Comments on: Chicago voters must think the city is doing just fine…

By: Cappy

Cappy — Sat, 08 Apr 2023 13:40:03 +0000

Forget it Neo, it’s Chicago.

By: Faith2014

Faith2014 — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 22:54:34 +0000

One thing to keep in mind is enthusiasm. I live in a distant suburb of Chicago and almost forgot to vote on Tuesday. Normally I early vote so I get it over with, but somehow I lost track of time. My city had someone with money and connections run for mayor. I liked the incumbent. But people who want ‘change’ are more motivated to vote. I was lukewarm about voting, but I view it as a serious civic duty.

But most people who liked the incumbent probably didn’t place voting high on their list of things to do.

Same thing is likely in Chicago. Say what you will about CTU, the teachers, and the people associated with them, but they are motivated.

By: Art Deco

Art Deco — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 20:01:09 +0000

The Chicago election, just as the decline of Detroit, is racial politics.
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The black share of Chicago’s population is declining. It was larger when Richard Daley fils was racking up large majorities. The sum of (non-hispanic) whites, Orientals, and East Indians has seen only small change since 1990. Johnson’s not hispanic. Have a gander at the racial composition of Ilhan Omar’s district or Ayanna Pressley’s district. Recall that Omar in 2020 defeated a black lawyer in a primary who had old liberal views. Racial politics is a factor, but it’s mostly just wanting to see the world burn. The question is, how is it that this is so common among people born after 1980. Twenty-five years ago, the political affiliation of young voters was similar to that of the generic voter. What happened?

By: boot55555

boot55555 — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 12:43:39 +0000

We know one thing. Chicago always has fair elections.

What?

By: John Fisher

John Fisher — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 10:27:13 +0000

I’m pretty sure Brandon Johnson got elected based on the votes of the really old. The ones that ‘voted Republican until the day they died and have voted Democratic ever since’.

By: John Witten

John Witten — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 03:55:59 +0000

Constitutional conservatives, and indeed all who pray for the return of the American democratic recovery, should welcome Johnson’s close win over a leftist pretending somewhat less progressive values. Chicago, like Detroit, San Francisco, Minneapolis and other Democrat run cities, id dying. There was and is zero chance that Chicagoans will wake up in time to prevent that death.

First, that rescue would require a top-to-bottom overhaul of a political machine that has existed for the lifetimes of most Chicagoans. Merely electing a phenom like a municipal Trump would change little and would end-up convincing voters that “there is no difference between Rs and Ds.

Second, mega-cities like Chicago are de-evolving after a centuries long run. Technology has rendered the practical reasons that caused the rapid growth of cities since the beginning of the Modern Era nugatory. Cities, like Chicago, are deadmen walking.

I lived in Chicago for five years as a student and loved many parts of it – it truly was “magnificent” but even then it was living on an inertia that was, to use the in vogue term, “unsustainable.”

Real progress is always a destructive process and efforts to slow that destruction end up merely prolonging it and magnifying its costs. Progressivism is almost entirely an urban construct.Both Chicagoan and the rest of us will be better off when Chicago and its ilk are allowed to de-evolve. We can only hope that this will occur before the Progressive disease kills us all .

By: JJ

JJ — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 03:29:01 +0000

Democracy works best when you have informed voters. With the way the news media works today, very few are informed. The Izvestiya (news) is all slanted and there is little Pravda (truth) in the news.

So, we see how democracy dies. The voters think the know what they’re doing, but they’re really following a script that has been prepared for them by the ruling elites.

By: GRA

GRA — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 02:55:16 +0000

I voted for the other guy.

>young voters

It’s just Chicago residents being Chicago residents: stupid – and young. Johnson was endorsed by Bernie Sanders so the young probably saw that and said “he’s my guy.”

“Scott Adams has good advice. Stay away from Chicago.”

I’m not sure if he said stay away from Chicago. He did say stay from blacks.

By: Rcat

Rcat — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 01:35:21 +0000

“Meet the new boss… Same as the old boss.”

By: Mike K

Mike K — Thu, 06 Apr 2023 00:58:42 +0000

I think that Detroit is making something of a slow comeback, and the racial politics have been subsiding.

I hope so. The whites and the middle class blacks headed for the suburbs and I understand they are OK. My daughter was in the last class of the fiscal year at the FBI Academy and wound up in Detroit. It took her 7 years to get out and only a new SAC who did not know the territory let her escape. It was an interesting assignment,.