{"id":8588,"date":"2013-07-31T14:43:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/31\/detroit-city\/"},"modified":"2013-07-31T14:43:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T14:43:54","slug":"detroit-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/07\/31\/detroit-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Detroit City"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bobby Bare's 1963 Country and Western crossover hit<\/a> features the lines, "By day I make the cars, by night I make the bars . . . ."  But that was '63, around the time a series of Democrat mayors took control of the city.  Since then there have been seven<\/a>, five of them black, with nary a Republican, and now 50 years later the place is a disaster with the bars outnumbering the cars.  Post hoc ergo propter hoc?<\/em>  I don't think so.  Liberalism has destroyed the city in five ways as detailed here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Unions crippled the auto industry.<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Whites were demonized until they left.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. Out-of-control crime helped drive much of the black middle class out of the city.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. Reckless government spending bankrupted the city.<\/span><\/p>\n

5. The government is completely incompetent.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

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Bobby Bare's 1963 Country and Western crossover hit features the lines, "By day I make the cars, by night I make the bars . . . ."  But that was '63, around the time a series of Democrat mayors took control of the city.  Since then there have been seven, five of them black, with … Continue reading “Detroit City”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8588\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}