Detroit: A Microcosm of Liberal Policy

Sunday Paper - February 1st, 2009

The NFL’s Detroit Lions really broke the hearts of fans in 2008, becoming the first team in history to record a 0 win and 16 loss season.  However, when houses are being put up for sale with a listing price of $1, yes that’s one dollar, it is clear that Detroit has much larger scale plagues.  The city is crumbling thanks to 35 years of unchecked liberal rule.  In 1950, a mass exodus began and since then the city’s population has dwindled by one million.  The trend of bad to worse accelerated with the 20 year reign of Mayor Coleman Young who took office in 1974.

Young, who has been eloquently described as “Reverend Jeremiah Wright with real power,” was a complete disaster as mayor.  He antagonized the suburbanites and neglected the police department.  Government services were sub-par or totally absent and crime and taxes had soared through the sky.

These problems have since lingered like a night of over-consumption.  According to the findings of Michigan State University, Detroit public high schools graduate just a fraction of their students, one out of three.  Alarming, yet when a philanthropist wished to fund 15 new charter high schools, Detroit area teachers staged a walk-out.  The teachers had the support of convicted felon and former mayor Kwame Kilpatrick.

Liberal policies have had negative implications extending well beyond education.  In a WorldNetDaily Exclusive Commentary piece entitled Detroit’s Demise is the Triumph of Liberalism, author Ellis Washington elaborates, further illustrating the miserable failures that have scarred Detroit for over four decades:

Because of liberalism alone, Detroit has languished in despair for over 40 years – Detroit is often the murder capital of America; 50 percent of Detroiters are functionally illiterate; only 22 percent of entering high school freshman actually graduate from the Detroit Public Schools. And if you’re an African-American male, you have 73 percent unemployment in your 20s if you drop out of school and a 60 percent chance of going to jail. Seventy percent of all black births in America are outside of wedlock. Black women are 6 percent of the population, yet have over one-third (36 percent) of all abortions in America.

In the article, Washington also does an excellent job of defining liberalism, outlining its modus operandi, describing the circumstances that allow it to to perpetuate, and explaining the subsequent consequences. 

A glimpse into the state of affairs in Detroit serves as a reminder to us what might be in store for all of the United States, if Barack Obama’s radical socialist agenda progresses unchecked.  The good news is that Americans are showing signs of awakening from their slumber, as evidenced by their pressuring of their congressman to vote against Obama’s massive $825 billion stimulus plan (Republicans at least).  Another positive note is that we need not be concerned with Obama serving four terms as FDR did.  As his policies fail, he will more closely resemble Jimmy Carter (a one term Democrat).  Let’s keep spreading the conservative word, mid-term elections will be here next year.

This from Townhall.com - March 31st, 2008

http://townhall.com/columnists/RichLowry/2008/03/31/detroit_the_city_that_liberalism_ruined

This from WorldNetDaily - February 13th, 2008

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=56203

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