Now on Ch 8 - Baltimore - City in Crisis

[Anonymous]

It’s a Town Hall. Elected Baltimore politicians don’t even show up. But tons of outraged citizens are there.

[Anonymous]

I should have put “Baltimore - A City in Crisis” in quotes. It’s the name of the program. -OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s a Town Hall. Elected Baltimore politicians don’t even show up. But tons of outraged citizens are there.

What the republicans have done to Baltimore is absolutely shameful. Decades of republicans in every single elected office in the city, a total one party system from the republican mayor right down the republican alderman of the smallest ward in the city. Republicans everywhere, controlling everything. If a democrat could get elected, it might disrupt the cycle and provide some new ideas... but it'll never happen. The republicans have a stranglehold on the voters through all the social programs they've pushed on residents, which have made them dependent on those republicans. They'll never vote for a democrat. They can't risk it!




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[Anonymous]

Baltimore should do something different and actually vote Republican.

“What have you got to lose?”

Can their lives get any worse?

Insanity:
Doing the same thing and expecting different results.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s a Town Hall. Elected Baltimore politicians don’t even show up. But tons of outraged citizens are there.

What the republicans have done to Baltimore is absolutely shameful. Decades of republicans in every single elected office in the city, a total one party system from the republican mayor right down the republican alderman of the smallest ward in the city. Republicans everywhere, controlling everything. If a democrat could get elected, it might disrupt the cycle and provide some new ideas... but it'll never happen. The republicans have a stranglehold on the voters through all the social programs they've pushed on residents, which have made them dependent on those republicans. They'll never vote for a democrat. They can't risk it!




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Lol. And yet the Baltimore residents got incredibly incensed when there was discussion about how horrible Baltimore has become.

First step in fixing a problem is to recognize it and admit that it needs to be addressed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Baltimore should do something different and actually vote Republican.

“What have you got to lose?”

Can their lives get any worse?

Insanity:
Doing the same thing and expecting different results.

This is why there needs to be balance. I tell my kid this all the time with regards to politics.

Go too far in either direction (left or right) and it’s not good.

[Anonymous]

Do Republicans not run? What are their ideas?

[Anonymous]

All of the democratic controlled cities are cess pits.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do Republicans not run? What are their ideas?

They do.

City is 2/3s AA.

In other words, shrugs.

The problem isn't so much Republican versus Democrats but that everyone knows what the solutions are but no one is willing to take the route because it'd require substantial violations of civil rights laws. You could solve Baltimore's crime problems overnight by turning the city into a military patrolled zone, with military bases and tanks patrolling the streets. And then bring in sweeping dictatorial powers to seize large swathes of lands via eminent domain and bulldoze everything to create large new land parcels for redevelopment via special economic zones not subject to the city's taxation structure, forcibly break up neighborhoods and move people out to make this happen, and do something comparable to the schools, probably creating a two zoned school district, one for the better parts of town to revive middle class interest, and the other for the ghetto areas with its dysfunctional problems. You'd need unelected leaders with wide sweeping powers to make major decisions and who aren't answerable to city voters.

Baltimore represents the extreme end of the failures of democracy when people consistently vote via special interests (race, class, ideologies) rather than for the community good. And because of this, nothing meaningful can happen in Baltimore via the government. The private sector is left to try to improve things on its own, and it has been doing that in parts of the city. But it can't work in the majorly deprived areas. The voters are more content to blame the racism bogeyman than address their own failures.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do Republicans not run? What are their ideas?

Never given a chance in Baltimore.

Voters are so entrenched in their views that they can’t imagine voting Republican. Which leads to even more corruption and abuse than would normally occur if there was more balance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of the democratic controlled cities are cess pits.

Which cities are run by Rs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of the democratic controlled cities are cess pits.

Which cities are run by Rs?

Cities with out-of-work blue collar opioid addicts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do Republicans not run? What are their ideas?

Never given a chance in Baltimore.

Voters are so entrenched in their views that they can’t imagine voting Republican. Which leads to even more corruption and abuse than would normally occur if there was more balance.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of the democratic controlled cities are cess pits.

Which cities are run by Rs?

Cities with out-of-work blue collar opioid addicts.

Sounds like Baltimore to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of the democratic controlled cities are cess pits.

Which cities are run by Rs?

Cities with out-of-work blue collar opioid addicts.

Sounds like Baltimore to me.

Ouch.