How can forward thinking decision makers like her be attracted to Detroit?

[Detroitnerd]

Are you proud of all the blatant corruption uncovered in city government and the school administration? Get off your high horse and recognize that it's just a nag. You whine about not getting help, fight help when it's provided, and then bitch about needing it. The city has been mismanaged for far, far too long. Accept it and move on because that's the ONLY way anything even approaching regionalism is going to occur.

Haha. Oh, yeah, right. I'm real proud of Detroit's kleptrocracy. Whatever.

Yes, the city has been mismanaged. That's because it's a place where people are so poor and so poorly educated, they're easy prey for a class of political hucksters to gain power. But, of course, they're just one side of the coin. The other side are the suburban politicians who are only too happy to have Detroit mismanaged. Less competition for them.

Sound far-fetched? Take it from somebody who works downtown. I used to see all those Detroit politicians you love to hate coming out of Sweet Georgia Brown down here. Guess who they were having lunch with? Your hero suburban leaders. And everybody was smiling. That's the idea, lilpup: Detroit isn't supposed to have low taxes, good leadership or sensible regulations. That would provide competition for the suburban governments. So everybody's happy this way: Detroit's political class gets to peddle its corruption, suburban leaders get the business the city won't, and suburban residents are free to act like they have nothing to do with the problem.

The REAL problem is we have zero REGIONAL vision for the REGION. A region of dozens of fragmented city governments ensures that this will go on and on and nobody will have an interest in a working city, desirable suburbs and productive farmland all working in concert. Instead we'll just a bunch of hothead gasbags warming up the blogosphere.

So go ahead and make your smug declarations. That's why we have the Detroit we do, so you can enjoy blaming the city for being the ongoing disaster it's supposed to be. Kind of comical to watch somebody who'd never lift a finger to help get all red-faced and angry and lob insults. As if you cared ...

Speaking of high horses ...