The City is Killing America

Nothing new under the sun. In the summer of 1793 Philadelphia suffered through the yellow fever epidemic and then, as now, they did not know how to fight it and the rich fled the city. And guess what. the Dr's fought over the best treatments for the disease. Dr Rush well respected as he was, basically bled his patients to death. The connection to the mosquito was not made for 20 yrs.

Statistical distribution. Mean free path. Not news.

Move those Federal Agencies out of DC. It would broaden the Economic base of second tier cities and provide jobs for the middle class outside of the DC area. Corruption in Government needs to be addressed and not tolerated. Severe penalties for transgressions! This can be done, but the 'Elites' will disrupt and fight dirty against any change that dilutes their control and power. In the end the People will prevail.

Must read! A brilliant article daring to state the obvious we have been hiding from. "Urbanization has become a pyramid scheme taking over entire states, while hollowing out the more conservative rural areas, turning red states blue, and leaving everyone except those at the top of the pyramid scheme poorer with each generation." I would add that this is why we are a constitutional republic not a democracy. These failed urban areas have way too much power as it is. If we were a democracy the rest of us would be enslaved, it's too close as it is.

"The general pattern was historically familiar from the Middle Ages, and the only thing that our public health experts proved is that they weren’t any smarter than medieval peasants." This is a critical point about the so called "experts". They are not creative people coming up with solutions that actually work. They are fossilized bureaucrats that rise by following the accepted rules and regulations and most of all practicing CYA policies. "it’s been a long time since cities were generating American achievements. ... Their only real business anymore is the business of government." Dem/Leftist/Socialist government. Government that when implemented anywhere leads to misery and failure. The only reason the cities survive is by leaching off the success of the rest of the Country. Further, the cities are hotbeds of rigid control, corruption, massive ego, and lies. "political powerhouses ... that power is based on trapping the descendants of black factory workers in urban wastelands, attracting immigrants they can’t employ, and using raw numbers to seize power." How evil and Machiavellian (centered on manipulativeness, callousness, and indifference to morality) is this? They are capturing people and psychologically manipulating them to submit to inhumane conditions with the promises of "help" that is never delivered because it cannot be and to do so would eliminate the need for their masters. The outcome is "the inevitable outbreaks of violence by people living dead end lives in miserable conditions". "The underlying failure of the city isn’t social, it’s economic." There is no economic justification for most people to live in a city. There aren't enough jobs to support them. In addition, liberals have destroyed education to make people unqualified to hold a job and programmed by propaganda to be compliant to the liberal agenda. The monstrous thing is, the dems, who preach endlessly about their concern for the poor and "working man", are the architects of this misery. They designed it, regulate it, and reinforce it minute by minute.

The Cities..... I stay away from them as much as is possible. Dangerous, dirty, crowded, no parking - for me, no reason to go 99.9% of the time. The last time I went to KC downtown was a Christmas music event in the excellent Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, a relatively new, modern music venue in KC. That was about 6 years ago. I was holding tickets for a musical performance there when the Wuhan flu got it cancelled.