David Burge, who blogs as Iowahawk, posted this model he calls the "Chicago Circle" on X and Stephen Green reposted it on Instapundit. I believe it goes a long way to explaining how a Muslim socialist antisemite could win the Democratic nomination to be New York City's next mayor.
It gets its name from the last two yahoos elected mayor of Chicago, Ms. Bad and Mr. Worse. Los Angeles looks like it is headed down the same chute whose nether end debouches onto a dunghill.
Back when Jesse Jackson memorably described NYC as "Hymietown," a third of New Yorkers were Jews. Today they are 1 out of 8. Evidence of "smart people fleeing."
All these years urban planners have unwittingly been designing asylums for the ungifted and unwell. Three or four laps around this "doom loop" and you've got a dead-eyed dystopia.
Harry Harrison's sci. fi. book Make Room, Make Room (1966) describes the result in some detail. The book was adapted to be the 1973 film Soylent Green, but the book has the more vivid description.
