Burning cities and fleeing mayors

September 10, 2020 By Joseph Sorrentino

What happens when one’s politics loses all contact with reality? It might look something like what’s currently unfolding in Democrat-led cities across the country. These urban centers of America, so-called bastions of progressive thought and ideology, have unraveled before our eyes over the last few months and are now engulfed in widespread violence, looting, and arson. Mobs of rioters, or as CNN calls them, “mostly peaceful protestors,” have grown by the day and so have their menacing antics.

And now, the mayors are fleeing.

The same mayors who have defended, and even promoted, acts of anarchy in their cities in the name of social justice and have repeatedly rejected offers of federal assistance to quell violence are now feeling that it’s getting a little too close for comfort. For them, the abstractions of their political revolution have become real, and that reality is apparently a little bit frightening.

In Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler said Tuesday he will move from his $840,000 condominium because of repeated protests there. Wheeler said it would be “best for me and for everyone else’s safety and peace” that he finds a new home, the Oregonian reported. Before taking refuge, Mayor Ted Wheeler openly rejected help from the National Guard, even posting an open letter online expressing his refusal, despite more than three straight months of protests and violence..........To Read More.....