Your first mistake is you are calling riots, a protest. I say they are terrorist insurrections. You admit as much when you clarify they did want to drive out the government from cities.
Your second mistake is erroneous stating the government was driven out of Detroit. It was not.
Your third mistake is assuming that nothing would happen if BLM and ANTIFA are successful at destroying the government of a city thus taking over and being in power. First Seattle, then Oregon, obviously Detroit must be included after all you claim there is no government in Detroit. Then of course they take over the Twin Cities, Baltimore, Atlanta.
Worst case scenario, the cities where millions of people live, are no longer safe, thousands die across the nation.
Worst case scenario, the only become Detroit, yes Detroit! Only that, where rape and murdered ruled the city for decades. Where corruption stole billions. Yes the country moves on, the people die. Worst case scenario, a repeat of the 1967 riots in Detroit, which was extremely under-reported. Hundreds did beyond the official record. Buildings destroyed..
Detroit was the 6th largest economy in the world. One city, that rich. The buildings were the best in the world. Marble and granite imported from Italy to build them. Magnificent. All destroyed.
Detroit was the murder capitol of the world!
and you act as if it is no big deal if that is repeated all across the United States?
It isn’t. The businesses that financed the boom in Detroit was the Auto Industry. They moved much of their manufacturing to Mexico. That was the final nail in the coffin for Detroit. If there is a lesson it is don’t bet the house on one thing.
Now RW types will argue it was taxes and Democrats or whatever that drove the companies out. Or taxes and unions and democrats. The truth is that it was the auto companies that sealed their own fates in Detroit.
The auto industry was blindsided by the energy shortage of the 1970’s. Before you blame Carter remember it started under Nixon and Ford.
This made imports look like a valid option. Cars that had struggled to gain a foothold were inexpensive and fuel economical. Datsun, Toyota, Honda, and Volkswagen led the charge.
Then the people buying these cars found they were reliable to boot. They didn’t fall apart after fifty thousand miles. They were not built with planned obsolescence in the design.
Cars could last more than four or five years. In the ‘80’s the automakers tried to adapt. But they had a problem. When a buyer thought of getting a small economical car they thought foreign. So American made small economical cars didn’t sell as well. Why go for a copy when you can get an original for the same price or even less?
American realized they needed to go the same way as the Japanese. Robots to do much of the work. But the old factories wouldn’t handle it. So they built new, and abandoned the old. Most new factories were still in Union States run by Democrats so that wasn’t the problem of Detroit.
American Companies discovered Minivans and SUV’s. So people still went to foreign automakers to get small cars and efficient cars.
But the SUV’s were American Copies of Land Rovers and Land Cruisers. The Escalade of fame and legend was a cheaper version of a Range Rover.
What happened to Detroit is the same thing that happened do dozens of towns in the old West. They popped up from a mine, usually Silver or Gold, and when the mine ran out, the town just died. Detroit lasted longer and grew bigger because the single source boom lasted much longer. But when the automakers left there wasn’t anything else to drive the economy.
It is what will happen to Houston when the Oil market collapses. When Oil is useful for lubricants and plastics alone. I’m sure the Right will blame the Left, or Unions, or someone.