It's Time To Take Back America's Cities
We don't have to accept this
New York City is poised to elect a communist Muslim as mayor.
Los Angeles is a cesspool of walking zombies, human waste and crime.
San Francisco is a progressive hell that has all but expelled children from its city limits while becoming a mecca of sexual perversion and socialist torture.
Austin has a homeless epidemic to rival Los Angeles.
Chicago’s socialist mayors have turned it into a den of thieves and illegal aliens.
Detroit is…Detroit. Always Detroit.
Name a major American city that isn’t steeped in crime and degradation and I’ll show you a city that isn’t run by Democrats.
Are there any major cities that are not currently plagued by homelessness, crime and illegal alien madness? If you know of any, please drop them in the comments in case some of my fellow Californians need to find real estate agents. There are a lot of us looking to escape right now (not me, I’m here until the Lord says otherwise).
Since the Obama administration, it has become quite clear that the divide in this nation isn’t left versus right, but rural versus urban. The cultural fences between urban and ex-urban living have become so high over the decades, we can hardly see each other over the top.
I saw this interesting post on X today and it really made me think.
Even our entertainment industry has asserted this cultural divide by erasing the public windows into rural life. One need only look at any modern movie or show that stoops to portray a rural family or character. Those people are always quaint and naive - noble savages in the best of light. Pure racist, toothless hillbillies at worst.
And we’ve all just kind of accepted it. Sure, we shake our heads and lament “how things used to be.” We curse Democrats and the homeless industrial complex and progressive lunatics running our cities. We encourage each other to move away, escape, find greener (redder?) pastures.
We shout, “The cities are lost!” Then we look to the suburbs and rural counties to win elections.
But something happened last November. The impossible suddenly became possible, and we were introduced to a version of America in which we, the people don’t have to accept the status quo. We were introduced to a little thing called…action.
Perhaps it is time to take another look at our urban centers, and reevaluate what is happening there. Do we really need to just accept they are lost? Do we really have to concede this ground forever?
I say, no.
Certainly, wrestling back America’s great cities is an uphill battle. It may look downright impossible in some places, but I have not been able to forget President Trump’s inspiring words at his inauguration last January:
“In America, the impossible is what we do best.”
I refuse to accept that our cities just belong to the lunatic left now. I refuse to accept that the greatest urban centers on earth - New York City, Los Angeles, Chicago, etc. - must be left to degradation and socialism. If right-wing America believes we can continue to win the future by conceding the cities and focusing on rural areas, we’ve got another thing coming.
The strategy to liberate our cities will be multifold and span years. It will take a bottom-to-top effort, aided by some key players at the top, in key areas of American politics. It can be done with the right leaders and the political will.
The progressives did it. Why can’t we?
Now is a time for change. We are changing a lot in this country right now. Let’s change our cities too.
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One big challenge will be a visionary and planner on the right. We are often small thinkers in terms of two year election cycles. The left is willing to bide their time and work for decades. And they always have the legislation written and in a drawer somewhere ready to use when the moment arrives! The devastation of the cities and who caused it should be an easy sell. Why can't we make that case?
When I talk to "normal" people who say they are democrats, I keep asking them to to tell me when the republicans (MAGA in their minds) last controlled California and most of its major cities?