From opposing viewpoints the dots still connect.
Detroit Case Study in Liberal Destruction tells us:
For nearly half a century, from 1913 through 1962, Detroit was managed by Republican Mayors 90% of the time (45 years of Republican Administrations and only five years for Democrats). During that time, Detroit became a powerhouse for business and the people of Detroit benefited. By 1960, the people of Detroit had the highest per capita income of any city in the United States.
Detroit has not elected a single Republican mayor since 1962. The mayor who had the greatest impact on the economic direction taken by Detroit was Coleman Young, who ruled over his kingdom for nearly two decades from 1974 to 1993.
From Social counterrevolution in Detroit, an article found on the World Socialist Website, we find:
Who are the people who are demanding that Detroit workers return to conditions last seen in the 1930s?
Orr, a wealthy Wall Street lawyer, is well connected to the Democratic Party and the Obama administration. In the 2009 restructuring of the auto industry carried out by Obama, he played a key role in the destruction of the wages and benefits of auto workers, representing Chrysler in bankruptcy court. Orr speaks for the hyenas of Wall Street who see a dollar spent on a worker’s health care or retirement as a dollar stolen from their pockets.
The rape of Detroit is of a piece with the Obama administration’s nationwide assault on the working class. Orr’s move to dump city workers onto Obama’s cut-rate medical exchanges underscores the reactionary and anti-working class character of his health care overhaul, which includes incentives for employers to end their health insurance programs.
Orr’s attack on workers’ benefits is an expression of the dictatorship exercised by the financial oligarchy in the United States over all aspects of life. Neither the needs of society, nor public opinion, nor the law have any impact on their drive to enrich themselves.
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