Detroit: The Intellectual, Moral, and Fiscal Rot Finally Won

United Artists Theater, Detroit               Photo by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre

Readers know that Detroit is a continuing topic here at OTR. Time has been precious lately with few observations on my part, so I'm deferring to Scott Johnson's link-filled post on Power Line to address the city's bankruptcy.

I never saw Detroit as a prosperous city, only as a cold, tarnished, crumbling, seemingly uninhabited place in 2003. On the other hand, I knew many of her siblings, including Cleveland, Akron, Pittsburgh, Buffalo and more, long before they became part of the Rust Belt.  Some of those cities did well over the past generation by adopting fiscal realism and reinvention instead of persisting with the collectivist liberalism that consumed Detroit.

There's a lesson here screaming to be learned. We can only hope our current crop of "leaders" listen.