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Illinois Entrepreneur's avatar

I get the feeling (since I'm from Chicago) that the moderate left liberals are looking at all this and they're not sure what to do. They won't vote for a Republican (icky!) and they want to be seen as *problem solvers* not political animals, but they know they are on a runaway train going the wrong way.

The City was historically run with an iron fist and with its various tribes, but it generally had common sense. Sure, there were the nuts and the political barking, but it was part of the game.

These folks running things now are the True Believers. The Machine has transformed, and rather than being as much about graft, it's now about ideology. These Believers need Kool-Aid, and they get very noisy when their cup runs low. They know this is probably their best chance of all time to implement every crazy Progressive ideal they've wanted. They are going for it, and going for it HARD.

The aforementioned liberals don't know what to do, so they will smile like an abused housewife and pretend that everything is just fine, just fine at home. "Things will work out!"

A lot of properties are getting seized in downtown right now, and vacancy rates are at all time highs. There is a transformation on the ground, and the current politicos are pretending that there's nothing amiss.

I'm looking to liquidate everything I can this year. Wish me luck.

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Tom Elia's avatar

I left Chicago almost 26 years ago. I have viewed with no joy what has happened to my hometown since then.

It is very, very sad to watch. That being said, people need to tell the truth about what has happened to a once-great city.

You know what? Here’s the truth: Chicago/Cook County Democrats are and have been the new hillbillies. And I mean all of them. Every single one of them.

Tell them to their faces. When you talk to them, tell them what you think of them.

Don’t mince words. Ask them why they were so cocky for so many years.

And then tell them all to go f—- themselves. Every single one of them.

I won’t go back.

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