{"id":109669,"date":"2023-05-18T13:11:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-18T17:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=109669"},"modified":"2023-05-18T13:11:43","modified_gmt":"2023-05-18T17:11:43","slug":"the-daily-gouge-archive-wednesday-may-17th-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedailygouge.com\/?p=109669","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Gouge Archive, Wednesday, May 17th, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s Wednesday, May 17th, 2023…but before we begin, writing at Townhall.com<\/em>, Kurt Schlichter offers a tough-love solution to the problems Progressives’ urban policies produced and<\/span><\/em> perpetuate:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let the Blue Cities Die<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n

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“The Democrat cities are urine-soaked hellholes that reek of pot where criminals stalk unmolested while the full fury of what is supposed to be the law hangs over the head of any citizen who dares do something about it<\/span><\/em><\/strong>, and that\u2019s good<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. The idiots who live there voted for<\/em><\/span><\/strong> turning their urban landscapes into petri dishes of social pathologies, and they should enjoy the full benefits of their decisions<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. We normal people should avoid<\/em><\/span><\/strong> these socialist wastelands and elect legislators to Congress who will starve them of the federal funds that enable their decline. In red states, our legislators should wage warfare on the blue tumors in their midst lest they metastasize outside the city limits. And we should ruthlessly point to them<\/em><\/span><\/strong> as the future Democrats want<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, which they are<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, a vision of a psychotic hobo taking a dump on the sidewalk out in front of your house forever.<\/p>\n

Us normal people can\u2019t help<\/em><\/span><\/strong> the cities and their moron populations because they don\u2019t want to help themselves<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. We tried<\/em><\/span><\/strong> compassion. Now let\u2019s try compression<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. Let\u2019s squeeze them until they pop, like the pimple on America\u2019s rear end that they are.<\/p>\n

We used to love going to New York City. It was like Vegas for people who don\u2019t play slots. The excitement, the food, the energy \u2013 there was no other place quite like it. And now there is no place like it at all, because the corpse of the Big Apple that we enjoyed visiting was rotting even last year when we swung through on a book tour. The people, at least the normal ones, were missing \u2013 it looked empty somehow. But what it lacked in people it made up in dank clouds of weed smoke. The whole place smelled like a dorm at Rasta U. Junkies, bums, derelicts, and other key Democrat demographics loitered on the streets; the cops seemed to have simply checked out. But who can blame them? The Soros DAs, the slack-jawed electorate elected won\u2019t charge anyone anyway unless he\u2019s a political enemy or a normal person trying to protect New Yorkers from one of the myriad freaks the city fetishizes and indulges<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

As in California, all the good ones are leaving. There are a lot of complaints about blue state denizens shifting to red places and bringing their clown show politics with them, but in my experience it\u2019s the red people who are saying \u201cThe hell with this\u201d and checking out. The poor<\/em><\/span><\/strong> libs can\u2019t move<\/em><\/span><\/strong> and the rich<\/em><\/span><\/strong> ones don\u2019t need to<\/em><\/span><\/strong> \u2013 their<\/em><\/span><\/strong> little enclaves are relatively safe. The subways may be a concrete jungle where freaks with meat cleavers wander and you might get pushed into an oncoming train by some schizo with 100 arrests and no real jail time on his rap sheet, but the cops are still<\/em><\/span><\/strong> empowered to act in the well-heeled<\/em><\/span><\/strong> precincts. People ask how I can stay in LA, but I\u2019m not actually in<\/em><\/span><\/strong> LA \u2013 I\u2019m in a city by the beach where the cops actually cop<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. The chaos<\/em><\/span><\/strong> is for the poors on the uncool side<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of the 405; my<\/em><\/span><\/strong> neighbors vote for Ted Lieu and let the consequences<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of their moral preening fall on the people who don\u2019t work via Zoom<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Our job<\/em><\/span><\/strong> as conservatives is not<\/em><\/span> to <\/em><\/span>f<\/strong>ix<\/em><\/span><\/strong> the blue cities for the sake of their inhabitants. Those dummies should<\/em><\/span><\/strong> suffer the consequences of their actions. Let them<\/em><\/span><\/strong> dodge bum spoor on the sidewalks, let them<\/em><\/span><\/strong> walk in fear of the unhoused who would be housed in asylums or dungeons in a civilized<\/em><\/span><\/strong> metropolis. Our job<\/em><\/span><\/strong> is to contain<\/em><\/span><\/strong> the infected blue cities, to keep their poison from spreading<\/em><\/span><\/strong> to the rest of the country. And one way to do that is to mercilessly use them as an example of what all of America would be like<\/em><\/span><\/strong> if the Lori Lightfoots of the Democrat Party got their way. Make no mistake \u2013 they want to impose the same foul chaos on the rest of us, but the good news is that normal people are still disgusted and repelled by the dystopian dysfunction. The dogma that created failed cities should be the cautionary example we cite endlessly and tirelessly<\/em><\/span><\/strong> as the alternative to our Republican freedom, security, and prosperity agenda.<\/p>\n

