Depopulating the left

The collapse of cities is something unique in all of history

America is witnessing something that has never before happened—-at least, not in the way it’s happening here.

Our cities are shrinking. Jazz Shaw, the culture writer says that Chicago proves that with the current construct of cities, they are unsustainable. The recent mayoral election there was the death knell, ensuring more crime, more looting, more murder, and fewer responsible citizens or tax payers. Already major corporations such as Boeing, Tyson Foods, Caterpillar, and Citadel have pulled out of Chicago itself or the suburbs. (Taxes and difficulty of getting people to move there, ya know?)

Austin is requiring 24/7 armed guards to protect the courthouse from the army of illegal homeless that have destroyed a once beautiful city. Portland saw Raines PDX, a clothing store, pull out saying

“Small businesses (and large) cannot sustain doing business in our city’s current state. We have no protection, or recourse, against criminal behavior that goes unpunished. Do not be fooled into thinking that insurance companies cover losses. We have sustained 15 break-ins. … We have not received any financial reimbursement since the 3rd.”

But even the Raines PDX statement in part indicates the problem: “financial reimbursement” from the gubment should never be a major form of income for any business. Other than that, I sympathize. You live in a hellhole, regardless of how pretty it is outside.

Stephen Moore agrees with Shaw. Cities used to make sense: consolidate a lot of the government, banking, and high-dollar entertainment in one area. Provide good restaurants, safe streets, bright lights, and an experience you don’t get in some smaller burbs.

That’s gone now. Even Phoenix’s downtown is being overrun by homeless. (Fortunately for Phoenix, it has never been truly a “central city” but a series of exoburbs. The sports complexes and gubment are still there, but no one would ever go to downtown Phoenix for any other reason).

Right now, in addition to Portland, Austin, and Chicago—-or, as I like to call it, “Benghazi-by-the-Lake”—-New York (“New Kabul”), Philadelphia (Kinshasa-on-the-Delaware), San Francisco (“Groomer City”), Los Angles (“New Calcutta”), and Minneapolis (“New Mogadishu”) are rapidly collapsing.

What’s so amazing is that nothing like this has happened in history. Of course cities have been depopulated. Rome, at its peak, is estimated to have been 1 million strong, but only about 30,000 remained when whatever Goth-of-the-Month took over in 476 A. D. Carthage? Yeah, it was gone because Rome utterly destroyed it. The same with such ancient relics such as Babylon or Ur.

Likewise, in the 1200s-1300s, major European urban areas were depopulated by plagues. But those were outside influences. One could question where places such as Berlin and Tokyo and Hiroshima would be today if the U.S. had not so generously helped in rebuilding the post-war World.

But has any civilization committed a civic hari-kari? I can’t find one. Most people throughout the ages have had the common sense and survival instinct to weed out the bad apples, ensure public safety, and reject spoogistic, goofball, chodeistic analgland thinking when it started to cut into what we would call “ordinary life.”

Look at Groomer City: for decades it has, with its policies, discriminated against families with children. It has celebrated a lifestyle of sin that cannot procreate, replace, or grow. All it could do was encourage hedonism.

Contrast this with the ChiComs’ cities: Say what you want about the commies, but this is more appealing than any of our rat-trap transoid prisons.

My guess is that because of the weather, proximity to the ocean, and potential to virtue-shame Silicon Valley billionaires into pumping in more money, Groomer City will actually survive a bit longer than Portland or Bengahzi-by-the-Lake. Already, though major companies are hightailing it out of Groomer City. They all will be totally hollowed out soon. But will the rest of America have the sense to enact “No Vacancy” signs?

Larry Schweikart, Rock drummer, Film maker, NYTimes #1 bestselling author.

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