Liberalism more devastating than a nuclear bomb? Detroit vs. Hiroshima 65 years later

What happens when a city buys the liberal dream hook, line and sinker? Just take a look at the City of Detroit.

The Foundry offers this chilling tale of what liberalism has done to Detroit...

Morning Bell: Detroit’s Liberal Nightmare

The once-great city lost 237,493 residents over the last decade according to the 2010 Census, bringing it to 713,777 – a population plunge of 25%. That’s its lowest population since 1910, and it marks the city’s fall from a 1950s peak of two million, over 60%. And that’s just the people who can afford to leave.

Detroit, once known as “the great arsenal of democracy,” has made headlines of late for its notorious fall from grace. The “Big Three” automakers are no longer the biggest, falling behind their overseas rivals, and the Michigan economy lost 450,000 manufacturing jobs over the past 10 years all while Detroit lost population. And while the Motor City suffers unemployment from a decimated automotive industry, it suffers crime, high taxes, poor city services, plummeting home values, and a public education system in shambles with a $327 million budget deficit and a 19 percent dropout rate. Is it any wonder people are leaving in droves.

Michael Barone in the Washington Examiner has more:

Fully one-fifth of the housing units in Detroit are vacant, and of course many more have simply disappeared. I was in kindergarten in Detroit in April 1950, when the Census Bureau count for the city was 1,849,568. In the intervening 60 years the city’s population has declined by 1,135,791 people. The city’s population is down 61% in those years. When people ask me why I moved from being a liberal to being a conservative, my single-word answer is Detroit. The liberal policies which I hoped would make Detroit something like heaven have made it instead something more like hell.

Investor's Business Daily asks: Who Killed Detroit? "Sure, a lot of the blame goes to a generation of bad management. But the main reason for Detroit's decline is the greed of the industry's main union, the UAW, which priced the Big Three out of the market." (via Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit)



See it with your own eyes...

Detroit before the liberal bomb:

Hiroshima, about the same time, after the nuclear bomb:

Detroit now, after the liberal bomb:

Hiroshima now:

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