Monday, July 27, 2020

Curators of Decline

I’ll admit I haven’t checked every one of the following claims. However, I see nothing that is obviously false, and most of it has what we once called “face validity,” meaning it is sure as heck plausible.

The source is a website of a Denver talk radio show, The Kim Monson Show, hat tip to Stephen Green, a regular at Instapundit for the link. She posts a column by Richard Turnquist who argues Democrats are unfit to govern, his evidence:
All but 3 of America’s largest cities are run by Democratic mayors. The 3 largest cities – New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, are losing population every year.

Several of the most violent cities in America, including Albuquerque, Memphis, Detroit, Chicago and Washington, DC are run by Democrats.

States that are bleeding population every year due to high taxation, over-regulation, decaying cities and failing public services including New York, Connecticut, California and others are all run by Democrats.

States that have low to no income taxes, are right-to-work and favor energy development do better economically than high tax, forced union and energy unfriendly states. According to the annual economic outlook rankings published by the American Legislative Exchange Council Center for State Fiscal Reform, in 2019 the bottom ten states were all run by Democrats and the top 10 states except two were run by Republicans.
That sounds about right to me, no obvious flaws. The American Dream lives on in red states while it’s death is curated by Democrats in blue states and deep blue cities. Your choice in November is clear, vote for the Dream or vote for its death. In short: MAGA.