War-torn third-world country? No, Detroit, and likely the rest of America’s cities in the future if we keep riding the Obama Banana Republic Expressway.
If Detroit was a person, it would have an infectious disease requiring quarantine. Even liberals know that you don’t foolishly continue to expose the infected to the rest of the population, but they don’t seem to get it that Detroit’s problems will infect the rest of the nation if we follow the liberal policies that bankrupted Detroit.
Liberal pundits are taking the opportunity to blame Detroit’s bankruptcy on capitalism and small government (!), anything other than what the balance sheet really says. In this fanciful Bizarro World scenario, all Detroit needs is more government and all will be well again.
In the real world, Detroit followed the ideal liberal path, funneling tax dollars into a vast Ponzi scheme mostly benefitting those running the asylum. It’s a highly predictable path, travelled time and again, as money and power is transferred from the individual to the government.
As money and power accumulates, those in the system fight to not only keep it that way, but to accumulate more. As it accumulates it becomes ever more corrupting as unethical, immoral and unlawful behavior is justified as “public service,” a handy euphemism for mo’ money for MoTown and the MFIC (Mother F’er in Charge, as Detroit’s former mayor Coleman Young so charmingly referred to himself as).
Detroit has been run by a gaggle of Anthony Weiners, people with no shame, drunk on power and the prestige of their offices who rewarded cronies, enslaved the needy with dependence and screwed the productive (which is why most of them left town). This is exactly what you will end up with when you vote Democrat.
I could enumerate all the data – the crime, the third world literacy rate, the crumbling infrastructure, the ratio of public workers to citizens, the waste, the graft, the corruption and so forth – that points to the exact opposite of what liberal pundits are claiming, but they know all that.
What confuses them, I suppose, is that a bigger and more involved (intrusive) government didn’t yield the Utopian returns they expected. It never does, but for whatever reason, and despite all the evidence, there is obviously a market for this bankrupt ideology.
