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Yet in some shape form or fashion the county judge and Mayor still assimilate on some level to the Lilly white political structure that is the American 2 party system.
Exactly. The 2 party system in the US is essentially one big party. Both are "neoliberals" and "neoconservatives" to the extreme. They only differ on social issues in order to try to sell themselves as "opposing" parties to voters. Even then, it's often reduced to the shallowness of "identity politics."
Exactly. The 2 party system in the US is essentially one big party. Both are "neoliberals" and "neoconservatives" to the extreme. They only differ on social issues in order to try to sell themselves as "opposing" parties to voters. Even then, it's often reduced to the shallowness of "identity politics."
These are blanket statements that aren't rooted in fact and don't directly address the lack of diversity among leaders in Toronto politics vs. Houston. If you can make and write the laws along with having people that look like the city in important positions (you can call this identity politics - it's about representation that reflects the actual electorate), then you'll have a thriving city, which Dallas and Houston historically have been.
Toronto - given its position of national importance is by default growing, but can't ever seem to get over the hump to become something truly transformational like London, San Francisco, Singapore, or even Sydney for that matter.
In the USA, it seems,...a city having a lot of blacks and Hispanics = diversity...
Not really, most US cities have that component, for obvious reasons, but it doesn't
mean the city is diverse.
Most big cities are diverse anyway but Toronto is on another level from Dallas or Houston
on the diversity scale...more like NYC and London.
As for economy ...Big D and Houston are powerhouses ..no doubt.
Toronto is the big dog for Canada ...it is THE hub for anything...
distrubtion ….transportation...finance/banking....technology...you name it.
Dallas and Houston also have but are competing with other big cities in their own country...
...NYC ..Los Angeles, Chicago...Atlanta....SFO ….Philly....Boston....etc
As for weather....Toronto's climate is not perfect, that's for sure,
but it offers a decent 4 season climate ...and only half the snow of nearby Buffalo,NY.
If it just had quicker/warmer springs, it would be near perfect for me.
Dallas and Houston both suffer from way too hot (and humid) summers.
Houston more humid, Dallas a bit hotter, both summers not appealing to me.
These are blanket statements that aren't rooted in fact and don't directly address the lack of diversity among leaders in Toronto politics vs. Houston. If you can make and write the laws along with having people that look like the city in important positions (you can call this identity politics - it's about representation that reflects the actual electorate), then you'll have a thriving city, which Dallas and Houston historically have been.
Toronto - given its position of national importance is by default growing, but can't ever seem to get over the hump to become something truly transformational like London, San Francisco, Singapore, or even Sydney for that matter.
Dallas is severely segregated and the predominantly Black and Brown communities south of I-30 haven’t benefited from representation politics. By and large they can’t even take advantage of all the economic growth taken place in DFW because politicians have lured corps/companies to relocate to the Northern burbs where it’s overwhelmingly White.
While Houston isn’t as isolated from economic opportunities and educational attainment in lower income Black and Brown communities (more so due to lack of zoning laws) it too is suffering from gentrification. Blacks are being priced out of their homes at a faster rate than any city in Texas at the moment. Even Mayor Turner (who comes from a historic black community and still lives there to this day) hasn’t slowed down gentrification in his own community. Matter fact he signed off on a recent project to reconstruct I-45 that will only further the displacement of those communities that sit off the highway (Black and Brown communities) only to benefit the gentrified areas full of White millennials.
So while some representative politics do have its benefits imo the most effective change is through community activism not the 2 party system. Plus there’s more to a cultural experience than just symbolic representation on a political level.
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