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"Progressive thinking on urban violence is so unrealistic it is dystopian."
Summary and audio linked here.
Chicago’s political leadership is floating a pension buyout program as evidence it is seriously addressing the city’s thirty-six-billion-dollar unfunded pension liability, but Mark Glennon, founder of the Illinois policy research organization Wirepoints, said that the proposal moves debt from one column to another rather than reducing it, and that the broader fiscal picture facing the city continues to deteriorate across every measurable dimension. Audio here.
Expect no retraction or apology. This what they do.
The state’s existing buyout program for its own pensions is the precedent for Chicago, which should be a warning: Look out for similar exaggerated claims and shoddy analysis.
Full interview and summary linked here.
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Last week I saw a cartoon in a California newspaper. The caption read, “Teenage fun – then and now.” The left panel had a cow tipped over. The right panel had a car tipped over and the license plate read CHICAGO. Now granted it was likely a syndicated cartoon, but nevertheless when California of all places is ridiculing crime in Chicago that’s pretty pathetic.
As the New Mayor said, they were just having some fun.
Most voters either explicitly or implicitly condone this behavior; that is why it is allowed to continue. The mob of wildings is the city; the city is hardly more than a mob of wildings. The rest of us live outside of the city because we don’t tolerate this nonsense.
Sadly, most registered voters don’t vote. Slightly more than 31% in the recent mayoral election. Guess the folks who voted for Johnson approve of this behavior.
They must. Johnson campaigned on exactly this sort of stuff, and so for he’s said he will do exactly what he promised he would in his campaign. And, as you say, over 60% of Chicago’s registered voters didn’t even vote at all, even though there were big differences in what the candidates were promising they’d do as mayor. That certainly worked to Johnson’s advantage, and the people who didn’t bother to vote knew that low voter turnout could result in someone that they really didn’t agree with becoming the mayor. That was all over the news prior to the election.… Read more »
It doesn’t matter, a majority of whites and asians voted for Vallas, barely more than half of all hispanics voted for vallas, nearly all blacks voted for BJ. Mixed race neighborhoods went heavily for BJ. Extrapolate the 31% who voted 69% who voted and the results would have been exactly the same. It’s not like there is some deep well of Vallas in the black community.
It wouldn’t have mattered if 100% had voted, BJ woulds still be mayor. Voting was almost entirely along racial lines, and extrapolating the results of the 31% to the entire registered voting population, the results would have been exactly same.
Corrected link to the article is here: https://quillette.com/2023/04/29/chicagos-criminal-irresponsibility/
And Quillette is outstanding, if you are not familiar with it. It’s brainy stuff mostly by academic authors, but free thinkers who defy groupthink.
It’s excellent, it’s one of the first on my “go – to” reading list every day… ‘Intellectual Takeout” is another good site: https://intellectualtakeout.org/ “Intellectual Takeout is a program of Charlemagne Institute, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, educational organization dedicated to defending and advancing the philosophical and spiritual foundations of Western Civilization… Like you, we are deeply troubled by the growing cultural division within America. Discussions today quickly become heated, emotional yelling matches that drive people further apart. Many of us even fear making our opinions known, lest we be ostracized, threatened, fired, or even physically assaulted. How did the land of the… Read more »
Thanks. And here’s another one I just discovered yesterday. Liberal Patriot.https://www.liberalpatriot.com/ https://www.liberalpatriot.com/ I love the concept which is that true liberals are not part of today’s progressive left. I’ve stopped calling them liberals. The modern left is illiberal to the max.
Thanks for the link! It is possible to access news that is not from Regime – approved State Media, but if you dig you can find good sources – when I discovered this site it was a revelation, so thanks for your good work in “getting the word out”…
Auto must be one of them new fangled EV’s we here so much about. Can’t (Not) wait to get one.