Addicts Have to Hit Rock Bottom

And Chicago is on the way. Brandon Johnson and the Unraveling of Chicago | Chicago Contrarian

Johnson’s election drew national attention as most pundits were stunned that after four years of the chaos under Mayor Lori Lightfoot, voters had rejected the more moderate Democrat Paul Vallas for the uber progressive Johnson. Yet days after Johnson’s election as mayor, chaos erupted downtown as hundreds of youths descended on the Loop to wreak havoc. In the three-day period between April 13-15, hundreds of teens massed at 31st Street Beach or in the Loop to smash car windshields, beat people, loot stores, climb on CTA buses, and cause general chaos. Responding to this criminality and antisocial disorder, Johnson waved it off as kids “doing silly things.”

I'm not sure what it is that Chicago is addicted to, aside from the dream of a Progressive Utopia, but when I look at what is going on in that city - in a lot of cities - it is pretty far from Utopia of any flavor. But then doing the same thing and expecting a different outcome is one definition of insanity.

Anyone still in the city should get out, if they can.