The Democrat Utopia

Archy1221 said:
I really don’t think there is much difference in that parody (if that’s what it was) and a Democrat now a days  :dunno    
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I've spent the last ten years in Atlanta and Chicago (with several months of west coast couch surfing thrown in) in artist communities that have featured a lot of emphasis on healthy community building and space for all (think a lite version of church minus God and dogma and with a casual dash of making a space safe). Anecdotally, I've known two people like this in my life, one in each city. All of the most hippy lib left-wing progressives around me, of which there are many, find them to be a$$h@!es, myself included.

The most progressive among us generally resort to isolating themselves from their "non-woke" families and friends and are very fine to leave and let be rather than be interested in making their beliefs other people's problems. I'll give you a great example (again, acknowledging all of this as anecdotal).

Two weeks ago we had someone in our community unexpectedly pass away from a freak scenario. She was young and vibrant and lovely and it was a massive shock. Her funeral was 2.5 hours away from Atlanta Monday afternoon at the baptist church she grew up in and there were probably about 250-300 people from the film/improv/writing/art community that all made it out, a lot of them being gay, queer, non-binary or trans. One thing incredibly obvious about her in our spaces was that she really, really, really liked women :lol:  and one thing that was obvious from the service and from her parents was that on the day of her funeral that part of her identity was going to just... not be talked about out loud. She had recently come out to her parents, and their love for her remained but their peace with her being gay had a long road ahead and the version of her presented to be remembered was picking and choosing to some degree. The thing is though, nobody cared... at least not enough to be an a$$h@!e about it. Some of us were quite aware of it, some were even slightly upset, but they kept it to themselves and let the day be what the family and church needed it to be. 

I think your use of the word 'Democrat' is a poor choice here (this type of person doesn't like the Dems). Also, in the same way that neo-nazis and aggressively homophobic pastors and qanon pizzagate whackos are a shocking and poor representation of Republicans, I find this to be a caricature of a type of person who does obviously exist but is very rare and extreme. The types of people that Jordan Klepper and Steven Crowder find on the street to dunk on are fun for entertainment but shouldn't make their way into our worldview as being representative of anything other than the very edge of the bell curve. 

 
Lorewarn said:
I've spent the last ten years in Atlanta and Chicago (with several months of west coast couch surfing thrown in) in artist communities that have featured a lot of emphasis on healthy community building and space for all (think a lite version of church minus God and dogma and with a casual dash of making a space safe). Anecdotally, I've known two people like this in my life, one in each city. All of the most hippy lib left-wing progressives around me, of which there are many, find them to be a$$h@!es, myself included.

The most progressive among us generally resort to isolating themselves from their "non-woke" families and friends and are very fine to leave and let be rather than be interested in making their beliefs other people's problems. I'll give you a great example (again, acknowledging all of this as anecdotal).

Two weeks ago we had someone in our community unexpectedly pass away from a freak scenario. She was young and vibrant and lovely and it was a massive shock. Her funeral was 2.5 hours away from Atlanta Monday afternoon at the baptist church she grew up in and there were probably about 250-300 people from the film/improv/writing/art community that all made it out, a lot of them being gay, queer, non-binary or trans. One thing incredibly obvious about her in our spaces was that she really, really, really liked women :lol:  and one thing that was obvious from the service and from her parents was that on the day of her funeral that part of her identity was going to just... not be talked about out loud. She had recently come out to her parents, and their love for her remained but their peace with her being gay had a long road ahead and the version of her presented to be remembered was picking and choosing to some degree. The thing is though, nobody cared... at least not enough to be an a$$h@!e about it. Some of us were quite aware of it, some were even slightly upset, but they kept it to themselves and let the day be what the family and church needed it to be. 

I think your use of the word 'Democrat' is a poor choice here (this type of person doesn't like the Dems). Also, in the same way that neo-nazis and aggressively homophobic pastors and qanon pizzagate whackos are a shocking and poor representation of Republicans, I find this to be a caricature of a type of person who does obviously exist but is very rare and extreme. The types of people that Jordan Klepper and Steven Crowder find on the street to dunk on are fun for entertainment but shouldn't make their way into our worldview as being representative of anything other than the very edge of the bell curve. 
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Pretty much accurate.

90% of people are nomal.

5% are crazy either way/side.  They make the most noise and look the most insane to normal people.  

 
FBI raids homes of two top NYC York City officials close to Mayor Eric Adams, sources say




FBI agents on Wednesday searched the homes of multiple top officials in the administration of New York City Mayor Eric Adams, two city officials said.

Among the individuals targeted were First Deputy Mayor Sheena Wright and Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Philip Banks III, the officials said.

 

The reason for the search warrants wasn't immediately clear. Spokespersons for the FBI and the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York declined to comment.

A City Hall lawyer, Lisa Zornberg, said in a statement: “Investigators have not indicated to us the mayor or his staff are targets of any investigation. As a former member of law enforcement, the mayor has repeatedly made clear that all members of the team need to follow the law.”

