So, the cities that have been devastated by their lousy electoral decisions are beginning to recoil against their suicidal choices.
In Chicago a law and order choice is emerging to challenge the pop-eyed lunacy of Lori Lightfoot. In San Francisco a recall vote is poised to remove their criminally negligent District Attorney Chesa Boudin from office. Do I find these developments hopeful or encouraging? Not at all. The people in these cities are absolute fools. Any temporary respite from the insanity they are currently experiencing will bring them right back to the same positions on police and criminals that got them into their present disaster.
When they recall their district attorney, they’ll substitute an idiot that’s just one click less absurd than Boudin. And if Lightfoot is replaced with a law-and-order mayor the city council and the rest of the establishment will work to undermine the authority and actions of the new mayor.
No, there’s no shortcut to fixing these cities. They will have to hit bottom. It will have to get so bad that the liberals will be forced to run away. That will leave the remaining poor people with the chance to learn from their stupidity and act sanely.
But even in red states and with blue cities this lunacy also exists. It seems to me that if there is ever to be an end to all this dysfunction, a state government has to initiate new laws to intercede where local governments have failed their citizens. So, the governor of Texas should see what’s going on in Austin or some other blue Texas city and intervene when its local government enacts some crack pot legislation that harms its own citizens. Whether it’s allowing homeless people to invade a neighborhood or declaring itself a sanctuary city for illegal aliens or electing a district attorney that refuses to prosecute felons the state should have a plan to override these activities and even prosecute elected officials who enact such insane things.
Something like that should have been done during the George Floyd riots. Large mobs of looters and arsonists should have been confronted by National Guard units and been warned to disperse or risk arrest or worse. I guarantee they would have disappeared into the night, never to be heard from again.
The first governor who starts thinking, talking and acting this way will be vilified by the press and acclaimed a hero by his own citizens. And it’s a cinch that he’d be copied by twenty other red state governors almost immediately. Who knows, there might be a few blue states that would elect a copycat republican governor who ran on a similar platform of cleaning up the urban decay and taking strong action against criminals and lawlessness.
But this is happy-happy talk. We’re nowhere near any of this. The appearance of a strong man willing to stand up to Washington and take drastic action against anarchists and urban progressive lunatics hasn’t come to fruition yet. DeSantis has taken the first steps. He’s challenged some of the blue cities on specific points but he hasn’t taken them on head on. Maybe his state doesn’t have those kinds of cities. I’d assume that Miami would be like that but maybe I’m wrong. But when we start to hear about that kind of strong action against progressive lunacy then we’ll know something real is happening in the country. Let’s hope it starts sooner than later. We could use it.
Miami is an interesting place. With all the Cubans, there are still enough people there that remember what it was like to live under an oppressive regime to balance things a good bit. But their numbers are dwindling as they get older.
Jason, how bad has the crime been in the Florida cities since the George Floyd riots? New York and the other old northern cities are in a shambles. But how about Florida?