09/03/2025
I've seen multiple posts which read that Trump only sends troops to blue cities...Well, most cities in the U.S., with a few exceptions, are run by blue. (Dallas and FW have Republican mayors...but they represent one vote of a council, only...the real power isn't in the mayors office.) I'm not sure there are many others, anymore. The posts go on to state, Trump is not sending them to red STATES where crime is higher. The reason crime is high in red states is because of the blue cities within. The difference is clear as to why: Red states can't control blue cities, but those states are not PRO-criminal, as so many blue governors seem to be. (Look no further than Austin...the state has little to no control over that whacko city council and crime is high.). Criminals deserve to be imprisoned. The governor of Illinois, a billionaire who doesn't have to live in a bad part of town, says you can't imprison your way out of crime. Fine, but experiment with social programs on your own time and own dime. Meanwhile, we want to be safe...it's what our taxes are for...and in Illinois, our exorbitant taxes. Imprison our way out of this?...I say, let's give it a shot. (These types also said we couldn't drill our way out of oil shortages and high prices. We did.) The problem with this kind of thinking is it's static. It assumes nothing changes. That's demonstrably wrong. We as citizens are not "sentenced" to live with crime all around us. We simply must take steps to change it. By the way....in Chicago last weekend...there were 54 shootings. Think people in those neighborhoods don't want help? Think those 54 shooters deserve prison? I'll bet their victims do.