Tornado Alley (PROG)

[ForReal]

One sided RW polemic that overlooks the reality of GOP incompetency at a national level.

There is so much wrong with that, that I don't know where to begin. An all encompassing rebuttal would be......

"Figures never lie, but liars always figure". But a few salient points....

Economy: Of course the wages in more heavily populated areas is true. But, that is driven by the cost of living in those areas. Quality of life is a more important factor. Where wages are low, rents and groceries are cheaper.

Crime: Those crime figures are misleading, when you consider a couple of factors. The violent crimes in less densely populated areas are those of passion. A neighbor pisses off his neighbor and violence ensues because a dog is left to poop on a neighbors lawn or a man catches his wife with the local car dealer. Where as, in more heavily populated areas, crime is attributed to the violent nature of those that are packed together and tension results or the cost of living is so high a lower paid social class must commit crimes like robbery, drug dealing to survive. And often, those crimes lead to violence.

You can twist and turn the figures all day long, but you can never convince me that it is safer to walk the streets of South Chicago, Detroit or LA, than it is to walk the streets of a city with a Republican Mayor. Believe what you want, but I've actually lived in both environments.