{"id":49986,"date":"2023-04-12T14:28:52","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T18:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49986"},"modified":"2023-04-12T14:28:52","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T18:28:52","slug":"will-the-democrats-survive-their-2024-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49986","title":{"rendered":"Will The Democrats Survive Their 2024 Convention?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the summary of the yearly murders in Chicago from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/breaking\/ct-chicago-homicides-data-tracker-20220426-iedehzuq5jdofbhwt3v2w6cjoy-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Chicago Tribune<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ChicagoMurdersYearly.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-49987 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ChicagoMurdersYearly.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ChicagoMurdersYearly.png 800w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ChicagoMurdersYearly-300x252.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ChicagoMurdersYearly-768x645.png 768w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/ChicagoMurdersYearly-357x300.png 357w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>That is roughly 58 murders a month. That is an improvement from 2021, but it is still a high number. To put this in perspective, in March 2023, New York City had 35 murders according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/nypd\/news\/p00077\/nypd-citywide-crime-statistics-march-2023\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York City Police Department<\/a> crime statistics. So where am I going with this?<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/spencerbrown\/2023\/04\/11\/democrats-choose-host-city-for-2024-convention-n2621808\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Breitbart<\/a> reported that the Democrats will hold their 2024 Convention in Chicago. I guess they have forgotten the mess the 1968 Democrat convention was in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Nothing says &#8220;look at what Democrats can do!&#8221; quite like a city ravaged by crime and run by Lori Lightfoot who was such a successful Democrat leader that her overwhelmingly Democrat constituents fired her unceremoniously and chose an even more radical Democrat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>&#8230;Chicago won out over other finalist cities including New York, Atlanta \u2014 Guy <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2023\/02\/01\/democrats-hey-lets-hold-our-2024-convention-in-that-racist-jim-crow-20-state-n2618960\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explained that irony<\/a> earlier \u2014 and Houston. According to the DNC, Chicago was the right choice because it demonstrates &#8220;<span id=\"m_-7311647394849019439m_8254849319976469682gmail-docs-internal-guid-247d324a-7fff-058a-98df-470222b97f2f\">the formidable coalition that will help re-elect President Biden and Vice President Harris, and elect Democrats up-and-down the ticket&#8221; and the region &#8220;will showcase President Biden\u2019s economic agenda that is rebuilding our roads and bridges, unleashing a manufacturing boom, and creating good-paying middle-class jobs.&#8221;\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>President Joe Biden called Chicago a &#8220;great choice&#8221; for the 2024 convention at which the Democrat nominee will be finalized, even though Biden still hasn&#8217;t announced whether he&#8217;s running for reelection. Biden promised that &#8220;Democrats will gather to showcase our historic progress including building an economy from the middle out and bottom up,&#8221; though it&#8217;s unclear how real wage-crushing inflation has accomplished that or kept his 2020 promise to &#8220;build back better.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article also notes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>To be clear, any positive experience DNC attendees have in Chicago will be due not to the city&#8217;s failed leaders, but because the convention experience will take place within a walled-off, patrolled by armed security perimeter to provide security and safety that Windy City residents have been stripped of by Democrat policies.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Walls and photo identification requirements for me, but not for thee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the summary of the yearly murders in Chicago from The Chicago Tribune: That is roughly 58 murders a month. That is an improvement from 2021, but it is still a high number. To put this in perspective, in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=49986\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16447,10348,14507,739,1219,13372,12767],"class_list":["post-49986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2024-democrat-convention","tag-breitbart","tag-build-back-better","tag-chicago","tag-new-york-city-police-department","tag-president-biden","tag-the-chicago-tribune"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49988,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49986\/revisions\/49988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}