Boston should be congratulated for having a mayor who turned down the Olympics scam. I would like to think that, eventually, any place governed by elected officials who are answerable to The People will turn down the shake downs and PR scams that are the Olympics, it might make them more able to turn down similar plans to enrich the owners of professional sports teams if they practiced saying "no" to such fat cats.
The Olympics are run by a putrid, corrupt establishment with a sense of entitlement matched only by their hypocrisy of their cloying, dishonest false front. I heard one news item about them a few years ago that said one of their demands was to have a highway lane reserved for the exclusive use of Olympics officials. Their sense of entitlement is boundless. It's no huge surprise to find out that Bejing was chosen, a city in a country without democracy, now without even a veneer of socialism as it is one of the world centers of organized corruption of every kind as the common people are rolled over at will by the ruling oligarchs of the kind that communism seems to inevitably leads to. In real life communism, inherently anti-democratic and inevitably autocratic would have been rationally expected to work out that way. Democracy is hard to achieve, hard to maintain and always at risk in the face of indifference or difficulty, when a government starts out by giving into that risk it is short circuited. That such a place is to be the only city that has hosted both the winter and summer Olympics says a lot about the "movement" and, I hope, a sign that democracies have outgrown that kind of shake down effort.
Boston shouldn't have ever thought of looking into the Olympics until it has fixed its public schools, housed its homeless and provided a decent standard of life to the poorest residents. No city should, no country should. You can say the same thing for the "Peoples" Republic.
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