Detroit's Arrogance Harms Itself

Detroit deserves this. Despite what Jesse Jackson says, despite what the radicals within both the city and elsewhere think, Detroit deserves this. Detroit merits, such as it is, an emergency manger.

Detroit's leaders are pathetically territorial. That means that Detroit voters are pathetically territorial. Leave us alone, we'll fix it. Leave us alone, it'll be alright. In short, leave us alone.

But Detroit isn't alone. It is part of an entire state, an entire state which can be brought down if it does not think of the entire state. When Detroit has wanted help, it has appealed to the court of Michigan. It has said, we are a part of you, indeed, we are you. Don't touch us, should you violate who you are.

Yet, should that be true, should we and Detroit be the same, doesn't it work both ways? Should not Detroit think of the entire state?

Of course it should. Yet should it not, of whom does that speak ill: the state, or the city?