A Metaphor for the United States?
Melissa Harris Perry, on her MSNBC show this morning, looked in-depth at the impending collapse of Detroit (the "Motor City"). See my earlier blog: DON'T "FORGET" THE MOTOR CITY (11/30/12). The details of what is happening to Detroit are especially disturbing when we contemplate the impending SEQUESTRATION pushed by the Republicans in Congress.
There are eery parallels, both in causes and effects, for both phenomena. The racial overcast for both become readily apparent. Detroit, they report, never solved its "race problem"; the city has been systematically starved for tax revenue; those who fled the deep South in the 1940s and 50s for destinations like Detroit (similarly for Chicago, Newark, Washington, D.C. - after the 60's riots) have failed to follow the white tax base as it fled to new suburbs; leaving the central cities bereft of tax revenues and consistent administrative talent.
Integration gains exascerbated the problem by flushing non-white talent from the cities; leaving behind a concentration of social and economic debilitation. The whites who fled the cities, commuted back into the cities for jobs; until the jobs were moved out to the suburbs. No matter what talent our President assembles to fight collapse at the national level, the Republicans find ways to undermine his efforts.
Now, we have the rolling energy crises, making it more and more expensive to commute between the cities and suburbs, and even WITHIN the suburbs; where you may have to drive miles to get a quart of milk!
Could it be that the Republicans don't offer a future vision for our nation because they don't see a good one??
Could it also be that the Republications are extending this sorry pattern to the entire nation on the hope that the coming "white minority" can rule over the "rubble" that will be left if they succeed in driving the United States to collapse?
This might also explain why women, Hispanics, and other non-white minorities have been brought under their wide attack; to form the "47%" they view as their political enemy?
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