This is one of those arguments where everybody is wrong. Or, to be more precise, where they’re all fighting about the wrong thing. If they’d like to get on track, I suggest they take a look at what’s going on right now in Los Angeles. It is an actual phenomenon. Let’s start there first. There’s a multiple-candidate election going on right now for mayor of LA, a city that is on a death spiral (like Chicago, San Francisco, Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis and a few others).