Those "...safe/prosperous/white/suburban/family neighborhoods just a few miles away." are not provided by political leaders night-timer; they are provided by the people that live in them without the expectation that somebody should do it for them and are built on decades of self-reliance. They automatically understand how to lead individual lives for the benefit of the whole.The political leaders might lead them like a conductor leads a Orchestra but it's the people that carry the load. No political leader could lead them if they weren't responsive; it would become an anarchy.