http://thefederalist.com/2015/04/30/democrats-broke-baltimore-conservatives-can-help-fix-it/
Rachel nails it.... BIG. VERY BIG. The GOP should take a lesson from her. They would crush the dems in 2016 if her message got out.
Progressive liberals have laid the foundation for the scene in Baltimore, in a thousand different ways. Their relentless expansion of the “social safety net” has undermined family and community structures, spawning a whole generation of undisciplined, angry, fatherless young men. The Democratic alliance with public-sector unions has left America’s cities with corrupt, ineffective, and massively expensive public services, while cementing ethnic rivalries that might otherwise have dissipated naturally over time.
The bitterest irony of all is that Democrats’ own political rhetoric constantly stokes the fires of race resentment and class envy, even though this most directly harms their own constituents. The ghettoes of Baltimore sit right in the shadow of the glittering abodes of the Washingtonian elite, and this surely contributes to the city’s unrest. But almost all of the inhabitants of this rags-and-riches world are Democrats, marching to a Democratic drum. And it’s Democrats who keep telling us how bad we should all feel about it.
Rachel nails it.... BIG. VERY BIG. The GOP should take a lesson from her. They would crush the dems in 2016 if her message got out.
Progressive liberals have laid the foundation for the scene in Baltimore, in a thousand different ways. Their relentless expansion of the “social safety net” has undermined family and community structures, spawning a whole generation of undisciplined, angry, fatherless young men. The Democratic alliance with public-sector unions has left America’s cities with corrupt, ineffective, and massively expensive public services, while cementing ethnic rivalries that might otherwise have dissipated naturally over time.
The bitterest irony of all is that Democrats’ own political rhetoric constantly stokes the fires of race resentment and class envy, even though this most directly harms their own constituents. The ghettoes of Baltimore sit right in the shadow of the glittering abodes of the Washingtonian elite, and this surely contributes to the city’s unrest. But almost all of the inhabitants of this rags-and-riches world are Democrats, marching to a Democratic drum. And it’s Democrats who keep telling us how bad we should all feel about it.
