I can't say it too strongly. GET OUT OF "BLUE" BIG CITIES. NOW.

 

I've said many times before that if you value your safety and security, and that of your loved ones, you should get out of big cities, particularly "blue" ones under the control of a left-wing progressive administration.  Again and again I've heard replies that it simply isn't possible, that family ties prevent it, that "I can't afford it", and so on.

Well, that's your call - but the reality of city life is that it's getting more violent and more dangerous by the day.  No, that's not an exaggeration.  Examples:

Big Apple’s core is rotten with crime: NYPD stats, experts, biz owners

The Big Apple’s core is rotten with crime, new police stats show.

Major crimes in the Midtown South have skyrocketed 44% as of Feb. 5 compared to the same time last year, with 412 incidents vs. 287, according to the NYPD.

The staggering jump in crime outpaces the total incidents for the city, which increased just 2.6%.

The precinct features some of the city’s most crowded and iconic spots, including Times Square, the Grand Central Terminal, Madison Square Garden and the Port Authority Bus Terminal — near where fatal gunfire erupted this week.

Seattle 2022 crime report: Violent crime, homicides and shootings increased

Seattle's violent crime rate reached a 15-year high in 2022, surpassing the record set in 2021, according to a yearly crime report released by the Seattle Police Department (SPD).

New data released by SPD indicates that violent crime increased by 4% compared to 2021, which was the previous all-time high in reported crimes. Totals in 2022, however, surpassed the 2021 mark with 49,577 violent and property crimes. The department reported that aggravated assault and motor vehicle thefts were "significantly" high in 2022 compared to a five-year weighted average.

Chicago Violent Crime Out of Control, with [Mayor] Lightfoot in Full Panic

... crime in Chicago is now completely out of control. Every neighborhood is suffering after Lightfoot’s ill-advised political war with cops. She’s made them defensive, and they’re constantly worried about becoming involved in a controversial arrest, then having the mayor and other politicians throw them under the bus and take their pensions.

So they don’t police. They simply respond when the calls come in, when the bodies hit the floor.

Without law there is chaos. You see it. I see it.

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Without astute management in Chicago, without structural fiscal change, without real school choice to give the city hope, without leadership that provides safety and order, what remains: Chaos and anarchy. And tired leftist race rhetoric to manage the decline.

Philadelphia Neighborhood Like a 'Walking Dead' Episode as Soft-on-Crime Policies and Animal Tranquilizer Craze Take Over the City

• Overall shootings have increased by 3%, according to city stats.
• Overall violent crime is up 7% from the same time last year.
• Robberies in which perpetrators used guns are up 60%.
• Property crimes are up more than 30%, with businesses getting hit hard as commercial burglaries have risen a staggering 50%.

Philadelphia is far from the only U.S. city to experience issues like this. I’ve written about my town of Los Angeles, but Seattle, San Francisco, Chicago, and other cities are other poster children for violence, drug addiction, and homelessness. While our government gives billions for “green energy,” focuses on wokeness obsessively, and gives billions to Ukraine, they seem to have no interest in our own cities as they descend into cesspools of despair and death.

Need I go on?  I could link to similar articles about almost every Democrat-run city in America today.  The authorities in those cities don't care at all about the safety, security and well-being of their people.  That's proved by their lack of attention to those issues.  They're too busy following their "woke" agendas, feathering their own nests, and making sure that their local elections are sufficiently "influenced" that they will never be removed from office.

Friends, it's all very well to talk about behaving defensively;  not going to crime hotspots, maintaining a high level of situational awareness, carrying a gun where possible, and all the rest.  The fact remains, if you persist in living in areas where crime and violence are daily occurrences - and increasing all the time - then all the precautions in the world won't stop that affecting you.  It's like the fabled tale of King Canute trying to hold back the incoming tide by issuing a royal command.  It won't work.  The forces of criminality are inexorably inching closer to you.  In some cases, they're not inching at all - they're charging flat-out in your direction.

As we mentioned not long ago, this is exacerbated by the current influx of illegal aliens.  Many of them come from countries where crime and violence are endemic.  They're bringing that history and that attitude with them.  If they can't find work, or some other honest way to make a living, they'll fuel the crime epidemic by taking what they need, one way or another.  There are some ways one can prepare to deal with this problem, but they won't help if one's environment overall is both insecure now, and not possible to secure in the immediate future.

It's no good building a levee to keep out the water if the water (i.e. crime) has already flooded your property.  In most "blue" cities in America today, that's already happened.  One's choices are to learn to live with the water, and the permanent, never-ending damage it will cause, or move to where it's dryer.  The latter is the only safe alternative.