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Of course, the regime media will slobber all over their Democrat masters trying to cover up the truth<\/em><\/span><\/strong> \u2013 look at all of them earnestly explaining that the subway system is actually very safe<\/em><\/span><\/strong> and the real problem<\/em><\/span><\/strong> is that you people just hate the differently mentally because you are racist and you should ignore the guy threatening to stab you because of equity and shut up<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, white privilege wielders of all colors. But we all<\/em><\/span><\/strong> know the truth. We\u2019ve all<\/em><\/span><\/strong> passed the encampments of needle-jockeys and lunatics that blight the urban landscape. We\u2019ve all<\/em><\/span><\/strong> seen the filth. We have all<\/em><\/span><\/strong> inhaled the rancid odor of civilizational collapse. Hell, even the Republicans could sell the alternative. What the Democrats offer is just that bad<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s get the idea of helping<\/em><\/span><\/strong> the blue cities out of our heads, though. There is no helping<\/em><\/span><\/strong> those who will not help themselves<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. They vote<\/em><\/span><\/strong> for these people. They choose<\/em><\/span><\/strong> this. Let<\/em><\/span><\/strong> them backstroke through the cesspool of their own creation. Our first job is containment<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. We need to keep the cancer from spreading. We do that<\/em><\/span><\/strong> by holding the blue cities up as the alternative to us in all their stinking glory. Then, wherever we have sufficient political power, we must strangle<\/em><\/span><\/strong> the cities. Money funds this all, our<\/em><\/span><\/strong> money. We must cut off<\/em><\/span><\/strong> their money, employing the same tough love strategy used by the mom of an indolent 25-year old who sits down in the basement playing Legend of Zelda and taking bong hits all day instead of getting a job. The cities live on our subsidies<\/em><\/span><\/strong> \u2013 much of the business they had has left for less scummy climes, and they survive on our collective largesse to fuel their addiction to socialism<\/span><\/em><\/strong>. Make them further cannibalize the last remaining muscle to feed the socialist fat, and thereby drive the remaining productive out<\/em><\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Heighten<\/em><\/span><\/strong> the contradictions. Make it all worse<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. That\u2019s the only way<\/em><\/span><\/strong> of ever making it better. The pain must be so great<\/em><\/span><\/strong> that the denizens fire<\/em><\/span><\/strong> the Democrats \u2013 remember how the New Yorkers finally turned to Rudy and he turned the Big Apple into a showplace? It can<\/em><\/span><\/strong> be done, but only agony will provoke it, so agony they must have. Let the cities die<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, and maybe<\/em><\/span><\/strong> they will live again<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. But even if they don\u2019t<\/em><\/span><\/strong>, okay, fine<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. It\u2019s not our problem<\/em><\/span><\/strong>. At least they won\u2019t infect the rest of us.”<\/p>\n

Though a mite harsh…<\/strong><\/p>\n