Dittoville

UPDATE 5/6/26: We’re wrongly led to believe that the Woke politicians driving the rich and productive from their domains are shortsighted fools. On the contrary, it’s a cynical political strategy being exercised by Mamdani, the Woke Seattle mayor and those other deep Blue cities and states deliberately expelling wealth from their midst. It’s called the Curley Effect, deliberately winnowing their constituency down to the poor, dependent and helpless, ensuring unchallenged power over the long haul. It worked in Boston for Mayor Curley in Boston for decades, and it will turn New York into Mamdani’s very own, impoverished despotic fiefdom.

UPDATE 5/6/26: We’re wrongly led to believe that the Woke politicians driving the rich and productive from their domains are shortsighted fools. On the contrary, it’s a cynical political strategy being exercised by Mamdani, the Woke Seattle mayor and those other deep Blue cities and states deliberately expelling wealth from their midst. It’s called the Curley Effect, deliberately winnowing their constituency down to the poor, dependent and helpless, ensuring unchallenged power over the long haul. It worked in Boston for Mayor Curley in Boston for decades, and it will turn New York into Mamdani’s very own, impoverished despotic fiefdom.

UPDATE 8/27/20: Referring back to The Curley Effect, the Leftist politicians actively supporting the  laying waste to their own cities again makes sense. In a rational universe, even the Trump-hating mayors and governors would’ve welcomed law enforcement aid from the Fed. But not when anarchy and public desperation are strategies for attaining more power. Drive out the rich & productive and totally control what’s left.

ORIGINAL POST 10/19/15: “James Michael Curley, a four-time mayor of Boston, used wasteful redistribution to his poor Irish constituents and incendiary rhetoric to encourage richer citizens to emigrate from Boston, thereby shaping the electorate in his favor. As a consequence, Boston stagnated, but Curley kept winning elections.”

The Curley Effect: the driving away of productive wealth (free market, competitive capitalism) for the sole purpose of creating a permanently dependent (poor) voting bloc (socialism).

For concrete examples, pay a visit to  today’s rotting Detroit, wobbly California, contemporary France, Rahm Emanuel’s Chicago, most other large Inner Cities, well underway now nationwide thanks to Obama.