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Philadelphia’s Fall: A Microcosm of Democrat Devastation

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Posted By: PeterWolosin, 5/10/2021 8:33:23 AM

Large American cities, the vast majority of which are run entirely by Democrats, are deteriorating before our eyes; and the phenomenon is not due to the COVID pandemic. New York City is in rapid decay, reverting to its pre-Rudolph Giuliani condition as Mayor Bill DeBlasio is more concerned about wokeness and virtue-signaling than he is about effectively running the city’s government. In San Francisco and Los Angeles, homelessness is out of control, their treasuries are effectively broke, and residents have been fleeing in record numbers. And in Portland, Mayor Ted Wheeler has stood by as riots have been ravaging the city

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I lived in Philadelphia for three years in the late-1990s. It's a beautiful city, with so much to offer. What's happening there is a shame, and no different from every other blue city in the country.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Dodge Boy 5/10/2021 8:50:12 AM (No. 780571)
Even my former home town of Denver, what was once a very lovely city and historically regarded as the oil & gas cow town of the west has declined. The homeless are everywhere now. Graffiti is common. Drug pushers are many. Drug syringes litter the ground in front of the state capitol and civic center. Trash blowing around on the streets. Dirt and filth on the sidewalks. The 16th Street Mall sidewalks smell of urine. Denver is on the same path as Philly. Another dim failure.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: sw penn 5/10/2021 8:50:36 AM (No. 780572)
Up is hard and costly. Down is easy and profitable, for some.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: reefdiver 5/10/2021 8:51:07 AM (No. 780574)
Sadly, the country will follow if Dems are allowed to expand their control.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: Clinger 5/10/2021 9:29:11 AM (No. 780627)
What's going to happen when there are no productive places left to plunder? They have destroyed our cities are well on their way to destroying several states all the while getting hand outs from everybody else. Soon there will be no everybody else. Venezuela here we come.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: Attila DiMedici 5/10/2021 9:36:11 AM (No. 780637)
The author makes one error: the voters in Philadelphia can no longer correct the situation, Philadelphia's elections are fixed.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: Maggie2u 5/10/2021 9:38:38 AM (No. 780643)
Add Seattle to the list. A once pretty nice little city now littered with feces, needles and homeless. How long can a civilization survive when there are supposedly intelligent people in charge who want to make it legal to burglarize homes? There are council members who have advocated for this. How soon will rape, murder or bank robbery be legal?
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Reply 7 - Posted by: red1066 5/10/2021 10:56:38 AM (No. 780738)
Like any major city, Philly had it's areas one just didn't go into. Now, those areas include much of the city. I still attend Phillies games, because I can get off I-95 right into the stadium parking lots, and get right back on I-95 when the game is over. Other than crossing the street to and from the parking lots, which is the most dangerous part of the trip, I don't come in contact with downtown that much anymore.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 5/10/2021 12:35:21 PM (No. 780882)
They destroy everything that they touch. Merde Touch, the opposite of Midas Touch.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: zephyrgirl 5/10/2021 12:54:00 PM (No. 780911)
Like #1, I've watched Denver go downhill steadily for the past 25 years. I used to meet friends down there frequently for breakfast, lunch or dinner, or go to concerts and live performances, but not anymore. Favorite restaurants are closing, and the place is downright scary with the homeless wandering around. I have been downtown once in the past year. It isn't worth getting accosted (at best) or mugged (at worst). A friend was accosted in her car during the day and one of her friends was held up at gunpoint in broad daylight.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: udanja99 5/10/2021 1:46:55 PM (No. 780968)
I went to college in Philly 1971-1975. Those were the years leading up to the Bicentennial and the city was being renovated and rejuvenated for the upcoming celebration. It was a wonderful time to be there and a time when I (small white woman) could walk home alone safely from my bar tending job at 2am in Center City. I wouldn’t get within 50 miles of the place now.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: MickTurn 5/10/2021 4:43:53 PM (No. 781096)
Filthydelphia is a SCHIFFT HOLE, it's been that way for many years!
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Strike3 5/10/2021 7:50:06 PM (No. 781264)
Philadelphia single-handedly bought Biden his "win" last November and was a big factor in installing Barry Soetoro in the White House. Pittsburgh usually also goes blue due to their decades-old devotion to the union mafia. Those two cities are NOT Pennsylvania. No, democrats will not relate their tax and spend politics to the dire condition of their cities until the feds stop bailing them out. States and cities need to live on their own income, not the income of the states and cities that do it better. This also means that the fed needs to be cut way down in size but since they control their own destiny the size of bloated government will continue to grow.
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