Because we are going to lose Detroit, this time.
Our great French-founded city! Not only those long ago fox-trappers, but Motor City and Motown. Enormous in our history.
In our Shock Doctrine world we come to bury a city. Emergency management. Mitt Romney's wet dream. Let GM fail! Mitt's ancestral home is a gutted property. History no longer matters.
After drowning New Orleans, it got easier.
I have been reading "Detroit City is the Place to Be: The Afterlife of an American Metropolis" and had a flickering of hope that some literal grass-roots initiatives would prevail.
community gardening
But it looks like Detroit will become a charter city, much like public schools become charter schools and good investments for hedge fund folks.Privatise