It’s not nice to say, it’s not something I relish in saying, but you can only do so much to protect people from themselves. You can keep bad people away from good ones, but sooner or later, if they’re really intent on being around bad people and bad things, they will find a way. When that happens, you have to throw up your hands and walk away. That’s what we have to do for Americans in Democrat controlled cities – sadly, we have to let them deal with the consequences of who they voted for.
There isn’t a left-wing city in the country that runs risk of electing a Republican, even though the last time one did – New York City with Rudy Giuliani – it worked our really well for them as it made the city livable, cleaned up the streets and lowered crime across the board. With that as an example, no other city followed suit. Oh well, to hell with them.
I get that deep-blue cities aren’t likely to elect Republicans ever, but when presented with the opportunity to choose between a rabid, anti-American, racist, Marxist lunatic and what used to be a run of the mill moderate Democrat, the voters there chose crazy; they chose damaging. When people elect someone who will care more about the criminals than their victims, why would you have sympathy for those people?
Chicago just elected a committed Marxist, a racist piece of garbage who never met a white person he wouldn’t blame for anything – the personification of Critical Race Theory. Soft on crime doesn’t capture the reality of the situation.
I love Chicago, lived there for a very short period of time and visited often growing up in Detroit. It has done nothing but get worse, crime-wise, in my lifetime. Mayors and prosecutors looking for “social justice” by going soft of criminals, mostly black criminals because everything is about race to the left, and ended up making more victims of black people because criminals tend to terrorize where they live and kill people who look like them. The bodies and victims piled up.
Mayor Lori Lightfoot was so committed to the “perpetrator as true victim” criminal justice model that piles of bodies only mattered when they impacted her electoral prospects, never as a matter of principle or for the tragedy they were. Democrats tossed her out in the primary, giving the city a genuine opportunity to reboot; refocus resources on protecting good citizens and not the goons who belong in jail. Voters this week went in a different direction.
There’s no real point in tossing a failed Mayor like Lightfoot when you replace her with someone who holds the exact same policy views. They physical being of the person imposing failed and damaging progressive policies doesn’t matter, the policies themselves do. What victory would have been achieved if Cambodians rose up and removed Pol Pot, only to replace him with a loyal deputy who would continue the horrors he started? It doesn’t matter who plows the killing fields, it’s about the farming.
Chicago had a chance, there was a more-sane Democrat running (they’re all crazy, to one degree or another, at this point), but he lost. The radical left united behind the candidate who will continue to policies that churn out illiterate, hopeless high school graduates (at least for those students who stick around long enough to be socially promoted to graduation). They went with the candidate who will continue the policy of not giving a pile of human excrement about the hundreds of murder victims annually. Voters chose the candidate who will embrace the drug dealer at the expense of the thousands of opioid deaths every year.
In other words: if the status quo hell is what voters in Chicago want, why are we normal people supposed to care?
There’s only so long you can listen to someone banging their head against a wall while complaining about a headache. Once you point out that the headache would probably go away if they stop repeatedly beating it on that wall and they don’t stop, you have to walk away.
Chicago is lost, at least for now, so let it be. So are Detroit, Baltimore, Philadelphia, St. Louis, etc., etc. Republicans should still use them as examples, but there is no point in fighting for people who won’t fight for themselves. They haven’t reached bottom yet, and may never, so be it. They voted for more murders, more death and suffering. Point out the horror and win in areas outside those cities by promising to keep hell contained, but hell must be what these voters want. Let them have it.
Derek Hunter is the host of a free daily podcast (subscribe!), host of a daily radio show, and author of the book, Outrage, INC., which exposes how liberals use fear and hatred to manipulate the masses, and host of the weekly “Week in F*cking Review” podcast where the news is spoken about the way it deserves to be. Follow him on Twitter at @DerekAHunter.