American Politics

[Razors left peg]

just want to play devils advocate but state voting has little to do with the situation though... right? You know better than me, but aren't most of these cities democrat Mayors (I havent checked the list but my assumption is that "large city" usually = "democrat run" whereas state/rural tends more red) and even at state level, wouldn't a portion of these states have blue Governors? I assume by Republican state you and Tets mean, the state voted Trump...?

Stu quite honestly cities across the world have high crime rates. Its just a load of b0llocks being spun whether its red or blue in any country for most part. The lads here love highlighting Chicago as high crime, but for the most part Chicago is a fantastic city that I love going to. I probably wouldn't spend too much time in the south side of the City though, much like theres parts of Galway I wouldnt wanna be at night.

Anywhere there is poverty there is crime, simple as. If we want to look at poverty rates in the US, the top 10 poorest states are overwhelmingly Republican. Maybe we should be focused on that sort of problem instead of giving tax breaks to billioneers.

Again the 2 lads coming out with statements like the left love murder. Two months ago Melissa and Mark Hortman and their dog were murdered in their home and there was no moment of prayer in Congress, no lowering of flags to half-staff, a Republican senator openly mocked their death and other Republicans just ignored it...and that's only one example very recently.

[joey B]

An unlikely source for a sensible take!

[SkStu]

After over a decade of complete chaos and BS, it’s the only reasonable take left. Extremists and dangerous idiots on both sides are w@nkers of the highest order. Fanning flames constantly.

Good post Razor. Will reply in a bit.

[SkStu]

Stu quite honestly cities across the world have high crime rates. Its just a load of b0llocks being spun whether its red or blue in any country for most part. The lads here love highlighting Chicago as high crime, but for the most part Chicago is a fantastic city that I love going to. I probably wouldn't spend too much time in the south side of the City though, much like theres parts of Galway I wouldnt wanna be at night.

Anywhere there is poverty there is crime, simple as. If we want to look at poverty rates in the US, the top 10 poorest states are overwhelmingly Republican. Maybe we should be focused on that sort of problem instead of giving tax breaks to billioneers.

Again the 2 lads coming out with statements like the left love murder. Two months ago Melissa and Mark Hortman and their dog were murdered in their home and there was no moment of prayer in Congress, no lowering of flags to half-staff, a Republican senator openly mocked their death and other Republicans just ignored it...and that's only one example very recently.

Listen, agree with you. If we were to list all of the contributing factors to serious crime and gun crime, they’d be all the socio-economic causes you list and political stripes of the state or city leaders would be far down the list and, at best, an indirect cause. The only reasonable I asked the questions and played devils advocate was because someone raised the connection first as “the reason” and you happened to be the last one to post something on it.