(Good. If they were too fucking stupid to do their research, they’ll be getting what they asked for. They may as well be buying the Brooklyn Bridge sight-unseen. Shame on their countrymen who are selling them on this crap, though.)
This being said, the problem stems as much from decline of manufacturing/realignment as it does from extreme and prolific corruption in Detroit. Cities have had one problem or the other and survived, but typically not both.
Chicago: extremely corrupt, but with a fairly diverse economy still.
Pittsburgh: no extreme corruption (some as always), but had to go through massive realignment after “Big Steel” died out in the US.[/quote]
Detroit’s problems go back at least 5 decades. Manufacturing job losses, the race riots, population decline, the racism towards its first black mayor back in the mid-70’s, when both businesses and other politicians rejected his leadership and policies irrespective of their benefits for the people of Detroit, corruption, unions, even the way the city was designed, constructed, and developed. And more. It isn’t any two things. And it isn’t like any other city. Nor can it be repaired like any other city.
