Loading ...All of the cities that are tops in the nation for crime have at least one thing in common. These areas all vote majority Democrat. What does this say for Democrats and Democratic candidates? Are Democrats so soft on crime and so accepting of criminals that the areas they inhabit become a haven for criminals? Is the socialist mentality of Dems and liberals one that criminals can relate to? I guess when you get a group together that wants the government to hand them everything and thinks having to work is a punishment you appeal to criminals. What else could it be?
Austin
Yes, what other commonalities could we possibly find between places like Compton, Camden, New Orleans, Detroit, Flint, Oakland, and Gary other than the fact that they all have Democrats? It’s not like a lot of those cities have suffered from dramatic levels of joblessness and poverty or anything. It’s just that they vote Dem; that must be it.
Okay, sarcasm aside, this is ridiculous. You don’t have to go anywhere near the political affiliation of the cities in question to see what social factors are driving crime there. Unless you want to claim that having Democratic politicians is the major, driving force behind all of those factors, your claim is just silly.
And, if you do want to argue you that, I think that you might want to consider that, of the fifteen states with the highest poverty rate in the U.S., between 13-15 of them went for the Republican in the last three presidential elections. Depending on how you want to define it, 10-12 of them are in the solidly Republican South. Given that state policy almost certainly has more effect on phenomena like poverty and crime than local policy, I think it would be fair to conclude that Republicans’ agendas and values make people poor, on the same grounds that you’d conclude that Democratic policies attract crooks.
(The reality, of course, is that analysis like that is painfully superficial and proves nothing. It’s easy to explain the prevalence of crime in the given cities without reference to Democratic politicians, and there may very well be good reasons to explain the poverty in all those Republican states, besides the Republicans themselves. Trying to go from the one to the other won’t work unless you’re only interested in partisan jeering, rather than the facts.)
You like to call my claims silly, but you offer no facts to support your argument. The majority of impoverished states you claim to be Republican are impoverished in areas such as Memphis where the rest of the state fairs well almost all criteria that states are judged on. Look to Mississippi and the Jackson area and Birmingham Alabama. Those areas bring the state down as a whole and that you cannot dispute.
You say that economic factors lead to the violence and crime in these Democratic cities and then you say that 13 of 15 of the most impoverished states vote Republican. This would dispel the “rich” stereotype you libs give Republicans. Also, the Republican areas do not have the high crime rate that your Democratic areas do, but have a higher poverty rate so how do you explain this?
I do not know why I even take the time to reply to your bullshit.
I think what Austin is trying to say is, those areas witn an ‘entitlement’ attitude tend to be Democratic and reflect the attitude in the demographic numbers.
In other words, Democrats tend to be folks who want to take what someone else has, whether it be legally or illegally. It’s ‘gimmee gimmee gimmee’, without any thought of who they are taking it from. Typical Democrat philosophy
Thanks a lot man