Illinois
A pretty good Walter Russell Mead essay …
“Three states form the base of Democratic political power in the United States: California, New York and Illinois. All three states are locked in an accelerating economic, demographic and social decline; all three hope that they can stave off looming disaster at home by exporting the policies that have ruined them to the rest of the country.
Mary Williams Walsh, a talented reporter who is doing much to sustain the luster of the New York Times brand these days, has a must-read piece on the mess that is Illinois, and it is a compelling description of the misery and ruin that well-intentioned liberals combined with aggressive public sector labor unions inflict on the poor they ostensibly want to serve. . . .
But where liberals in America have the freest hand—in states like New York, California and Illinois—we see incontrovertible evidence that the policies they choose don’t have the consequences they predict. California by now should surely be an educational, environmental and social utopia. New York should be a wonder of glorious liberal governance. Illinois should be known far and wide as the state that works.
What’s interesting about the governance failures of these states is how comprehensive they are. Other than politicians, union officials and Wall Street investment banks, nobody really benefits from the choices Illinois has made. As the Volker-Ravitch report tells us, even the public sector unions, the architects of many of the state’s most destructive policies, are going to get shafted as a result of the bad policies they’ve supported. They’ve created a state that simply won’t be able to honor its promises to the workers the unions represent.
The French say that behind every great fortune lies a great crime. But it is also true to say that behind every great failure lies a great blunder. Late 20th century American liberalism is wrong about the way the world works. It doesn’t understand cause and effect very well. It cannot feed itself. Given full power it cannot design and implement policies that advance the causes it honors. Modern American liberalism can only win Pyrrhic victories, because liberals in power take steps that advance their decline . . .”
The “New South” is the illusion the guilty NETs have before the sick way they live actually catches up with them.
It’s the first blush when they get to town, displace the genuinely decent people who used to live there, plop their asses down, and enjoy the fruits of centuries of other people’s lifestyles, religion, and labor. But within ten years, they introduce the Welfare, the Warfare, the ragging racial politics, the bike riders insisting that locals front yards be claimed to create bike lanes for them, etc, etc.
They export their sick way of life, the sick policies, the sick people— but it looks ok when they first get there (and on the basis of this, they tell themselves that they are great, that that was when they “improved” the world of the stupid redneck locals, etc.)
We knew adults who actually thought sending people to college in those cities was an ok thing to do. It’s doubtful those out-of-touch adults will ever be forgiven.
Oh—- they have NO IDEA that other people don’t live like that and how horrified they are. It’s all the NETS have ever known, and they can’t even imagine anything else.
Where liberal ideas are applied to an all white or mostly white society, they actually are utopias.
The problem is race, race, race.
When I visited Sweden I thought I had died and gone to heaven. The only negative moment was my experience with a Muslim food vendor which made me sick to my stomach.
That liberalism carries and spawns the seed of its own destruction is old news.
Well said Dixiegirl
There are various socialist bloodlines. The Judaized ones are lethal to whites.