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Insanity?

One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing expecting a different result. This article [1] by Joel Kotkin presents the data showing the urban cores going more and more for the democrats since 1960. He points out the corresponding demographic trends that underly that move. Namely the increased poverty and racial segregation of urban communities.

The fact that the urban centers are a done deal for the democrats is not news. But the article did make me start wondering about the vote plantations the democrats run in the urban centers. One view of the world is to look at the urban centers, see the poverty and segregation and wonder what new government program can be done to change that. The fact that those government programs have tended to lock the urban centers in generational poverty has never persuaded the central government planning types from believing in the next government program.

Another view of the world is to wonder why people would purposely choose to surrender their voice in the political arena and then wonder why the more they vote democratic, the worse things become. Imagine the political consequences if urban voters suddenly started telling pollsters that they were supporting McCain. Imagine the political consequences if the democratic party woke up the morning after the second Tuesday in November and saw polling precincts that went for McCain. Why you could almost imagine the democratic party starting to take the urban centers seriously and not just the ‘new solid south’ vote raising plantations that they currently are for the democratic party. You could almost imagine both parties competing for the votes and thus offering effective policies to do something about the problems that face the urban centers, not just policies that help the Daly school of politicians like Obama.

 

Addendum: (Bit): The signs are that Obama cannot count on the black vote. He got himself heckled by black voters, today. I will be touching on this in tonight’s Ramble.