Pat Rice in Short Shorts wrote:UFGN, clam down dude. Have a conversation. That requires some consideration of the others person's points and thus some self control.
Consider this fact that expands on DGs point. Low income areas (crappy) occur across the globe. In democracies most are indeed run and have been for decades by elected liberal or even socialist representatives that promise the moon and always blame the "right" while corruption is rampant. This is a fact. Yet nothing changes, things get worse in most cases. Crappy to me means high crime, gardens filled with old fridges,bags of old trash and couches, crumbling homes...all the things we see and know to be from Indian reservations to Baltimore to DG's Hackney or my Penge .
Perhaps we should consider that the citizens of those places DO have the intellect and ability to change their own communities? What exactly is holding back people from cleaning things up? To stop being the consumers of the drugs that run those local economies (other than welfare)? It comes down to personal and community responsibility and generations of broken families and lack of ambition of many to change things. The initiatives I applaud and think work FAR better are things like charter schools, community based mentoring, anti gang programs, community based policing policies.
Blindly blaming others before looking inward, and having the race baiters, the provocateurs reinforcing the victimhood does not work. It never will. It leads to the violence and class/race warfare as we have seen in London, Paris, Rio, NY and countless other places.
Do these areas need a hand up to start positive results...yup. But all too often simply pumping money at the problem reinforces the reasons not to.
No, it's not a fact. It's easy to cherry pick a handful low income areas and blame liberal policy, but that's lazy thinking.
What about rural Kentucky, Ohio, Oklahoma, Alabama, Mississippi, West Virginia, Oregon, etc.? Those areas are run down, high in welfare recipients, high in poverty, full of corruption from local politicians, and have rampant drug use, yet they're run by conservative policy. But you never bring those areas up because it's easier to bash liberal policy than it is to actually get down to the root causes.
Though, while we're cherry picking to push narratives, liberal policies also result in a high quality of living. In the top 10 richest counties in America by median household income, most (60%) are liberal: Loudoun County, Fairfax County, and Arlington County in Virginia (#1, #3, and #6, respectively), Howard County in Maryland (#2), and Santa Clara County and San Mateo County in California (#5 and #8, respectively). All have county boards that are fully controlled by liberal ideology or have supermajority liberal control. All home to some of the best public school districts in the country, low crime, high QoL.
Capital absolutely has a lot to do with an area's success; it's the allocation of resources that's the problem.