The Dems have been marching lock step to become as the former USSR was in the past. They want totalitarian control, and while they haven't resorted to standing folks up against a wall and shooting them dead, it doesn't take much to get there from where we are. When 8 of the top 50 cities have a Republican mayor, that says we are no longer a two party system. And the Dems will not be happy until they have all 50 cities.
Pittsburgh and Philadelphia are two cities that have rotted away from what they once were under Democommie control. Neither has had a Republican as mayor in 100 years +/-. How is that different from any city in Russia? Is isn't. Republicans do not even run a candidate in Pittsburgh most elections. Pittsburgh is loaded with dumb people, folks that still believe unions work in their best interest, and yet, all the union jobs are gone. The steel mills are closed, and dismantled; manufacturing is gone; everything in Pittsburgh is gone. Most of the corporate headquarters in Pittsburgh, formerly 3rd in the nation behind New York and Chicago, all gone. Even US Steel is facing its end with the Japanese wanting to buy it and end it as we know it. Westinghouse, reduced to a tiny rubble. So many great companies, all gone.
As bad as the cities are in America, they will continue to worsen with remote work. People can live out in the country, away from any size populated area and do well. No traffic, no noise, no annoying people, just nature. As America continues down that road, cities will further decay with their high cost for existing. How many times does one need to frequent a museum before you decide you have seen it all. I have been to the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh 50 times, the Smithsonian about the same. Most people do not desire to see any of those things more than once.
I took my kids when they were 10,12 and 16 to the Edison Museum in Ft. Meyer, FL for the 1st time, and they could not be more bored. I had been there before and loved it, and thought they would find it interesting. I could not be more wrong. Bored to tears.
The day of the city has come to an end. How they transition to a smaller future remains to be seen. And the appreciation of culture is declining too. If we are not educating our children, why would they ever be interested in culture? They are not!!!
I had one daughter, naturally smart. Never saw her open a book or do homework. I bought books I thought she would enjoy reading, she never cracked the cover on any of them. She got A's in school, the occasional B, and I would tell her, when you get into a university, you will not be able to rely on your natural intelligence, you will have to work and you will have no idea how to do so. She became the life long student, and it took her about 8 years to get a bachelor's degree. She kept changing her mind in terms of what she wanted to do when she graduated.
I would not want to live in any of the top 50 cities in the USA, for I see them steadily declining into the future, lowering property values, etc. There are a few that will be exceptions, i.e. Atlanta, Dallas, Houston. But for the Pittsburghs, Milwaukees, and Toledos of the world, decline, steady decline.