I know that moving under such circumstances can be extremely difficult.  One may lose money on the sale of one's home, be forced to accept a lower-paid job in another place, disrupt the kids' schooling by moving them between school districts or even states, and all those things.  Sometimes it seems impossible to break family ties and move away from parents or siblings.  Nevertheless, it's time to ask yourself:  what's your life worth?  What's the safety of your family worth?

If the economy continues its downward slide, if inflation continues to take its toll on the value of our hard-earned dollars, if the EBT system crashes or runs out of money, if more and more stores close due to the pressure of crime, if things go south in Ukraine and drag us into a shooting war there . . . all these dangers loom on our horizon right now.  We can't predict which, if any, of them will actually happen and/or affect where we live.  However, we can be sure that if enough of them do, the effects will be felt in our cities, adding to the "urban pressure-cooker" effect.  I don't know about you, but I don't want to be anywhere near that pressure-cooker if the pressure gets too great, and something has to give.

John Wilder has been publishing his monthly Civil War Reports for some years.  In the latest edition, he issues a blunt warning - one directly tied into the situation in our "blue" cities.

I’ve written these Civil War Weather Reports for years now, and I can’t get away from one thing:  we’re coming apart.  The Right is essentially in the same place, but the Left is moving farther and farther left, faster.

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In no sane world do we go from “recognizing gay marriage” to “we must give your child puberty blockers in anticipation of removal of their genitals” in less than ten years.  That’s not normal, and it’s nothing less than an amazing change, and in a country of several hundred million people, it couldn’t have moved any faster.

The attack is the same attack that the Left always uses, attempting to normalize behavior that is far beyond the norm, and then recasting anyone who would push back as bigoted.

The targets of the attacks from the Left are often the same, too – the most frequent is the atom of society – the family.  Families are the basic building block of civilization, and have been since Grug first knocked Gorga over the head and drug her back to the cave to make babies.

I wonder what the alternative is?

The Left hates families almost as much as they hate God.  Er, the Christian God.  In their mind, all other gods are the result of dimwitted (often brown) people who need to be pandered to and talked to like they are pets.  But families are the first targets.

Why?

Because it works.  Leftism has ripped the family apart through the use of things like welfare and no-fault divorce and divorce-rape of men.  The idea is that Progress for Leftist women can come via destruction of the family for Fun and Profit and Games and Prizes.  Imagine how this works when multiplied by race and class?

Well, you can’t say you weren’t warned . . .

Look around, and see it – the culture is coming apart.  The coming Civil War isn’t going to be an accident, since it’s already on someone’s schedule.

There's more at the link.

Read John Wilder's warning, then consider this.  How many of the criminals in our big cities grew up in stable families with both parents present?  How many of them went to school, learned, and graduated with a future ahead of them?  How many of them have sufficient education to get and hold a job?

You know, and I know, that most of them had none of those advantages.  They were feral youth, and now they're feral adults - and increasingly, they're running amok in our cities.

Folks, I'm just about done issuing this warning, because so few people are listening.  The only reason I do so again today is that my readers - most of them, anyway - are fundamentally good people who've just gotten too used to the situation.  They're suffering from confirmation bias.  They selectively note things that reinforce their status quo, and gloss over those that threaten it, because that's the most comfortable thing to do.  Unfortunately, that's very, very dangerous behavior.  Consider:

• That's what the Jews in Nazi Germany did when Hitler came to power.  A few of them saw the writing on the wall, and got out while they could.  Most, however, could not and would not believe that their neighbors would treat them that way.  They died in the concentration camps.
• That's what the white population in Rhodesia did when the terrorist onslaught began to worsen.  They could not believe that "their blacks" would hate them or want to take what they had.  They never even thought about the inevitability of demographics.  Five per cent of the population could not suppress the other ninety-five per cent forever - and thus Rhodesia became Zimbabwe, with consequences we all know.  South Africa took longer, but it went the same way.

There are plenty of other examples.  Right now, a lot of people living in big "blue" cities in America are telling themselves that things can't get that far out of hand, can't run out of control.  Surely the "authorities" will see to that?

If you think that, go back and re-read the articles with which I began this post... and think again.

Larger and larger areas of our "blue" cities are becoming dangerous concentrations of criminals, unstable individuals and quasi-families, and illegal aliens.  When that concentration reaches critical mass...

GET OUT OF "BLUE" BIG CITIES.  NOW.

Peter