Democratic policy continues to wreck America's major cities. Joe Biden has a plan to take those

policies national, and when Democrats turns out, it's time for investigations of political opponents.

I'm Ben Shapiro. This is The Ben Shapiro Show.

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slash Ben. One of the odd things about modern American politics is how much attention we pay to national

policy. Because it makes some sense, I guess, because the national government is so big and because it's so intrusive

and because we spend so unbelievably much money. Because of all of that, people tend to focus in on national policy. And that's also true because of the rise of social media, which means that every issue is now a borders crushing issue. Just because something happened in California doesn't mean that the next day it's not going to be tried in New York or Florida. And just because something is happening far away doesn't mean that people aren't going and get online and talk about it. Well, because of all of this, we tend to put all of our focus on national politics. But the reality is that for most Americans, what happens on a day-to-day level is stuff that is happening in their local communities. And when we examine what has been happening to America's major cities over the course of the last 10 years, it is utterly appalling. I mean,

truly, it's one of the reasons why you are seeing population movements away from cities and

toward more suburban areas. It's one of the reasons you're seeing population movement away

from places like New York and California and toward Texas and Florida. People are voting with

their feet at this point. It's the reason why there is now an actual robust movement

for part of, I believe, Oregon to secede and move into Idaho. It's called the Greater Idaho

Movement. It's actually somewhat successful. There's some counties that are looking to move

into the neighboring state. And you could theoretically see that become more of a pattern over

time. And the reason for this is because America's major cities are governed according to ideology and they are not governed according to the impact of that ideology.

And people in these cities don't seem to realize that there are political alternatives.

They take 10, 15 years to realize that perhaps they should move in another direction.

We've had a long history of this in the United States. In the 1960s, New York was a robust, forward-looking place. They proceeded to blow out the spending,

focusing on public works projects, focusing on welfare, redoing government, undercutting the

cops. And by the 1980s, New York was basically a hellhole. And that is when Rudy Giuliani

was elected in the early 1990s and then restored New York. And now New York is falling back into the abyss. Los Angeles saw the same sort of stuff.

Los Angeles moved away from being the place where families moved to get a house in suburbia

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