The Fall of Oakland - Good Old DemocRatic Rule Continues to Destroy California

Mob lootings. Random shootings. Elderly people beaten in the street. The city has descended into lawlessness -  https://www.thefp.com/p/the-fall-of-oakland-leighton-woodhouse

Oakland hasn't been the same since the Raiders moved

Oakland is a thriving city. It serves as a bedroom community for SF as well as harboring several major companies and businesses in its own right. Rents, while high, aren't as high as they are across the Bay Bridge.

And anybody bitching and moaning about the fact that its administration is Democratic should know that that's how it should be when a strong majority of its voting citizens are Democrats. That's how it works...DUHHHH.

Just like Detroit.......so how come urban cities tend to vote Democratic?  Can someone help me out with that question?  

No, not anything like Detroit--for one thing, much wealthier; for another thing, one of three major cities in the same geographical/urban area.

To answer your question: the Democratic Party focuses on quality of life and helping the middle class and the poor, while the Republican Party focuses on making corporations richer and stifling initiatives such as climate change mitigation and universal health care. City dwellers include some rich people, of course, but they are mostly middle class and poor...as well as professionals who like the urban lifestyle (rather than commuting). The last group tends to be liberal, because they're just about all college-educated (and we can have some kind of diatribe about how colleges indoctrinate young people to be liberal yada yada belch grunt snort, but I merely say that it is what it is).

So since we pretty much all vote based on the need to fill our rice bowls, the rich think that voting for the RepubliQ is the best way to do that (it isn't, but that's for another discussion); everybody else thinks that voting Democrat is the best way.

Also, the larger a given group of voters, the higher the percentage of Democrats. So large groups of people, aka cities, will lean Democrat, ceteris paribus.

Kind of seems like more deadbeats to me from what I can see......

Then, you're suffering from myopia.

Calling people who receive government assistance (which is what I assume you're referring to) "deadbeats" is grossly inaccurate as well as stupidly pejorative. We ALL receive government benefits--as I've told Boiler many times (though it's yet to penetrate his thick skull), he and everyone else has received what he calls "free shit" all his life.

Our system of social democracy is set up so that the rich partially support the poor. Working people partially support retired people; young people partially support old people; well people partially support sick people. It's not "completely support" (that's socialism), nor is it "don't support at all" (conservitard heaven).

A lot of people find that unsatisfying, because the degree of support provided one group or the other is rarely what any given person wants. As an example, I want completely free liberal socialist woke left-wing commie medicine for everyone. Joe Crusty, who lives across the street, wants no government-sponsored medical care for anyone. What we have is something in between, so neither Joe nor I are happy.

It's called compromise, the cynical definition of which is the point at which both sides hate the deal.

But the people that always need the assistance almost always vote for Dems.  You can see why they are called deadbeats a bit, right?  That's why I refer to them as "your base."  

I see why mean-spirited people call them that, yes.