Chicago, San Francisco, and Other Progressive Utopias
12th July 2016
Steven Hayward of Powerline blog shares his experience.
I spent the day in Chicago yesterday, where I lucked into my first ever up close up encounter with a Black Lives Matter march. (Photos nearby.) The throng blocked the intersection at Wacker Avenue and the Chicago River downtown right at the beginning of the evening rush hour. The police did nothing to disperse the crowd; to the contrary, they police enabled the march to proceed. One fellow got up in my face and said that my “silence is violence.” I suggested to him that he didn’t really want to see me when I’m noisy. I’ve got some video, too, but I have to board an airplane in a few minutes and it takes a while to post.
Chicago is, of course, run by Democrats, and has been time out of mind. If it’s a hotbed of racism, who’s to blame?