The city of Detroit has been seen as many things to many people. A city is such a huge and unknowable entity that every view we take can only be partial, colored by our own political perspective and background. Some of the lenses that have been used to view the wreckage and ruin of modern Detroit: to many on the right, it is a symbol of a town with too many unions, and an example of how those unions destroy the jobs they are meant to protect by making things too difficult for the capitalist class. Others from the same side of the political spectrum argue that the Democrats who led Detroit taxed the people too highly and spent too much money on public services and welfare. Those with a more extreme viewpoint take a racist approach – they say that Detroit’s problems stem from the fact that it is majority black, and that black people should not be allowed or expected to govern themselves properly.
Posted on: Mon, 21 Apr 2014 03:26:12 +0000
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