If there is ever another civil war in the United States, it will be between the largest urban areas versus the rest of us.
Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Chicago, Atlanta, New York, and Baltimore are the first to come to mind.
Based on a combination of my own insights and a little help of AI, here is why the largest cities tend blue, leftist, progressive, and have major, pardon the expression, large shit-hole neighborhoods, enclaves, ghettos, and radical elements.
1. Business and commerce have thrived in a compact urban environments due to close proximity of supporting resources. This is in the process of change with new communications technologies, but it is the primary cause for the large size of cities we now have.
2. The large, dense populations require more infrastructure, regulations, and service to meet the demands of the larger population. This means larger budgets and much higher taxes.
3. The increases in population and building densities cause property values to skyrocket, increasing housing and other building costs.
4. More services and more taxes require more social service and higher taxes in an end cycle of more services and higher taxes.
5. These additional social services in turn attract more people in need of these social services, thus the outsized homeless populations.
These cities attract demographic diversity. (This part is from a left leaning AI which I temper a bit back to reality.)
Cities are melting pots. They attract younger, more diverse populations—ethnically, culturally, and economically. These groups often support progressive policies on immigration, civil rights, and social services.
Educational Attainment: Urban areas typically have higher concentrations of college-educated residents, who statistically lean more liberal on social and environmental issues.
Economic Structure: Cities are hubs for industries like tech, media, education, and the arts—sectors that often foster progressive values and prioritize innovation, inclusion, and regulation over deregulation.
No! Diversity is NOT our strength. It occasionally has some narrow benefits, but it is not a strength. Melting pots? Not so much nowadays. The incompatibles and radicals increasingly want to spread their jaded joy to the rest of the population.
True, there are more left-wing college-indoctrinated specialists in cities. This education might further their chosen profession, but socially and politically they have been trained to become morons.
Economically, cities tend much more toward socialism and regulation, over-whelming any perceived sense of innovation or individual freedoms.
This brings me to the question: Why do large cities tend to tolerate lawlessness, destruction, and riots?
In short: Diversity, progressive (leftist) values, and radical influences that the cities have attracted, endorse, and fund.
The radicals are running the asylum! Laws are for suckers. Not for minorities, illegals, or the super-rich. The politics of cities have been appropriated by coalitions of radicals comprised of illegals, minorities, welfare proponents, and antagonists (trouble-makers with external allegiances). These coalitions believe that they must not be subject to traditional laws. Those laws are for the white man – not for them. They are the domain of ICE and the Federal Government which these radical coalitions believe are illegitimate and evil.
And that, friends, is what we have to deal with in our largest cities. We’ll have to find ways to live with it or deal with it. Living with it allows it to fester and grow worse. Dealing with it will be painful. Pick your poison.