Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven

It’s not an accident; it’s Democrats turning their own failures into political power.

If you attempt to watch the YouTube version of Tucker Carlson’s report on what’s going on in Atlanta from Monday night, you’ll find yourself wading through warnings that “the following content has been identified by the YouTube community as inappropriate or offensive to some audiences.” There is nothing pornographic in Carlson’s report. Nor is there foul language. 

 What’s “inappropriate” or “offensive” in it is the truth about the people who run Atlanta, truth that everyone knows and understands. It’s the fact someone might speak the truth in a video appearing on YouTube that is offensive to the “YouTube community.” The funny thing is, Carlson isn’t telling the half of it.

Let’s introduce you to a term you should be familiar with if you want to fully understand urban Democrat governance and its effects on the population of a city. That term is Weaponized Governmental Failure. 

Somewhere along the line, the urban Democrat machine politicians realized that running cities badly enough would chase off the middle class and leave them with a thin crust of wealthy people over a large mass of the poor. And a city thus populated would never elect Republicans, or even reform-minded Democrats. Accountability would disappear.

There is probably no class of individuals on the planet that are worse at their jobs than big city Mayors and big city City Counsel members.  These people are generally highly partisan, highly political, and highly incompetent. But they become kingmakers in sorts because of the large mass of people that they reign over. Ironically those whom they reign over are either just as partisan and political as they are (those would be the wealthy) or completely fooled into believing that the real fault for the big city plight falls with someone else, somewhere else (those would be the poor).

Now I am not convinced that this is part of a giant diabolic conspiracy to liberalize the big cities into what we are seeing today. I honestly believe that most of these elected leaders are probably 20% conniving and 80% incompetent. It's my humble opinion that they believe in what they are doing or otherwise believe that their leadership is what is needed. Perhaps they even believe that their own failures are the fault of other people. 

But the concept is an interesting one and worthy of debate. The facts are obvious. It's hard to live in a community where there isn't a thriving middle class. Middle class America in many ways is the American dream, even more so than being wealthy. To raise children in an environment that stresses community. To volunteer to coach, to get involved with local events, and to have a personal relationship with your city is all middle class. You neither experience that when you are poor or when you are rich. 

To think of a community where there is just that hole is saddening. Where those who might want to get involved are incapable and those who can are unwilling.  Everyone is unhappy to some degree and everyone is looking for someone to blame. Those they should be blaming are pointing fingers at other boogeymen as a means to maintain power, and unfortunately they seem to be falling for it.