Despite public frustration over rising crime and failing schools, Brandon Johnson's victory means the city's decline as a laboratory for progressive governance will continue and more companies will consider following the example, the recent exits of Caterpillar, Boeing, and Citadel. The editorial board summarized the Chicago election this way, "The Chicago runoff was a battle between the moderate and progressive wings of the Democratic Party and the left won.
Speaking of the liberal side, the political left, The Wall Street Journal ran a headline last week, The left wins big in Midwest elections. Speaking of left, one of the reasons that the candidate of the left won is because so many people who would've voted against him left the city. They basically just went with another candidate from the far left. So they didn't nonetheless make a correction. In a recent citywide election in particular, the runoff for the election of Chicago's next mayor, Chicago went left again, way left again, and that's after you had voters repudiate the incumbent, very liberal mayor of Chicago because of all kinds of problems, including spiking crime rates. So as you have states that are more dominated by rural areas, they tend to be red, not blue, cities tend to be blue, or at least blueish or purple, even in red states.īeing in a city makes a difference, and evidently, being in a city means you can also politically and morally speaking just lose your mind, such as the case right now in a city that's becoming a parable of our age, and that city is the city of Chicago. In the United States, cities are generally far more liberal than more rural areas. So when you consider the city and you consider temptation, concentration of human hubris and other things, this is a very old story, but it's also as new as the headlines just these days. But if you put the Bible together, Old Testament and New Testament, there's a very realistic understanding of the city. In the New Testament, even human cities are translated not just from a negative view, but to a positive role in terms of mobilization for the gospel and the planting of churches and the reaching of populations.
The New Testament has so many books named for cities because they were letters written by apostles to these cities, most importantly, the Apostle Paul. One pastor, by the way, in a modern city told me that he says to young Christians moving to his church and his city that they better watch out because they're about to find out who they are, because just about everything in terms not only of ideas and ideologies, but all kinds of temptations can be found in a city, whereas, they cannot be found in the same way in the countryside or in more rural areas. That shift in the New Testament, by the way, also at least has an analogy in the fact that Jerusalem is described not only in terms of its prophetic identity and its geographical and theological significance, but also an anticipation of a new Jerusalem in which the kingdom of Christ actually is described, at least in part in terms of a redeemed city.īut the New Testament is also very honest about cities, honest about the fact that cities are indeed pools of all kinds of temptation. You go down the entire series, injustice, unrighteousness, but there is a shift in the New Testament. The city is condemned by the prophets for their unbelief, for their lust. A city is seen as a place of human arrogance. In the Old Testament, there is an almost exclusively negative view of the city. By the way, one theme of biblical theology is how the city is considered in the Old Testament and in the New Testament. Yes, the cities turn out to be far more liberal, not only in terms of contemporary American culture, but throughout most of history. The point is, the closer you get to the cultural creatives, the closer you get to the coast. The closer you get to a coast, the closer you get to a city, the closer you get to a campus, well the closer you get to moral progressivism or liberalism, the coast, the campus, the city, and you could add some other words as well.
#ALLYSIA FINLEY SERIES#
When it comes to worldview, geography matters, and I often describe this in terms of a series of words that begin with C.
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