The city of Chicago has a food problem, grocery chains don't want to open new stores there,

and the stores that are there are about to close. The problem has been brewing for a while,

but it's gotten much worse in recent years. For instance, the number of Chicago residents

living more than a mile away from a grocery store has jumped by 63 percent since 2013.

The liberals are blaming the growing food desert on the usual suspects, racism,

discrimination, inequality. In fact, the problem is crime, shoplifting and vandalism.

As one Walmart representative told the New York Post, quote, collectively, our Chicago stores have

not been profitable since we opened the first one nearly 17 years ago.

So what is Chicago going to do about it? Are Chicago officials going to arrest the criminals?

No, of course not. They're going to open government-owned grocery stores instead.

That is the proposal by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson to address the food desert crisis.

Now you might be thinking that it's crazy to turn America's second city into a midwestern,

Soviet state when you could just as easily keep shop-right and whole foods and all the rest of them

by simply arresting the criminals. But that reaction supposes that Chicago officials

don't want to turn the city into a Soviet state. That reaction supposes that the liberal ruling class

considers the criminals a problem. When in fact, they are a part of the liberals' solution.

A term that has gained traction recently for this situation is anarcho tyranny,

a paradoxical state in which the government meticulously, oppressively,

regulates citizens' lives while at the same time refusing to enforce basic aspects of the law.

The government sends a right-wing private citizen to prison for 10 years for tweeting some

run-of-the-mill memes in the case of Douglas Mackey. And at the same time, let's BLM and Antifa off

the hook for looting, killing, and burning the country down for eight months. Then the state uses

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