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Government Corruption
Tucker Carlson, Buckhead, and Why Our Cities Fail
2021-06-17
[SPECTATOR.ORG] Keisha Lance Bottoms might well be an abject fool, and she is unquestionably terrible at running a major city. This is not in question. But Keisha Bottoms, like any urban Democrat mayor, is not an island unto herself. She’s more of an iceberg. She’s what you see, but beneath the surface is a vast political machine, an army of political fixers and operatives and assorted grifters, babus bureaucrats, lawyers, and street hustlers. Most of them are educated, at least to a degree, almost all of them have lots of experience in politics and government, and even if Bottoms is a fool they are not.

So how does Atlanta collapse from a world-class city to one that has its nicest area trying to escape? Not by accident.

Look, what makes a place livable is not the presence of lots of rich people. Rich people put themselves behind high walls, and rich people do what they can to keep the riffraff out. Having lots of rich people makes an area exclusive, not livable.
Posted by:Fred

#13  All nonsense.

Cities fail because people forget mayors, protocols, laws and courts, all exist for them, not the other way round. They fail when citizens put up their feet, with beer in hand and watch TV while the villains are outside, preaching revolution to their kids, when good-for-nothings are slinging dope and whoring about unchallenged. They don't fail because of bad policy. They fail when we don't lynch the marxist bastitches while we can, and they go on to become policymakers.
Posted by: Dron66046   2021-06-17 22:52  

#12  City
Civitas
Civil civilized civilization civility

These USED TO BE associated with urbanism.

No one familiar with American urban life over the last 60 years with associate any of these values or institutions with America's large cities.

Detroit - Baltimore - Chicago - NE DC - West Philly - the Bronx - South Central LA: these are places where the opposite of civility & civilization hold sway.

Brutality, intolerance, savagery, animal instincts, Floydism: these are what have characterized urban life in the above and many other US cities during the last 60 years
Posted by: Count Galeazzo Ghibelline6783   2021-06-17 22:17  

#11  Urbanists are a variety of leftist. They will never argue honestly.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-06-17 22:09  

#10  the time between that and fall harvest, were often filled with keen adventures (raiding, pillaging, and looting)
The Wakandians restarted the keen adventures back in the Spring of 2020 and haven't stopped...2021 just smaller groups of Mob Looters, different cities
Posted by: Phasing Dingle9449   2021-06-17 21:33  

#9  Back in ancient times, after you planted the crop in the spring, the time between that and fall harvest, were often filled with keen adventures (raiding, pillaging, and looting).
Posted by: Procopius2k   2021-06-17 20:48  

#8  ^Some examples to support your thesis, Crawford-sama?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-06-17 17:29  

#7  [i]Art, Science, Technology all come from cities.[/i]

They come from not having to spend your whole life producing food -- for which a city is not a prerequisite.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2021-06-17 17:27  

#6  ^ OK. But, not being much of a farmer, I'll take the suburbs.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2021-06-17 13:29  

#5  ^So don't say "Urbanism doesn't work". Say "American cities become liberal hellholes".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-06-17 12:46  

#4  Not if there is instability.

They come from successful agriculture, and you'll notice most large cities began as tiny spots where water power could be harnessed to grind grain, or a good port to fish from. The rest, being places where precious resources could be easily harvested, such as salt farms or copper.

Stable population centers, universities, have the proper conditions for people to tinker. Unstable cities cause problems. Big problems. War. Authoritarianism. Genocide. Whatever it takes to keep The City functioning. The unstable City seems to produce that trio with a mid of instability is opportunity.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2021-06-17 12:44  

#3  Urbanism is a total failure. Move to the country.

Art, Science, Technology all come from cities.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2021-06-17 11:58  

#2  Say it with me: "Urbanism is a total failure. Move to the country."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2021-06-17 11:17  

#1  Why Our Cities Fail

They 'fail' for the same reason Rhodesia failed.
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-06-17 02:10  

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