The virtue of Dickery

Even beyond Freeper circles, the right takes it as truth that Detroit's problems are all completely caused by liberalism. "Never mind the collapse of the auto industry and white flight," they say - "if only they'd lowered taxes and banned abortion, they'd totally be right on track!"

But alas, none of them are willing to live there. Instead, they are enjoying the suffering as the city they've decided typifies liberalsm continues to founder. And they've rationalized this glee as compassionate assholery - this is tough love, pettiness, and if the libs don't get it then that only proves they're the real assholes!

Norm Lenhart explains that liberals have forced him into being a dick:

the left changed the rules. Today they have do degraded the common sense of society that it takes Idioctacy level ‘debate’ to reach the American public. So if mockery on a grand scale is needed, and it is, we would be remiss, if not outright suicidal to avoid using it.

Shunning/public scorn is a lost art. When it was in vogue, it worked. It will work again since the ego of the leftist is his weakness

Sirius Lee cites Alinsky:

if mockery on a grand scale is needed, and it is, we would be remiss, if not outright suicidal to avoid using it.

Freeze the target. Isolate it. And ridicule it.

Time for Conservatives to shove alinsky method right back in their liberal faces.

LibLieSlayer doesn't bother to rationalize, and revels in his lack of empathy:

I am laughing at them and I do not care about them... their dim masters blamed all of us (yesterday's dnc talking point spewed even on fox) and our “republican economic policies over the past 60 years” for their failures in detroit so I am enjoying the death spiral of detroit!

AlexW thinks New York is gonna collapse soon.

I do not think they should be “LAUGHING”. They should be shaking their heads in disgust.
It will next come to a city near you, as Obamunisim consumes more and more of America.

DH is dancing with joy, but only because of how teachable this moment is, mind you:

we should be laughing.

The vermin left in Detroit are the same maggots that caused it to fail.

The reason for celebration is that this is “the poster boy” so to speak for liberalism and Democrat rule in our country. Celebration is due to the fact that this is the first example to the voting public that Socialism and Marxism does not work in a free society......and it is finally starting to fail.

Yes! Celebration is sorely due.

SMARTY preemptively protests that this isn't tribal, it's because of logic that he doesn't have time to go into right now:

I especially loved/love the way Liberals beat us over the head for what they call our Conservative greed and lack of compassion. I loved/love the way they cast these insults in our face AS IF Conservatives would condemn any city to this kind of thing, JUST because they are Liberals.

ArrogantBustard prescribes 20 cc's of slogans, stat!

You want solutions? Here's a solution, that works for all Americans (not just those in cities): FREEDOM. Constitutional, limited government. Very limited government. Respect for private property, private industry, private enterprise, and private labor. Stable rule of law, not capitulation to the demands of violent mobs.

It's so simple that a government bureaucrat can't understand it.

agere_contra has no pity:

We don't owe Detroit a damn thing. Let it die!

Detroit is a parasitic municipality - a legal entity with vast untenable obligations and no means to pay. I don't know about you but I don't feel sorry for parasites. If they're attached to me I don't feel bad when they fall off and die.

And we are not 'all in this together'. In what sense are we 'all in it together' when we are not all enjoying extremely lucrative pensions?

agere_contra gets back to the compassion of being an asshole, because cities aren't people. But also laugh at the downtrodden people too:

The solution for Detroit IS its agonizing death. That’s the way out. That solves everything.

Cities aren’t people. They don’t have immortal souls. It’s OK to laugh at their ‘deaths’.

We’re laughing at Detroit because it’s funny to watch socialism crash and burn.

We also laughing because the unbelievably stupid voters of Detroit need to hear our laughter and to realize what their sloth, envy and causal racism have won them - lasting shame and ignominy.

Don’t apologize! Detroit is dying and needs to completely die before its toxins can be purged. This is creative destruction. There will never be a New Detroit until the Old Detroit is dead. The current train-wreck is just the first step towards the rise of a new city.