[Paradigms and Demographics] I've spent the bulk of my adult life in the Cleveland, Ohio area, and I love it here and I've loved Cleveland with all its ups and downs, but things have changed dramatically since 1965 when the population in Cleveland was 1,875,000. As of July of 2022 it was 361,607. Whites make up only 38% of the population, blacks 47% and are still granted minority status, and has the power in Cleveland’s administration.
Violent crime in Cleveland is 17.4 per 1000. In all of Ohio it's only 3.76 and nationwide it's 4. And let’s face it, crime statistics clearly show those crimes are mostly being committed by blacks, most of them the product of illegitimacy. In America's major cities, this is the pattern throughout America.
Democrats are in charge in Cleveland, and in any city in which they're in charge they're driving these cities in a massively destructive direction. Improved race relations are in the dumpster, and rampant anti-white racism is rampant, for which Barack Obama and the Democrat party are directly responsible.
In 1965 illegitimacy in black America was 24% and 3% in white America. In 1990 it was 64 percent for blacks and 18 percent for whites. In black America it’s now around 70%, and around 30% for white America. That's an obscene voluntary abandonment of men to their responsibilities, and a unbelievable and active acceptance by the women. That’s massively destructive, and that destructiveness is spreading. That’s an abandonment of all the foundational values that create stable societies.
While there’s been efforts to restore Cleveland's neighborhoods, that required tearing down entire sections of the city to put up new buildings. As of right now, entire sections of Cleveland are either vacant lots with everything torn down, or have blocks of empty buildings, businesses and homes, that are rat infested holes surrounded by slums. And surrounding suburbs are equally impacted by all this, such as East Cleveland, which is a disaster.
Driving down Euclid Avenue, Cleveland's main street, once known as "Millionaires' Row", is deceptive. Go a few blocks to the left or right, and reality sets in.
How can you revive any major city if the inhabitants live in a culture that’s undisciplined, irresponsible, refuse to be educated, and violent? One in which a huge percentage of the inhabitants of the city think that’s just fine and dandy.
I don't think that's possible because they've abandoned all the Judaic/Christian values that make a society stable. If there is no stable moral foundation for a society, there is no stability, and then society becomes a mob.
The worst mayors in the nation? In 2021 Daniel Greenfield listed 14 of them, and they were all black, and/or far left lunatics, but they were all Democrats, and each and everyone of them were race baiting hustlers shouting America is institutionally racist, among other things, but clearly they all hate America and are destroying the cities they lead, or led.
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Given all the racial politics, their voter plantation complexes aka Ghettos, easy to get Gov. $$$$$ for illegitimate births, SNAP benefits, Welfare, the get of Jail Free card for certain racial and pervert groups and etc...
In 56 years, the Liberal, Socialists and Democrats (LSD's) have done a job, STALIN would be proud of.
By appearing to fight while actually promoting:
crime, murder, placing fundamentally opposed groups next to each other, promoting Racial pride over a the US Melt-Pot process. Then using Gun Control as the solution place them ONLY in charge of your safety which usually 15 to 90 mins away.
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Cities have got to have a purpose. That's how they were founded. The lands west of the Mississippi are littered with ghost towns. Grafting is not known as a viable basis for sustainment. Eventually the host dies.
Commerce was the purpose. Culture was the dividend. The savvy businessmen have move their pursuits to more amenable locations. The culture dividend stopped when the businesses left.
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and Cher is nominated for the Rock and Roll HOF. Cher.
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04/05/2024 11:44 Comments ||
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Not sure how a 2021 worst mayor list missed DiBlassio.
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...but things have changed dramatically since 1965...
That's when Lyndon Johnson was president. Some might question if old LBJ had anything to do with the way "things have changed dramatically".
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...it was called the Great Society. Drive off decades of black fathers and solid family units circa 1960. Grow generation of voters for free stuff. All around the 'immortal' city. Power by any means necessary.
