transgender ideology, critical race studies, and social and emotional learning into the curricula. No wonder hard-working middle-class families, both
Black and white, who depend on normal services — cops, open schools, well-paved roads, trash pickup, run- ning water — decamped for more functional places. The question is, why is this happening everywhere at
the same time? How is it that Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, New Orleans, and Chicago would simultaneously elect incom- petent mayors who are incapable of applying tried and true policies to combat crime? The answer is that these mayors
are not necessarily incompetent. They are Democrat politicians
pursuing purposeful policies and strategies known to raise crime rates, make cities dirtier and more dysfunctional, and push citizens who might vote against them out. Many were supported in their campaigns by George Soros-backed foundations and promulgate his chaos-inducing policies. Pushing out the middle class,
McKay argues that middle class citizens fight to keep
things working, which requires that the tax dollars they provide be spent on services. No real opportunity for graft there. In the face of dirty, dangerous streets they will vote
Why would a mayor want to see his city trashed? Because it’s easier than making things work, and it provides many more opportunities for corruption.
which will demand services or vote them out, makes a certain kind of sense. Scott McKay, editor of the Louisiana blog The Hay-
ride, refers to this phenomenon as “weaponized govern- mental failure.” The failure to govern well is deliberate. Strategic, even. Why would a mayor want to see his city trashed?
Because it’s easier than making things work, and it pro- vides many more opportunities for corruption. It will push out the middle class and leave behind the
easily governed.
looking like a sure winner, with escalating violent crime not just in low-income Black neighborhoods but also on the Miracle Mile, whose nicer stores were trashed during the 2020 looting with no arrests. In 2021, 797 people were murdered, a number unseen for 25 years. She has aggressive, George Soros-
supported District Attorney Kimberly Foxx to ensure that no one does time for any crime. Lightfoot is happy to fling charges of racism at anyone who crosses her. Her governing strategy is clearly deliberate.
for other, more functional candidates, including Repub- licans. So, politicians who want to stay in office indefi- nitely are happy to push middle class citizens and their businesses out of the city, regardless of the economic costs. The wealthy will provide extra
security in their own enclaves and send their children to private schools. So, they can stay. And the poor and dependent take
what they’re given. They may want, but won’t demand, better services, crime prevention, and schools to lift their children into the middle class. They vote in low numbers. They
are the perfect constituency for poli- ticians who wish to hold power for- ever while accomplishing nothing constructive. Academically, this strategy is known as the “Curley effect.” Named
by Harvard professors Edward Glaeser and Andrei Shle- ifer after former four-time Boston Mayor James Curley, who pioneered the strategy of pushing out the middle class to stay in office longer in the early 20th century, it is not new. It fundamentally relies on shaping the electorate to
increase one’s natural base along ethnic or class lines. In the end, the politician will do what it takes to keep
his base poor lest their views shift with upward mobility. This explains a lot about why the Black urban under- class does not become better off over time.
But New York is catching up fast. Under
former Sandinista supporter Mayor Bill de Blasio, the city reversed the great public safety that Rudy Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg had created in the ’90s and early 2000s. The city’s public transportation is now
dangerous, especially for women. Streets are filthy, and violent crime is up 26%. No surprise that the city has lost 337,000 residents since 2020. Enter a new mayor, former
FOXX
NYPD oficer Eric Adams, who ran on promises to fix these
problems. Perhaps he thought he could. But he was elected alongside a new district attorney, Alvin Bragg, who is Soros- backed and seems reluctant to jail anyone. Bail “reform” laws hinder even
moderate judges from keeping career criminals in jail, and the unelected governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, won’t reverse them. The city is facing a spiraling economic
downturn, and 9.5% of NYC school children have not returned to the public schools since they reopened. This presages a long-term employment, crime, and welfare disaster. — L.S.
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