decent, moral, smart people who just woke up one day to find that their constituency had corroded before their eyes. No.
Decent, moral, smart people woke up one day and noticed that they were being surrounded by indecent, immoral, dumb people and decided to move away. There is no one left to elect except this crud.
How dare I call some clown in a $600 suit crud? Crud comes in many forms. You can be the thug, or you can be the type of person that doesn’t care that you’re the lord of thugs. You’ll see all types of antisocial behavior and see “potential” in them — potential votes. You don’t do or say anything that will drive a parasite away from the voting booth. You bribe them into the voting booth. This is crud. Think John Lewis. Classic crud.
So when an inner city is circling the pooper, please don’t be so naive as to think the city simply needs to turn over its political apparatus to the right. Crud won’t vote right. The city is done.
Forget it, it’s Crudtown.
Shit City
Fecalville
Turdopolis
Thanks for another thoughtful yet incredibly juvenile inspiration BigFurHat!
Those who suffer from the disease of liberalism, don’t want to be cured. They just want to be medicated.
Absolutely right. How many times have we seen politicians declare that an infusion of money for some urban renewal project will revitalize a decrepit ghetto only to see it fail? In Richmond it was the Sixth Street Market Place, where the local dindus shoplifted businesses blind and the attraction didn’t attract suburbanites because it was too dangerous.
Grand Opening. Grand Closing.
Or try walking 2 blocks south of Washington Nationals beautiful baseball stadium. I dare you.
Baltimore’s Inner Harbor? Beautiful, but don’t go out after dark.
crud sausage making
http://americandigest.org/mt-archives/american_studies/days_of_rage_status.php
Oh. I almost forgot.
Happy Black History month everybody!!
And throwing a bunch of money at developing downtown tourist traps is a time-tested recipe for failure, too.
Let’s build a new stadium downtown, with a streetcar line. That’s the ticket.
If we keep throwing money at a historical theater in the crud district, we will eventually get folks from the west side to come visit. Oh wait, what happened, the west side turned to crud too?
Everyone around here would be better off if they just burned that theater down and that stupid ball park. I refuse to go anywhere near the downtown area, the casinos kicked it off and now 25 years later it’s as cruddy as ever.
Exactly — there is a reason when you look at a map of the counties/areas won the majority of flyover country voted Trump and the liberal run cities voted for Hillary. They don’t want to be cured they want their lives and whims funded by taxpayers and they vote for the lunatics that promise the moon along with making sure they tolerant and support abhorrent behavior.
I have seen some cities change the character of a neighborhood, but it does not involve minor changes to what already exists, and it definitely does not follow the liberal/tolerant/compassionate model – although sanctioned and promoted by those self-same liberal/tolerant/compassionate politicians. They turn whole sections of depressed neighborhoods over to developers, who tear down slum housing and put up housing for middle class and professional people, and redevelop commercial areas in order to entice successful chains and more upscale businesses to service the new population dynamic. Essentially, these cities move their poor and government dependent citizens out by pricing them out of the area, and replace them with people who have to work in order to live there.
Chicago has done this with portions of the south loop, which was full of projects and dangerous many years ago. Los Angeles did this with its “LA Live” project centered around Staples Center. There are several smaller cities in southern California that have taken a wrecking ball to slums, ghettos and barrios and replaced them with more upscale housing and businesses.
What about the poor people who used to live in these areas? They move, and so far as I can tell the local politicians – the same politicians you see on television clamoring for more money to assist the poor – not only don’t care, but are actually involved in this process. And these poor people are not relocated per se; they are just priced out of an area and expected to move somewhere out of sight and out of mind.
This may sound cruel and heartless, but current liberal inner city policies have not worked in 50 plus years.
Thank you TexasGunOwner! I just order a copy of, “Days of Rage,” from one of the members of abebooks.com.
Obama tried to launch a movement (pun intended) of sh!t to the suburbs. The US Census Bureau is collecting data at this very moment in an attempt to spread the inner city crud far and wide across America.
Pray that DJT brings this to an immediate halt… or you can kiss the USA good-bye. 🙁
The G-spot is hard to find some days.
I will say Rudy Giuliani did show that it is possible to turn a city around by plucking New York City from the toilet bowl whirlpool.
The problem is, there are very few Rudy Giulianis in the world.
Jerry, you forgot Detroilet
Did you know you could go to Detroit and see paintings by Degas and Cezanne?
“Start your Detroit tour at DIA, the city’s crown jewel. The Detroit Institute of Arts opened at its current location, near downtown, in 1927, during the post–World War I auto-industry boom that made Detroit one of the world’s wealthiest cities. The museum’s Beaux Arts building is massive, with more than 100 galleries, but if you choose carefully among the collections, you can be in and out in two hours. Check out the works by Degas and Cézanne and the collection of pieces by African-American artists; also, definitely see Diego Rivera’s expansive mural known as Detroit Industry. Finally, spend a few moments to reflect in the Kresge Court, an inner courtyard and café.
“For lunch, walk — yes, people walk in Detroit, at least in this neighborhood — to a popular creperie nearby…..”
My comment — I guess they walk because the locals strip the cars of the tourists.
http://content.time.com/time/travel/cityguide/article/0,31489,1994456_1994357_1994239,00.html
Oh! Oh! Oh! Let’s make it an Olympics city! That’ll wow everybody!
PHenry FEBRUARY 2, 2017 AT 8:24 AM “Oh. I almost forgot.Happy Black History month everybody!!”
When isn’t it black history month?
CRUD
Create, Read, Update and Delete.
Never forget the last part.
How many shopping days until Kwanza?
sylvia, the difference between a g-spot and a golf ball is a man will look for a golf ball for hours