re: #487 publicityStunted

That article is from City Journal, a glibertarian mouthpiece of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, which (among other things) denies AGW. And that makes everything else they say automatically suspect for me (i.e. if they told me the sky was blue, I’d look out the window and check).

So, do look out the window and check. This notion that if anybody is wrong on anything they’re wrong on everything is cockeyed.

City Journal’s article makes claims of fact. LA has high unemployment. U.S. citizens are emigrating from LA. LA pays high pensions. Turnout is low in primaries, and unions get out the vote. Primaries are the only real elections; the Democrat always wins in the general election.

So, is this all wrong?

What we have here is a forum in which any observation that reflects negatively on Democrats is rejected out of hand, regardless of facts, logic, evidence, what have you. It’s like a mirror of Republican “thinking” on global warming.

Union Democrats rule LA, and they misrule it. You may win the ding contest, but Houston wins the economic contest. People who have no say in the rule of LA are voting with their feet.