{"id":101311,"date":"2024-04-13T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2024-04-13T16:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101311"},"modified":"2024-04-13T11:34:08","modified_gmt":"2024-04-13T16:34:08","slug":"101311","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=101311","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Democrat-Run St. Louis Enters \u2018Doom Loop.\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe office district is empty, with boarded up towers, copper thieves, and failing retail,\u201d reports the\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/em>of Democrat-run St. Louis, Missouri. \u201c[E]ven the Panera outlet shut down. The city is desperately trying to reverse the \u2018doom loop.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at the mayoral history of the doom-looping St. Louis, shall we?<\/p>\n

Oh, look, there hasn\u2019t been a Republican mayor in St. Louis since \u2014 not a typo \u2014 1949<\/a>. For 75 years, the people of St. Louis have voted for More of the Same, so excuse me if I don\u2019t whip out a violin over all this unavoidable doom looping.<\/p>\n

\u201cCities such as San Francisco and Chicago are trying to save their downtown office districts from spiraling into a doom loop,\u201d writes the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>. \u201cSt. Louis is already trapped in one.\u201d<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Journal<\/em>\u00a0notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n

As offices sit empty, shops and restaurants close and abandoned buildings become voids that suck the life out of the streets around them. Locals often find boarded-up buildings depressing and empty sidewalks scary. So even\u00a0fewer people commute downtown.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

This self-reinforcing cycle accelerated in recent years as the pandemic emptied offices. St. Louis\u2019s central business district had the steepest drop in foot traffic of 66 major North American cities between the start of the pandemic and last summer, according to the University of Toronto\u2019s School of Cities. Traffic has improved some in the past 12 months, but at a slower rate than many Midwestern cities.<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the immortal words of Jerry Seinfeld:\u00a0Yeah, that\u2019s a shame.<\/em><\/p>\n

Back in 2006, downtown\u2019s AT&T Tower building sold for $205 million. In 2022, it sold for $4 million.<\/p>\n

Crime, naturally, is a problem. The\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>\u00a0describes a barbecue joint\u2019s smoker pierced with a bullet hole, businesses already struggling forced to pay for private security, broken windows, graffiti, otherwise empty roads filled with reckless drivers, buildings destroyed by the homeless and copper thieves\u2026<\/p>\n

The city is trying to regroup with $50,000 cash payouts to small businesses that open up downtown. There\u2019s a campaign that\u2019s \u201cadding landscaping, bike lanes, and traffic barriers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The idea is \u201cto put more people on the street doing positive things,\u201d Kurt Weigle of Greater St. Louis Inc. told the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Democrats can either do something about reducing crime, taxes, and regulations or not. That\u2019s what it comes down to. Bike lanes in a city where people drive like maniacs make about as much sense as screen doors on submarines.<\/p>\n

I lived in a Midwest downtown for a couple of years in the mid-80s. There\u2019s nothing better than a vibrant, safe downtown atmosphere with all the people and plenty to do, including the free amusement of the library, bookstores, and museums. This didn\u2019t have to happen to St. Louis or San Francisco. Over the past century, Americans learned how to govern modern cities and reduce crime. The reversal of those policies was a deliberate decision made by Democrats. The fact that those Democrats remain in office is a deliberate decision made by voters. None of them deserve your sympathy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democrat-Run St. Louis Enters \u2018Doom Loop.\u2019 \u201cThe office district is empty, with boarded up towers, copper thieves, and failing retail,\u201d reports the\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0of Democrat-run St. Louis, Missouri. \u201c[E]ven the Panera outlet shut down. The city is desperately trying to reverse the \u2018doom loop.\u2019\u201d Let\u2019s look at the mayoral history of the doom-looping St. Louis, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goobermint"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101312,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101311\/revisions\/101312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}