re: #58 Vicious Babushka

Yes Detroit is fucked, but it has nothing to do with 50 YEARS OF DEMOCRAT GOVERNMENT. There are few major American cities that DO NOT have a Democrat as mayor. Anyway the Office of Mayor of Detroit is non-partisan. However we have had 30 years of Republican governors.

Yup. That was kind of my point, really. Far as I can tell, the ills of Detroit can be laid squarely at the feet of its crushing feudalist inequality. What middle class it still had (after the whole Rust Belt decline) has all gone away, leaving only workers who can’t find work and aristocrats who won’t provide any.