I\u2019m not completely sure how important an issue rampant crime will be in the political situation in America.\u00a0 It\u2019s already fueling an enormous flight from the major cities and that is having a major impact on everything from used car prices to the pricing and availability of houses in the suburbs to the supply and demand of seats in private schools.\u00a0 But as much as the big cities are and will remain the uncontested domain of Democrat politicians you have to wonder what will happen as the unchecked crime in theses areas becomes a permanent condition.<\/p>\n
Already it has had some impact on the politics in some of the biggest cities.\u00a0 New York has selected the closest thing to a law-and-order Democrat to be their next mayor.\u00a0 And the pop-eyed lesbian mayor of Chicago, Lori Lightfoot, has hinted that she might not run for re-election in two years.\u00a0 What she doesn\u2019t mention is that she may be ridden out of town on a rail long before that if the current rate of murders in Chicago continues unabated.<\/p>\n
What this is leading up to in my thought here is the question of whether there will be a turning point where the cities pull back from the madness or each just spirals down into a dysfunctional no-man\u2019s land like Detroit or Baltimore.\u00a0 I think it might not be a uniform decision.\u00a0 As we see New York is starting to reverse course.\u00a0 But places like Portland and Minneapolis will probably stay the course and ride this wave right into the ground.\u00a0 A recent report stated that Minneapolis has seen a 60% increase in murder last year and just yesterday a woman\u2019s headless body was found in a car on the street in one of the neighborhoods of Minneapolis indicating that we are well on the way to abject savagery.<\/p>\n
My guess is that the crime epidemic will go a long way to consolidate the Republicans in the red states as fear of the blue city crime will favor no-nonsense candidates who take a pro-police stance and promise to protect the people living in the suburbs and rural areas from the roving gangs of urban thugs that have been unleashed by the cities.\u00a0 One thing that will be interesting to see is whether states like Georgia and Missouri decide to step in and clean up Atlanta and St. Louis.\u00a0 If things really spin out of control in those places I wonder if the state will take control of the police in those jurisdictions and override the local control.\u00a0 It would seem that it would be warranted on a civil rights basis if the people in these cities were shown to be suffering from criminal mismanagement.<\/p>\n
I have no illusions about the blue states doing anything similar about their cities.\u00a0 They will convince themselves that this is all the result of white supremacists selling illegal guns to poor innocent gangbangers who just want to keep up with the fentanyl arms race that free enterprise necessitates.\u00a0 They can get their constituents to believe anything they tell them so they\u2019ll just let the degeneration of their cities proceed and the elites will move to secured suburbs and everyone else will pay a price.\u00a0 But no price is too much to pay for equity, diversity and inclusion.<\/p>\n
But what about the supposed purple states?\u00a0 Are there any states like Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, maybe Virginia that could see what\u2019s going on and learn something about what\u2019s wrong with the Left\u2019s vision of the world?\u00a0 Could watching Philadelphia or Kenosha burned and looted and seeing their fellow citizens without police to protect them from merciless thugs in their own neighborhoods convince the \u201cmoderates\u201d that backing the Left is a terrible mistake.\u00a0 The answer is no, I don\u2019t believe it will.\u00a0 I think the sorting between the Left and Right has already occurred and those places are lost.\u00a0 But I could be wrong about that.\u00a0 I hope I am.<\/p>\n
So that\u2019s my take.\u00a0 The Antifa-BLM riots and the elimination of the urban police departments may very well serve as the object lesson that the red states need to formulate a strategy to protect themselves from the Obama insurrection.\u00a0 In fact, if it doesn\u2019t then there really isn\u2019t any hope for this country.\u00a0 Seeing the fate of our greatest cities and then witnessing the daily spectacle of old men and women being brutally beaten and sometimes killed while the police stand down and let it happen is all the warning we\u2019ll ever get.\u00a0 We\u2019ll soon enough know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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