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From: liberal-crimes@barackobama.com

Editor's note: The following column originally appeared in the
Washington Times.

All around us failed Democratic leadership is insisting on being
recognized. As Baltimore, a great American city, teeters on a
precipice, media and politicians still tiptoe around the truth,
knowing if reality was actually acknowledged, the entire liberal
narrative would collapse.

Thirty years of liberal leadership is dooming Baltimore. Mayor
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, a Democrat, is also the secretary of
the Democratic National Committee. She is now infamous for her
comments at a press conference during the riots that she wanted
police "to make sure that the protesters were able to exercise
their right to free speech," and announced, "we also gave those
who wished to destroy space to do that as well."

Ms. Rawlings-Blake has since said her comments were taken out of
context, but I found them refreshingly honest. Finally, a
Democrat admitted the agenda. Later, a senior law enforcement
official told Fox News that the mayor had issued a stand-down
order to the police during the riots.

Cities such as Baltimore, Detroit, Los Angeles and New York
don't just suddenly lose their minds and mysteriously decline
into a state of nature. Having no trust in the citizen, liberal
politicians feel it is their duty to micromanage people's lives.
Because, you see, they're better than us and they're gonna prove
it.

A native Baltimorean, Ms. Rawlings-Blake's father was a member
of the Maryland House of Delegates, and in the early 1990s she
was a lobbyist for Young Democrats of Maryland. She represents a
long history of liberal activism that has consigned so many in
Baltimore to despair and hopelessness.

Cities such as Baltimore, Detroit, Los Angeles and New York
don't just suddenly lose their minds and mysteriously decline
into a state of nature. Having no trust in the citizen, liberal
politicians feel it is their duty to micromanage people's lives.
Because, you see, they're better than us and they're gonna prove
it.

Consider the condition of Freddie Gray's Baltimore neighborhood.
Mr. Gray's death while in police custody is what started
protests, which degenerated into self-serving riots by thugs,
victimizing the entire community.

On Friday, the new city prosecutor charged six police officers
involved with Mr. Gray's arrest and death with several offenses.
The fact is, though, the horrible series of events we're facing
is only a byproduct of decades of political abuse and
abandonment of a community.

Christopher Ingraham of The Washington Post linked on Twitter to
a February 2015 report from the Justice Policy Institute and
Prison Policy Initiative. He tweeted this shocking reality: "Jaw-
dropping stats on Freddie Gray's Baltimore neighborhood: half of
residents not working, 33 percent of homes vacant."

Those statistics (through just 2012) tell us even more about
what decades of liberal leadership gets you: 51.8 percent
unemployment for those ages 16 to 64; families receiving federal
welfare assistance: 25 percent; 9th-12th grade students
chronically absent: 49.3 percent; population 25 years and older
without a high school diploma: 60.7 percent; number of narcotics
calls per 1,000 residents: 464.8; mortality rate for 15-25 year-
olds: 19 per 1000.

If numbers could illustrate despair and hopelessness, these
would do it. One of the arguments from the report is redirecting
funds from prisons would help the community. Yet more money
doesn't cure incompetence and malevolence. Democrats keep
arguing it's the "1 percent" and insist the issue is race-based.
For a city run by Democrats, mostly African-American, and a
police department that is comprised almost evenly of white and
black officers, that usual liberal narrative doesn't hold water.

Bottom line: Generations of Democratic so-called leadership is
why so many great American cities are in trouble — they're
imploding under the weight of generations of hopeless, victim-
based liberal politics and polities.

Cities such as Baltimore, Detroit, Los Angeles and New York
don't just suddenly lose their minds and mysteriously decline
into a state of nature. Having no trust in the citizen, liberal
politicians feel it is their duty to micromanage people's lives.
Because, you see, they're better than us and they're gonna prove
it.

In New York, once again under the boot of the liberal menace,
the Democratic city council speaker is proposing decriminalizing
"minor" offenses, like urinating in public, drinking in public,
jumping turnstiles to beat fares, littering, riding a bike on
the sidewalk, being in a park after dark and making excessive
noise.

All these activities make a neighborhood unsafe and unlivable.
They may seem minor, but they speak directly to the quality of
life. One of the arguments is arresting people for these crimes
disproportionately affects people of color in their own
neighborhoods.

The truth is pandering to the creeps and losers in society
condemns the law-abiding in those neighborhoods to a
disgustingly lower quality of life. All in the name of improving
the quality of life for people of color.

No matter what your complexion, no one wants to step over a
puddle of human urine while avoiding the biker on the sidewalk
after you've had no sleep because the police won't come for the
drunk jerk honking his horn and screaming all night long, only
to be hit in the face by another jerk throwing his to-go coffee
cup outside his car. Because littering, not a big deal.

This is the madness wrought by liberals. Crime goes up, people
move away, buildings become vacant, depression increases, crime
increases, cities collapse. Combine that with the liberal
economic punch in the gut of regulations and taxes that
discourage entrepreneurs, destroy small businesses and jobs, and
you have the typical American city run into the ground by your
friendly neighborhood I-feel-your-pain, hope-and-change Democrat.

Last week New Yorkers also heard their city council was
contemplating ordering the "dimming" of the New York skyline.
Why? Because bright lights interfere with the comfort of the
nesting sea turtle. And disturb monarch butterflies. And upset
the mating habits of frogs. Seriously.

Last year, Maryland rejected the successor to its fool of a
governor, Martin O'Malley, and gave the job to a Republican. The
new Baltimore prosecutor is from Boston. The people of Maryland
and their great city perhaps are realizing they need to choose
different leadership if they are to survive. I hope all great
American cities under the liberal boot are realizing that as
well.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2015/05/04/generations-democratic-
leaders-have-doomed-baltimore-and-other-

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