More of us have figured that out than it appears. Corruption gets hard to ignore when it is kicking you in the teeth... [[where's that ambulance we called half an hour ago!?)
'Self-interest' democratically inspired locally or otherwise and elsewhere was the supreme politic impacting Detroit for a long time. It was mostly smooth over by those who where getting some fringe benefits [[urban and suburban).
That has finally gotten old to celebrate peripherally - justifiably, without tangible cash flow, corrupt or otherwise. How long could it really go on?
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