The Chicago Way w/John Kass: Is anyone hearing Chicago’s screams?
The Chicago Way
WGN Plus
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2022
⏱️ 50 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Do you hear that woman screaming? |
| 0:16.5 | She's screaming on a beautiful Sunday afternoon in the leafy lake view neighborhood of Chicago |
| 0:23.9 | near restaurants and culture, civility. |
| 0:29.6 | She was attacked by thugs and robbed in front of her home. |
| 0:35.2 | So is this the scream of Mayor Lightfoot Summer of Joy, or is it something else? |
| 0:41.2 | Similar screams can be heard in many urban areas now, across the country. |
| 0:46.8 | Years ago I tried to warn you about that sense of lawlessness that was growing, and it's |
| 0:52.1 | still growing from New York to Philadelphia to Chicago. |
| 0:57.4 | You've heard about Memphis, right? |
| 1:00.4 | Memphis. |
| 1:01.4 | To Seattle all the way out there to Arizona, throughout the south, throughout the east, |
| 1:07.1 | throughout the west, throughout the Midwest. |
| 1:11.0 | It's all part of what today's guest and friend Matt Rosenberg of wirepoints.org has called |
| 1:17.1 | The Great Unraveling. |
| 1:20.6 | You can feel the fabric of civil society unraveling, can't you? |
| 1:25.6 | This quit, retire, because politicians don't have their backs. |
| 1:30.4 | The political left breaks down law enforcement, the rule of law, and the people arm themselves, |
| 1:38.4 | and soon they begin shooting. |
| 1:41.1 | And if you truly honest with yourself, you'll realize that you felt this happening for years, |
| 1:46.0 | this unraveling, the Great Unraveling. |
| 1:49.6 | And if you're extremely and painfully honest with yourself, you know that if you dare |
| 1:54.7 | mention it, if you live in an urban area and dare mention it, if you live in a blue area |
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