Authored by Ted Dabrowski and John Klingner via Wirepoints.org,
Chicagoans cheered Mayor Lightfoot’s exit.
Gone was her toxic attitude. Her flippant dismissal of the city’s many crises. Her dismal record on crime. And her destruction of police morale.
She was an absolute failure by any measure.
From the beginning, she was more interested in imposing a progressive vision and an “equity” agenda on Chicago than enacting the many reforms the city needed.
So Chicagoans kicked out Lightfoot. Change was possible.
But what Chicagoans voted for on April 4 was someone more extreme and exactly opposite of what the city needed.
To reduce Chicago’s nation-high homicide rate, Chicago needed a new mayor willing to take on Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx’s unwillingness to prosecute dangerous criminals. A mayor willing to challenge Judge Tim Evans’ decarcerationist agenda. A mayor willing to jam shut the system’s revolving door for criminals.
Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson won’t do any of that. Instead, look for him to embrace the policies of Foxx and Evans. In his own words, he’s for defunding the police and defends looting as “an outbreak of incredible frustration and anguish” tied to “a failed racist system.”
Watch for police morale to fall further, for criminals to be emboldened and for crime to continue to spike in Chicago.
To improve Chicago’s dismal educational outcomes – only 1 in 20 black students at CPS can do math at grade level – the city needed a new mayor to champion math and reading proficiency as well as educational excellence, merit and achievement. You won’t get that from Brandon Johnson and his Chicago Teachers Union. Johnson has already said that as a teacher he pushed to eliminate standards, stopped giving homework, and reduced test prep as a way of “rebelling against the structure.” For him, the concept of “equity,” not excellence, will dominate, and kids will lose.
Watch for student outcomes to worsen as standards are removed.
And as for the city’s economic climate and business friendliness, Chicago needed a new mayor who would make the city affordable again by growing the tax base, not the tax rate. Who would encourage companies to come to the city, not lambast them as a cause of social ills.
Johnson will do the opposite.
He’s promised to target businesses and the wealthy to pay for his social programming.
We’ve already seen leaders in business and finance – like Ken Griffin and Citadel and Boeing – leave. Don’t be surprised to see a continued, steady outflow. The damage could be deep.
The silver lining in all this?
A few years under Johnson may finally push the center left in Chicago to finally give a reformer the support of 50 percent plus one.
The question is, how bad of a hit will Chicago have taken during that time? To its safety. To its social cohesion. To its finances. To its population. To its economic base.
Will it be fixable, especially with all its debts?
We hope so.
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Universal suffrage is a horrible idea, only slightly less destructive than democracy itself.
That’s okay, it isn’t like the population is going to notice a change.
Let’s Go Brandon!!!!
Build Back Better !!!
(after ya burn it down)
(Sarcasm off)….
And XXXL ClownFagWorld rolls merrily along…
Next stop, Sodom and Gomorrah!!!
HONK HONK!!!
No reason for a white person to go to Shitcago.
Chitcongo…. destined to be the next Haiti….
When its corruption wasn’t so noticeable on the street, it was an interesting town to visit.
This is one of those articles I choose to skip. Like I’m supposed to get worked up when a democrat run city elects a commie? Don’t waste my time.
One time I was driving through Chicago on the 4th of July. Horrible bumper to bumper traffic on the interstate. Nature called. And I mean called. There was no way out of this.
I pulled over to the far right and pissed like a race horse. Got back in and drove away. This was broad daylight.
All they did was replace one criminal with another.
There are no elections anymore and the government just does whatever it wants now.
“We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.” ― Karl Rove (attributed)
Wakanda West will rise from the ashes of the former caucasian (therefore by definition rayssiss,) City of Broad Shoulders. This new era of peace, prosperity, and Popeye’s will manifest to the world the greatness of the Communist-Demoncrat folks running the show.
He won’t only finish the destruction of Chicago, he’ll also speed up the lost cause that is Illinois. I read he hopes to get more money from the state of Illinois for many of his programs.
An addict has two choices after hitting rock-bottom: suicide or reform. Either Chicago has not yet hit rock-bottom or the city chose suicide. Either way, it’s only going to get worse.
The Vallas people having a complete meltdown. Sorry, Obummer, you can’t always get what you want.
Let. It. Burn. You can’t fix stupid or evil.
Things to Do if you find yourself in Chicago…Leave.
As fast as you can.
Yes, unfortunately some friends I know call suburban Chicago home. They’re in Tinley Park, which I think is far enough removed from the south side.
But damn, he’s retired, with a union pension, yet she still commutes & works in the city.
They ought to get out of there as soon as possible.
But, I’m sure their reason for staying must have some validity..
And so it goes…
Stupid is as stupid does -Forrest Gump
You can’t fix stupid – Ron White
Those two quotes are never wrong. You can’t fix Chicago.
Morons electing morons. Let them loot and toss them freebies- it just keeps getting worse and perpetuates. At some point someone is going to have to pull the flush lever and let all this sh** go down the drain.
As long as you’re black. Justice isn’t blind to them, it judges your guilt based on the color of your skin.
Not a chance in hell. Chicago will burn, crime will explode, jobs and industry will leave and the left will just refuse to see the result of their actions and blame it on conservatives.
You would think Detroit would have served as an example of what to expect and avoid. Guess not.
Can’t fix stupid…
Let’s Go Brandon!
Blacks believe that once one of ’em gets elected to an office, it’s theirs in perpetuity.
I think 7 of 9 candidates that ran for mayor were black – once there was a run off, they played the race card, plain & simple. Even Rep “Chuy” Garcia (D-IL), one of the failed candidates, threw his support to Brandon – no surprise, they’re both radicals hellbent on destroying the country.
Vallas used to run Chicago Public Schools decades ago, and actually did a decent job, given the shitty hand he was dealt to begin with – much better than Obama’s basketball-playing teammate, Arne Duncan, who failed upward to become Obama’s Education Secretary.
There was even word that it might’ve taken days to count all the votes – meaning the fix was in for Brandon.
chicago is about to get so bad that the only thing that will now fix the city will be martial law that is imposed either by the state or by the feds —
If you want to screw things up, put a jogger in charge.
It is as simple as that…….
And remember, avoid the groid.
Chicago is going to get what it voted for…of course, no one believes the vote.
All white people and hardworking minorities need to leave this city ASAP.
He can’t even pay his own bills yet he’s gonna budget a city. Fuck Brandon Johnson. FBJ. FJB. Suits both. Chicago Machine wins again.
shades of Kwame Kilpatrick, no?
Yes and KK is still tryin’ for the special treatment.
The Chicago machine ended in 1983. Unless you have some other definition.
I have no teeth. I listen to people who live in Chicago and still call it a machine. Everyone I know wanted Vallas. You can change a definition and call it something else. Just look at the word vaccine.
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