DEMOCRAT TUMOR CITIES – PLANNED TOTALITARIANISM

Lewis Mumford’s Prophecies Come True

The crime, evil, decay, amorality, and horror of Democrat-controlled cities – almost all the big cities in America – is not an accident. It is not due to bad management, bad luck, or stupidity. What the democrats have done and will continue to do is part of a totalitarian plan to take over not only the cities, but the states and the entire nation. It is as if, instead of taking as warnings what many foresaw as the coming decline and disintegration of our country, the democrats saw these as an outline of a way to take power – total power.

It has been over half a century since Lewis Mumford’s dire predictions about “Necropolis” and “Megalopolis” in his 1961 A.D. classic, The City in History.  His predictions have now proven true regarding most large, for-decades democrat controlled, present-day cities in the United States, which are now the “tumor” cities Mumford predicted.

It remains to be seen if his further predictions will also come true – and that these democrat-controlled cities will be the basis for the “complete disruption and downfall” and “disintegration” of America.

Mumford’s Prophecies – Today’s Democrat Reality

Mumford’s prophecies sound like a summary history of the Democratic Party in America and what its programs, platforms, actions, and agendas have meant for big cities. These prophecies included:

the evils associated with “boundless expansion”

an “irrational misuse of science and “invention”

a “dehumanized” society”

“aimless giantism” leading to totalitarian control, to separation of social classses and to “general regimentation” of a “standardized” populace and

a “tentacular” bureaucracy.

Mumford refers to megalopolitan necropolitan cities as an embodiment of “socially retarded civilization” leading to an “encapsulated life,”  “Untouched by human hand at one end: untouched by human spirit at the other.”

He echoes the songwriter and poet, Mason Williams:

                            CITY

City

Is when

A bunch of people

Get together

So they can start

Being shitty to one another

For being

Too close together

Then they want applause

 

For surviving the problem

Called city they’ve caused

Cities go

From one

To minus zero

They’re put together well

Exactly wrong

Just like

Their throng

(Flavors. New York: Doubleday 1964)

This poem should be made the National Anthem for the Democratic Party and its Democrat Controlled Cities, “DCCs”.

The DCC Tumor cities

Mumford paints a picture of the modern city that is beyond bleak, a picture that again and again in democrat-controlled cities across America has become today’s sad, grim reality:

 “Random killing and limitless death gave their final stamp to the realities of megalopolitan expansion . .  . a “tumorous organ” . . .  a “spider . . .   “undifferentiated urban tissue” . . .  a “man-sewer” . . .; and “cancerous tumors”

“In short, every successful institution of the metropolis repeats in its own organization the aimless giantism of the whole” (Mumford 531). The Democrat Controlled Cities are Mumford’s tumor cities.

By pushing all forms of traffic onto high speed motor ways, we burden them with a load guaranteed to slow down peak traffic to a crawl; and if we try to correct this by multiplying motor ways, we only add to the total urban wreckage by flinging the parts of the city ever farther away in a formless mass of thinly spread semi-urban tissue (Mumford 508).

Paul Ramsey’s single line poem, On Industrialism describes these DCCs:

The Road to Hell is paved

(Ramsey, Paul. “On Industrialism.” The Bedford Introduction to            Literature. Ed. Michael Meyer. Boston: St. Martins, 1990).

Mumford sees the insidious social isolation caused by DCC megalopolitan cities as having political implications: “Suburbia offers poor facilities for meeting, conversation, collective debate, and common action – it favors silent conformity, not rebellion or counter-attack. So Suburbia has become the favored home of a new kind of absolutism: invisible but all-powerful. (Mumford, 513).

The political debate and social interplay in the Athenian forum or outside the Globe Theater in Shakespeare’s London do not occur in present-day ­­­­­­­DCC tumor  cities simply because groups of people, small or large, either do not encounter each other periodically in settings that lend themselves to such activity or, when social events occur, politics is not at the top of the list of what to do in the minimal time available for leisure.

A telling indicator of the coming-to-be in present-day DCC tumor  cities of the absolutism to which Mumford refers is the incredibly small number of qualified voters who vote in many elections at any level – city, county, state, or nation.  A forty per-cent voter turnout in many DCCs for any election is phenomenal.  Often a winner in a DCC city receives votes from less than 10% of the eligible voters, and this is sometimes as low as less than 3%.

Plethora of Data

To get an idea of just how bad the DCC tumor cities are, do an internet search with the words “democrat controlled,” “cities,” and any of the following:

Corruption

Decay

Murder

Violent crime

Economic segregation

Housing segregation

School segregation

Illegal voting

Fraudulent voting

Riots

Looting

Vandalism

Hope ?

Mumford sees little, if any, hope for a megalopolis like the present-day DCC tumor cities. He  speaks of “the final stage of disintegration;” refers to the situation as “hopeless;” and calls such cities a “death trap.”  Weekend murder statistics for many of these DCC tumor cities show how true is the description of “death trap.”  Mumford’s only solution is very idealistic:

So with cities:  to correct the deficiencies of our over-mechanized civilization, we shall have to build up a multi-centered system of control, with a sufficient development of morality, intelligence, and self-respect to be able to arrest the automatic processes – mechanical, bureaucratic, organizational – at any point where human life is in danger or the human personality is threatened with loss of values and choices.

Mumford’s cure is as utopian as anything proposed by Plato or More. It is also directly contrary to Democratic Party goals, programs, and agendas, both local and national, and would mean their loss of control and power, not only in their DCC tumor cities, but on a national level as well.

Democrats Thrive on the Division They Create

The other main reason Mumford’s cure will not work is that – with its intentionally democrat-caused divisions – there is no consensus, and planned bitter acrimony, about morality and politics on many basic issues.  Without a consensus on such issues, a population cannot unite in a common pursuit of the general welfare.  The very definition of “general welfare” is in dispute in the DCC tumor cities.

A consensus on anything would limit and heal division, but the democrats power is based on division – division caused by them.