Yeah, I spent my childhood in Detroit. It is not a place to learn confidence in government.
It's gotten smaller and worse since then. I have little hope for the city. It either needs radical surgery to break it up into smaller, more concentrated separate cities so that maybe someone will restore some growth and sanity (with the rest of the land going to the state); or it has to depopulate so much that it just collapses and reverts to Wayne County. Sorry, Wayne County.
But concentrating people in order to abandon large sections of the city would mix gang members together from different territories. So that's a fun prospect for that solution.
Maybe General Petraeus should become mayor of Detroit.
City Council should be banished from the city for all the good those clowns impede.
Over the years, I'd get my hopes up that someone could spark a recovery. Now I just hope the city reaches bottom faster so that the recovery from the nadir can start sooner.
About Me
- Brian J. Dunn
- I live and write in Ann Arbor, Michigan. University of Michigan AB and MA from Eastern Michigan University. One term in the Michigan Army National Guard. Former American history instructor and retired nonpartisan research analyst. I write on Blogger and Substack. Various military and private journals have published my occasional articles on military subjects. See "My Published Works" on the TDR web version or under the mobile version drop-down menu for citations and links.
