Democrat run cities
Bendintheriver
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You would be hard pressed to find a historically democrat run city that is doing well or growing and prospering to the benefit of all of their citizens. I was surprised at some of the data in the attached article. Some rat holes have not had a Republican mayor for the better part of 120 years. The decay, corruption, and bankruptcy are rampant in these historically dem run cities, yet the left keep on voting them in to their own detriment and decline.
At some point this has to change. If not we all will have to pay for their complete failure that was wholly the result of democrat leadership.
Can Our Cities Be Saved From The Left’s Death Grip? – Issues & Insights
ll the attention being thrown at New York’s mayoral primary race, won by socialist Zohran Mamdani, raises broader questions that deserve answers. Why do voters keep electing Democrats responsible for so much urban decline and decay? What will break the left’s stranglehold on our once great cities? Is the situation simply hopeless?
Of the nation’s largest 20 cities, only two have Republican mayors – Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. Republicans hold the mayorships of just 25 of the 100 largest cities. And that number is down from 30 in 2020.
Los Angeles has had one Republican mayor since 1961. New York has had one and a half since 1969 (Michael Bloomberg had been a lifelong Democrat, but ran as a Republican in 2001 and 2005, and then left the GOP midway through his second term).
Chicago has been electing Democratic mayors since 1931, and Houston since 1982.
Phoenix has elected Democrats for 20 years (a Republican was twice appointed as an interim mayor).
In Philadelphia, the last time a Republican was mayor was in 1948, and it’s been 24 years since San Antonio voters picked a GOP candidate for the city’s top office.
The other three of the top 10 cities – Dallas, San Diego, and Jacksonville – have been notable exceptions, with each having a fair share of mayors from both political parties.
Not only do voters in the nation’s largest cities keep electing Democrats, many of the ones winning elections today are more radical than their predecessors. Seven cities are today run by socialist mayors. Ten years ago, there was one.
In just the past four years, the one-party cities of Los Angeles, New York, and Chicago have seen their combined populations shrink by more than 370,000.
People are fleeing other Democratic cities such as San Francisco, Boston, Portland, Baltimore, Milwaukee (which hasn’t had a Republican mayor since 1906, but has had three socialist mayors), Albuquerque, Minneapolis, and Cleveland (which has had only two Republican mayors since 1941).
Leftists keep yapping about how they want more people to live in densely populated areas, but then do everything they can to drive people away.