 








Illinois is a mess of a state and has been for decades. I don't know how appropriate it is or not to correlate it with democratic leadership (it might be), but I know there is absolutely a strong correlation with ages and ages of the most corrupt institutions (police force, judges, etc.) you can imagine with a thru line going back to Capone, siphoning off massive amounts of public money. I've seen glimpses of it, and also had some anecdotal experiences/stories told to me through the years I lived there and doing some non-profit public sector work. Once I was working an event in the south side and across the street there was a cop funeral, and as I was interviewing a former politician turned pastor he covered his mic and said, "The stories I could tell you about some of the guys in that church [cops] would make your blood boil and skin crawl."

 
Lorewarn said:
I don't know how appropriate it is or not to correlate it with democratic leadership (it might be),
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Lorewarn said:
you can imagine with a thru line going back to Capone, siphoning off massive amounts of public money
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_history_of_Chicago#:~:text=Chicago has a long history,the mid-20th century onward.

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The political environment in Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s let organized crime flourish to the point that many Chicago policemen earned more money from pay-offs than from the city. Before the 1930s, the Democratic Party in Chicago was divided along ethnic lines - the Irish, Polish, Italian, and other groups each controlled politics in their neighborhoods. Under the leadership of Anton Cermak, the party consolidated its ethnic bases into one large organization. With the organization behind, Cermak was able to win election as mayor of Chicago in 1931, an office he held until his assassination in 1933.

The modern era of politics was dominated by the Cook County Democratic Party and was honed by Richard J. Daley after his election in 1955. Richard M. Daley, his son, later became mayor and served from 1989 to 2011. Daley announced on September 7, 2010 that he would not be seeking re-election.[4] Daley was succeeded by former Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

The New Deal of the 1930s and the Great Society of the 1960s gave the Democratic Party access to new funds and programs for housing, slum clearance, urban renewal, and education, through which to dispense patronage and maintain control of the city.[5]Machine politics persisted in Chicago after the decline of similar machines in other large American cities.[6] During much of that time, the city administration found opposition mainly from a liberal "independent" faction of the Democratic Party. This included African Americans and Latinos. In the Lakeview/Uptown 46th Ward, the first Latino to announce an aldermanic bid against a Daley loyalist was Jose Cha Cha Jimenez, founder of the Young Lords.[7]

The police corruption that came to the light from the Summerdale Scandals of 1960, in which police officers kept stolen property or sold it and kept the cash, was another black eye on the local political scene of Chicago.[8]Eight officers from the Summerdale police district on Chicago's Northwest Side were accused of operating a large-scale burglary ring.

The Daley faction, with financial help from Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., helped elect John F. Kennedy to the office of President of the United States in the 1960 presidential election.[9]

Home-town columnist Mike Royko wrote satirically that Chicago's motto (Urbs in Hortoor "City in a Garden") should instead be Ubi est mea, or "Where's Mine?"[10]

The shock election of six Democratic Socialists of America to the council in 2019 was as the largest socialist electoral victory in modern American history.[11]

 
Archy1221 said:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_history_of_Chicago#:~:text=Chicago has a long history,the mid-20th century onward.

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The political environment in Chicago in the 1910s and 1920s let organized crime flourish to the point that many Chicago policemen earned more money from pay-offs than from the city. Before the 1930s, the Democratic Party in Chicago was divided along ethnic lines - the Irish, Polish, Italian, and other groups each controlled politics in their neighborhoods. Under the leadership of Anton Cermak, the party consolidated its ethnic bases into one large organization. With the organization behind, Cermak was able to win election as mayor of Chicago in 1931, an office he held until his assassination in 1933.

The modern era of politics was dominated by the Cook County Democratic Party and was honed by Richard J. Daley after his election in 1955. Richard M. Daley, his son, later became mayor and served from 1989 to 2011. Daley announced on September 7, 2010 that he would not be seeking re-election.[4] Daley was succeeded by former Obama White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.

The New Deal of the 1930s and the Great Society of the 1960s gave the Democratic Party access to new funds and programs for housing, slum clearance, urban renewal, and education, through which to dispense patronage and maintain control of the city.[5]Machine politics persisted in Chicago after the decline of similar machines in other large American cities.[6] During much of that time, the city administration found opposition mainly from a liberal "independent" faction of the Democratic Party. This included African Americans and Latinos. In the Lakeview/Uptown 46th Ward, the first Latino to announce an aldermanic bid against a Daley loyalist was Jose Cha Cha Jimenez, founder of the Young Lords.[7]

The police corruption that came to the light from the Summerdale Scandals of 1960, in which police officers kept stolen property or sold it and kept the cash, was another black eye on the local political scene of Chicago.[8]Eight officers from the Summerdale police district on Chicago's Northwest Side were accused of operating a large-scale burglary ring.

The Daley faction, with financial help from Joseph P. Kennedy Sr., helped elect John F. Kennedy to the office of President of the United States in the 1960 presidential election.[9]

Home-town columnist Mike Royko wrote satirically that Chicago's motto (Urbs in Hortoor "City in a Garden") should instead be Ubi est mea, or "Where's Mine?"[10]

The shock election of six Democratic Socialists of America to the council in 2019 was as the largest socialist electoral victory in modern American history.[11]
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Cermak!  I worked at a golf course off of a street with his name on it. 

 
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