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发帖数: 29846 | 1 BALTIMORE IS A DEMOCRAT PROBLEM, NOT AMERICA’S PROBLEM
Apr 28, 2015
Contrary to the emotional blackmail some leftists are attempting to peddle,
Baltimore is not America’s problem or shame. That failed city is solely and
completely a Democrat problem. Like many failed cities, Detroit comes to
mind, and every city besieged recently by rioting, Democrats and their union
pals have had carte blanche to inflict their ideas and policies on
Baltimore since 1967, the last time there was a Republican Mayor.
In 2012, after four years of his own failed policies, President Obama won a
whopping 87.4% of the Baltimore City vote. Democrats run the city of
Baltimore, the unions, the schools, and, yes, the police force. Since 1969,
there have only been only been two Republican governors of the State of
Maryland.
Elijah Cummings has represented Baltimore in the U.S. Congress for more than
thirty years. As I write this, despite his objectively disastrous reign,
the Democrat-infested mainstream media is treating the Democrat like a local
folk hero, not the obvious and glaring failure he really is.
Every single member of the Baltimore city council is a Democrat.
Liberalism and all the toxic government dependence and cronyism and union
corruption and failed schools that comes along with it, has run amok in
Baltimore for a half-century, and that is Baltimore’s problem. It is the
free people of Baltimore who elect and then re-elect those who institute
policies that have so spectacularly failed that once-great city. It is the
free people of Baltimore who elected Mayor Room-To-Destroy.
You can call the arson and looting and violence we are seeing on our
television screens, rioting. That’s one way to describe the chaos. Another
way to describe it is Democrat infighting. This is blue-on-blue violence.
The thugs using the suspicious death of Freddie Gray (at the hands of a
Democrat-led police department) to justify the looting that updates their
home entertainment systems, are Democrats protesting Democrat leaders and
Democrat policies in a Democrat-run city.
Poverty has nothing to do with it. This madness and chaos and anarchy is a
Democrat-driven culture that starts at the top with a racially-divisive
White House heartbreakingly effective at ginning up hate and violence.
Where I currently reside here in Watauga County, North Carolina, the poverty
level is 31.3%. Median income is only $34,293. In both of those areas we
are much worse off than Baltimore, that has a poverty rate of only 23.8% and
a median income of $41,385.
Despite all that, we don’t riot here in Watauga County. Thankfully, we have
not been poisoned by the same left-wing culture that is rotting Baltimore,
and so many other cities like it, from the inside out. We get along
remarkably well. We are neighbors. We are people who help out one another.
We take pride in our community, and are grateful for what we do have. We are
far from perfect, but we work out our many differences in civilized ways.
Solutions are our goal, not cronyism, narcissistic victimhood, and the
blaming of others.
One attitude we don’t have here is the soul-killing belief that somebody
owes us something, which, of course, is a recipe for discontent. Because if
you’re not getting what’s owed to you, how can you be anything but angry?
Democrats and their never-ending grievance campaigns; their never-ending
propaganda that government largess is the answer; their never-ending caves
to corrupt unions; their never-ending warehousing of innocent children in
failed public schools — that’s a Democrat problem, not America’s problem.
I might believe Baltimore was an American problem if the city was interested
in new ideas and a new direction under new leaders. But we all know that
will never happen. After Democrat policies result in despair and anarchy,
Democrats always demand more of the same, only bigger.
And the media goes right along.
And things only get worse.
I wish you all the luck in the world Baltimore. And I truly wish you had the
courage to change. If you ever do, send up a flare. Until then, there is
nothing anyone can do for you. You are victims of your own choices, and no
one can make choices for you but you.
As far as the good people of Baltimore trapped by the terrible voting of
your fellow citizens, I suggest you buy more guns until you can move to a
city not run by those who see rioting as part of the Master Plan.
Michael Patrick Maloney, BSW, C.A.C, and US Army Veteran | s*********e
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