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[Pre-order a copy of David Horowitz’s next book, America Betrayed, by clicking here. Orders will begin shipping on May 7th.]
For decades, Democrats have controlled the nation’s largest cities. The results have been catastrophic, including high crime rates, blight, failing public educational systems, rampant poverty, and an expanding homeless population.
These horrific outcomes are due to Democrats supporting failed policies, such as raising taxes, increasing regulations, growing the government, and refusing to prosecute violent criminals. Consequently, citizens voted with their feet and left in droves, a trend which has started to accelerate.
For example, while the country’s population soared sixty million to 341 million since 2000, it was a much different situation in the progressive hellhole of Chicago. The “Windy City” lost 231,000 people in 24 years, the most out migration of any city in the nation.
No one can blame citizens for wanting to exit a city led by a leftist like Lori Lightfoot. Unfortunately, Chicago voters did not learn their lesson and recently elected Mayor Brandon Johnson, an even more radical Democrat.
Chicago is not alone among our nation’s largest cities. Since the onset of the pandemic, New York lost 492.928 people, while 379.447 citizens fled Los Angeles and 173,877 exited San Francisco.
Liberal Democrats dominate all our nation’s large cities. If their policies worked, residents would gladly stay. Instead, Democrats institute unpopular policies such as the strict mandates during the initial stages of the pandemic.
In addition, these cities were the scene of violent riots in the summer of 2020, after the death of George Floyd. To placate “Black Lives Matter” protesters, a myriad of Democratic Party leaders demonized police and supported efforts to defund law enforcement. Thereafter, law enforcement agencies across the country suffered a loss of personnel, but it was especially problematic in Chicago (10.6%), New York (4.8%), Los Angeles (6.0%), and San Francisco (11.6%).
The statistics show that as police leave, so do law abiding residents, who realize that criminals rule the city streets. One city that has been particularly impacted by a shrinking police force is New Orleans. According to the President of the Police Association of New Orleans, Captain Mike Glasser, the ideal size for the department is 1,600 officers.
Incredibly, there are only 900 officers in the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) today. There are so many police officers leaving the NOPD that it is on track to have the fewest number of officers in 77 years. The predictable result occurred in 2022 as New Orleans became the “Murder Capital” of the nation.
The law enforcement shortage is occurring throughout Louisiana. Newly elected Republican Governor, Jeff Landry, recently issued an executive order declaring a “State of Emergency” due to the scarcity of police.
The Louisiana Sheriff’s Association announced that their offices statewide faced a shortage of 1,800 deputies. This “record-low” staffing resulted in “an increase in response time.” The Governor claimed that the emergency was leading to “increased crime and less public safety.”
Hopefully, renewed attention on this crisis will lead to an increase in law enforcement staffing in Louisiana. In the meantime, cities like New Orleans will continue to suffer.
The latest U.S. Census report showed that over the last four years, the New Orleans metropolitan area suffered the largest percentage population decline in the nation. Since 2020, 45,000 people have left the New Orleans area, a loss of 4.3% of the overall population.
One reason for the troubles in the New Orleans area was the historic damage caused by powerful Hurricane Ida that slammed the region in 2021. It led to the departure of many insurance companies, resulting in skyrocketing costs for homeowners.
However, another reason people left New Orleans was the lack of public safety. Residents who felt unsafe fled the city if they could afford to leave.
Which political party is to blame? In New Orleans and other progressive cities, Democrats have total control. In fact, the last Republican Mayor of New Orleans was elected in 1872. Today, in New Orleans, there are no Republicans in any elected offices, not on the city council, the school board or in the judiciary.
With total power, Democrats have ultimate responsibility for all the problems, and no city official is more responsible than the mayor. In New Orleans, Mayor LaToya Cantrell is so incompetent that a recall campaign was launched against her last year.
While they failed to oust her, recall organizers highlighted her innumerable deficiencies. Instead of focusing on the real problems in New Orleans, Cantrell fancies herself as a world leader, traveling from one international climate change conference to another. She is a regular attendee at Aspen Institute events and has racked up countless frequent flier miles.
Unfortunately, while she is hobnobbing internationally, her city is struggling. Next January, New Orleans will be in the worldwide spotlight as the host of the Super Bowl. It will be a time for New Orleans to shine internationally, not be embarrassed due to disastrous leadership.
