Take a look at the eight other cities that beat Baltimore on Orkin’s
rattiest cities list. What do they all have in common? We’ll, let’s see:
Chicago hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1931. Philadelphia last
saw a Republican mayor in 1952, Detroit in 1962. San Francisco has been
Democrat-controlled since 1964. Washington, D.C., has never had a
Republican mayor.
In Los Angeles, Democrats have run the city in all but eight of the
past 58 years, in New York, it’s eight in the past 74 (not counting John
Lindsay, who switched parties while in office). Cleveland’s been run by
Democrats in all but 16 of the past 78 years.
Indeed, if you want to see what liberal Democratic policies tend to
produce, go to any one of those cities, or other Democratic strongholds.
Democrats promise to help the poor and downtrodden, grow the middle
class, make life more fair. But their policies consistently produce the opposite.
These cities are rife with crime. Baltimore ranks No. 1 for robberies
and No. 2 for murders. Many of the other rat-infested cities also rank
high for violent crimes. Their infrastructure is crumbling. The middle
class has largely abandoned them.
And far from tackling inequality, Democrats have made it worse.
Washington, San Francisco and New York are all in the top 10 for biggest
income inequality levels, according to the Brookings Institution. Other Democrat cities — Providence, Miami, Boston, New Orleans — are also on the list.
Washington, San Francisco, New York, Detroit, and Cleveland are also among the 10 worst-run cities, according to WalletHub. Three other Democratic strongholds — Oakland, Flint, Hartford — make WalletHub’s worst-run list.
America is nothing if it is not about seeing how a presumptive candidate handles all the hyenas and how he fleshes out his positions and promises in response. America is entitled to form its opinion and express it in the form of actual votes taken at actual primary elections in actual places, like Iowa. What matters is representative democracy selecting the candidate, not the punditocracy.