That was their mistake thinking that the city drove everything. Soon the highways and suburbs started to bleed the economic attraction of those cities. Manufacturing was driven out or left. The reason to exist diminished. There's an old story from the West. Boomtowns that grew along the cattle trails north. Soon the 'best folk' got tired of the antics and behavior of the cowpokes and regulated them out. The trails shifted elsewhere or the rail lines took the freight. Those towns died. You are seeing that played out in slow motion now.
If you rely upon moving paper for a business, you can do that anywhere. If that goes digital you don't need a 'where'.
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Yes, the Great Society: HUD, AFDC, Headstart, Affirmative Action, Vietnam and all of that. Dunno if it's true but I read somewhere about LBJ boasting how he'd have black people voting Democrat for the next 200 years. I believe it because that's the kind of guy he was...immoral to the core. Only one thing was important to that man and that was power. This country went off the rails in 1963. We had a brief respite in the 1980s when Ronald Reagan was president but today the decline continues. A lot of people running around in DC are every bit as unscrupulous as LBJ. It seems to me the decline has been accelerated by our dependence on China.
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1965. The great project to "modernize" the roads by gutting the functioning middle class sections of the Big Cities and replacing neighborhoods with overhead roads. The central multiethnic neighborhoods were replaced by slums and bare lots.
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Not at all impossible. But the doing will be ugly until the usual suspects come to terms with the new rules. New York City did under Mayor Giuliano, after all.
BLUF:
[Federalist] The people are friendly, like those of any midwestern small town. They are quick to share their ambivalence about the village’s future. While strongly committed to their hometown and its people and institutions, many feel like they have received the short end of the stick. No, it certainly didn't start with Biden, but that's where it's headed.
This is understandable because that’s what has happened time and time again.
In addition to the community being ground zero for an entirely avoidable chemical catastrophe that has imperiled the health of many and will likely continue to do so for generations, East Palestine — and countless other places like it — has been strip-mined by the prevailing ethos of the American ruling class. Prioritizing financialization over domestic manufacturing, the industrial engine of small-town America was shipped abroad piece by piece until virtually nothing was left.
Whatever feelings one might have about free trade, NAFTA, et al., the objective reality is that it left the heartland without a vital resource upon which millions of people and thousands of communities depended. Chinese batteries, charging stations, and automobiles anyone ?
#2
Union leadership does not represent its members. It represents the Party. You think union membership gets to really vote for who their leadership is any more legit than the general citizenship population for our 'leadership'.
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And when the leadership got them higher pay, the membership rejected it "it'll cause the compony to offshore." Sorry P2K, but much as I hate MBAs - I had to teach them math for a living - the labor is just as guilty.
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It's about power hierarchy. Yeah, the membership gets screwed (just like the rest of us), but the hierarchy remains in place. The 'leadership' gets to move to another another entity to leach off of for the 'union'. Administrators whether in the union or company are more inclined to mobility than the work force.
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That's point of the article. Ruling class made it easy to 'move overseas'. That's why there really is no 'free trade', someone pays in the end. The Ruling Class doesn't calculate that the displaced workers and facilities paid taxes to feed their system. From assets to liabilities as welfare rolls expand in their model. Unfortunately, the tremors from that unsustainable model is now here. That's the big trade off, pay more for goods and service and keep people employed or pay less and fund welfare for people who would otherwise be kept busy.
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I believe the coming troubles overseas particularly in China will bring manufacturing back home at least in part. I think it will return to red states in rural areas with decent logistic access. I am an optimist.
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[Paradigms and Demographics] I've spent the bulk of my adult life in the Cleveland, Ohio area, and I love it here and I've loved Cleveland with all its ups and downs, but things have changed dramatically since 1965 when the population in Cleveland was 1,875,000. As of July of 2022 it was 361,607. Whites make up only 38% of the population, blacks 47% and are still granted minority status, and has the power in Cleveland’s administration. 