Mayor Cantrell has also been embroiled in a scandal involving a city owned apartment in a historic French Quarter building. She has refused to turn over the keys and has been using the apartment as her personal residence. The City Council has demanded that the keys be returned so the residence can be refurbished and used for dignitaries who visit New Orleans.
On this matter and other issues, Cantrell has displayed utter arrogance and disregard for the citizens she represents. This attitude is typical of the “leadership” shown by Democrats throughout the country. If they genuinely cared about their constituents, they would not enact policies that lead to such urban decay.
To the residents suffering in “blue” cities, please wake up and examine what is happening in the “red” states of Florida, Tennessee, South Dakota, Texas, and others that are growing. Their policies work and attract residents and businesses. Tell the Democrats who are causing all the problems, “you’re fired.”
It is not too late to save America’s cities, but the rescue plan needs to start immediately, and it begins with these abused voters removing their dreadful political leaders.
How to ruin your City? Elect Democrats Chicago Is a example and yes Democrats are ruining states and the whole Country
Detroit, once the industrial hub of America, filed for bankruptcy, yet still elect shitheads dumber than Grifter Joe. (One mayor couldn’t pass the literature needed for his BA degree, so he sued to get it, and wailed “racism!”
3 outta 4 street lights don’t have their bulbs working.
Houses are boarded up everywhere, as they can’t sell due to low-lifes taking over the neighborhood.
MANY swaths of Detroit and Baltimore look like Berlin circa 1945. Both cities run, and ONLY run by entitled minorities with severely low I.Q.s. (bribes & kickbacks are a default.)
As with Vietnam, Democ-rat politicians intend to destroy the cities in order to save them. How does that work? Ask Democ-rat globalist John Kerry; he “served” in Vietnam, you know.
Never underestimate the stupidity of the American voter.
Q] What’s the best argument against democracy?
A] A five minute conversion with your average voter.
The problem is the voters. They vote these criminals in and then complain about them.
Given the “hate America” and “white people” agenda being pushed in public schools and colleges we can count on it getting worse. It’s no accident a large portion of younger people have no problem with socialism and bigotry.
Won’t happen as along as our favorite “oppressed” class is continuously told how oppressed they are, how they need reparations, and free this and that, the same grifters will keep getting elected. At this point I don’t much care except when they venture out of their hell-holes and attempt to hijack my car, or shoot up my neighborhood.
I got out of blue state Kalifornia 10 years ago. Whitey will just continue to bail on the these Leftist paradises.
Vote out the soft on crime Soros prosecutors and Judges and the idiot Democrat marxists.
Trump ’24 MAGA
Was the uber leftist Hilter’s strategy. Has been used since forever.
The more you play the victim minority cause the more pond life floats to the surface. As stated so well here highest crime rates, failed basic services, insufficient police, etc.
No wonder good folks are leaving. And a lot of these will drive the “ brain drain’ out and lower prosperity for the city inhabitants.
Left wing BS policy all the way.
Trumpie all the way !!👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🙏🏿
They move out , but bring the ideas that made them move with them.
I am so tired of hearing this nonsense. I’d give anything to get out of the hellpit that is Chicago. But my financial and family situation do not allow for that.
If I did ever escape, why would I vote to make my new place like the place I just left?!
I understand your feeling there, but I live in one of most red states, (Wyoming) and trust me, more times than not, the blue state people who move out west completely change the culture, the voting districts, and the entire political landscape. And not for the better. A perfect example is Colorado (I was born there and spent my first 18 years there. That was 45 years ago). It was red, conservative, agricultural, and had mining, oil, as well as tourism. Now Colorado is defined by the people who “escaped” Kalifornia. It is a pot smoking, sanctuary city, leftist product of those transplanted big city assholes, overrun by drug addicts, homeless, and everything that defined that fine state in the past. And they are broke because of it. It wasn’t the old time locals that changed that culture, because if you get away from the front range, the people are like the old true Colorado people. I’m guessing the same can be said for Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.
Would agree. My reading of many recent surveys of peoples positions on many social, cultural and economic issues is that 25-30 percent of the voting public are communist fascist or out right Nazi. As a result these people are essentially spiteful Mutants, putting in place policies that are detrimental to themselves as well as the group to which they belong.
Arizona and Colorado. Both states display what happens when folks flee their home state (Cali) liberal political mess. But they do not change their voting habits.
Idaho, Montana, watch out…
Oregon and Washington are already lost.
