Chicago Mayor Blames Shootings Across City....on Richard Nixon?!?

[Webster]

In Other News...Chicago Mayor Blames Chicago Shootings on Richard Nixon

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Chicago used to be an impressive city, but its citizens have chosen to follow Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, and San Francisco into a totally preventable death spiral.

To Chicago's credit, the citizens did dump Lori Lightfoot--an equally awful mayor--and almost 48% voted against Brandon Johnson for mayor.

Johnson won on the backs of the public sector unions, without whom he would have been soundly defeated. It is a classic example of the government vs. the people. When the government gets big enough, it becomes the largest special interest group in society and beating it back becomes almost impossible.

There are nearly 60,000 public employees working for the city and the public school system, and probably a ton more who work for the state, the county, and the federal government. That is a HUGE voting bloc and a high-propensity one at that. I wouldn't be surprised if 25-30% of Johnson's votes came from that bloc alone. Throw in the AWFLs and the identity voters and you don't have enough practical people left to vote in a sane mayor.

So instead, Chicago has a mayor who can say--almost crying from despair--that mass murder in Chicago is the result of Richard Nixon's election in 1968....

Looping Chi-Iraq in with Detroit, a city at least trying to climb back from its' ashes, is a bit of an insultive stretch but at this point - and I say this with the utmost respect for the board's resident Chicagoan @KenDaGamer - but a nuke could go off in Chi-Town and I suspect a sizeable chunk of America would look at the mushroom cloud, shrug and keep going....

 

[Dead2009]

of course a Democratic Chicago mayor would place the blame on a dead guy as to why murder is up in his city.

 

[DrLeftover]

They can't admit that they have a crime problem that has exploded under the state democratic party's "no cash bail (let the bad guys go home)" policy.

 

[Webster]

They can't admit that they have a crime problem that has exploded under the state democratic party's "no cash bail (let the bad guys go home)" policy.

And I used to support that....