Not all of us – left California in 2017 and as a refugee I made sure that not a single policy or law from California came with me
Yeah, the move is probably more financial than political. Crediting them with any sense of foresight is a mistake. Crediting them with hindsight is an ever bigger mistake. “Stupid is is what stupid does.”
In the interest of not being labeled racist, I will defer comment on this issue.
keep sucking grobama dick & swallowing, assholes
Some advise …
“To the residents suffering in “blue” cities, please wake up and examine what is happening in the “red” states of Florida, Tennessee, South Dakota, Texas, and others that are growing. Their policies work and attract residents and businesses.”
Please leave your Marxist baggage there as you leave. Nobody in the states you are fleeing to want that BS to ruin what we have built.
They destroy a city leave for another city and destroy that one in a perpetual motion of destruction.
Nonsense. Moving cities is never easy. It costs a lot of money. It’s very stressful. The more people you have in your family, the more complicated it is.
Why would I spend all that money and time and effort to find a new place, only to make that new place into the hellpit I just spent all that money and time and effort to escape?
That doesn’t even make sense on a logic level.
Niice to know that if I ever did get to escape the hellpit that is Chicago, I would be treated like utter trash by my new neighbors.
To be honest, this information has come as a shock. I never would have expected that. I figured people would be happy to have neighbors escaping such places and who share the same values they do.
So I don’t belong in this hellhole, but I won’t belong or be wanted in any other city I may ever find, either.
Might as well stay here and wait to get shot by the gangs or for the illegals to take over the city.
I know that in Wyoming, your new neighbors would probably welcome you, however that is provided you don’t try to change the culture. I’ve seen people who have moved here and tried to stick with the old ideas they came from. Even impose those ideas. They will get called out in a hurry. However, people who are truly conservative (say from California, or back east) that try to fit in, usually feel right at home. It also depends on which part of the state you pick. We have a couple of blue counties that we just don’t claim. One contains the University of Wyoming (go figure) the other is Jackson, which is all billionaire transplants, and most of them very liberal.
“No one can blame citizens for wanting to exit a city led by a leftist like Lori Lightfoot. Unfortunately, Chicago voters did not learn their lesson and recently elected Mayor Brandon Johnson, an even more radical Democrat.”
I didn’t vote for either one.
The problem is that those of us who don’t for these politicians and their destructive policies get stuck with the same result as those who did vote for them. If the consequences would only fall on those who want them and vote for them, that would be fine with me!
But real life and the real world doesn’t work that way.
I agree with that. That is exactly how I feel about any jerkoff that voted for Biden. I have to deal with their stupidity (and results of their cheating). They are never held accountable, nor to they even try to live by their own twisted rules. Same with idiots like Lightfoot, AOC, or any asshole dem from New York or California.
I have three friends that visit me and shoot prairie dogs. They told me “we’re from Illinois, but not Chicago” Important distinction for them. One of them farms about 3000 acres in northern Illinois. That is about as country as you can get.
Also, I understand that moving is expensive, but living in a blue city is also expensive. Once you get out, a lot of things may be much cheaper, depending on where you would move to.
We USED to enjoy a trip to New Orleans – MANY years ago!! We noticed the streets getting dirtier and more FOREIGN and the vendors most certainly more foreign and much more aggressive pushing their overpriced junk! We continued to visit Friends below NO but have stopped driving THROUGH NO and add about 20 miles per trip just to avoid the traffic and construction debris!! I highly doubt we’ll go back to NO!
It’s IRONIC – no, more like MORONIC – that the DEMONcrats bemoan the RETURN of PRESIDENT TRUMP as a threat to “democracy”! Just look at what happens when DEMONcrats RULE a CITY for any period of time – DECAY, DECADENCE, and DEATH! And look at the behavior of those “leaders” – more like 3rd country tinpot DICTATORS! The people who suffer under their DEMONcrat overlords only have THEMSELVES to blame!
Too bad people don’t connect the two (Democrat-run cities and third world shitholes) when the Dems cry about “saving our democracy”. That would take a measure of reasoning which is sorely lacking on the left.
Math will always prevail over melodramatic rhetoric. This unprecedented influx of illegal residents cannot be sustained indefinitely. Worse, once the bureaucrats realize their shortsightedness (if ever) it may have become a terminal condition.
No problem as long as those who relocate understand how they previous state/city got so bad – by the dumb voters always voting for Dems.
I think that’s asking a bit too much of the “dumb voters” who are re-locating. It’s obvious politics isn’t their strong suit.
shi-ite happens when u let the dindus run free