(Dysfunction Junction)

     It’s been nearly 65 years since my family and I came to Broward County in a 1938 Packard touring car.
     With a year-round population of less than 80,000 , Broward was just as dysfunctional in 1947 as it is today with:
     - The inhumane segregation of between whites and blacks in virtually every aspect of life.
     - The rigid “restriction” of Jews as guests in Fort Lauderdale hotels.
     - A blatant level of political corruption that created a lucrative partnership between law enforcement (the Sheriff’s office) and organized crime (Myer Lansky).
     - A highly seasonal economy based on bean farms and a four-month tourist season.
    - A public school board dominated by Redneck farmers and Klansmen.
    That was then….
    And today?
    With 1.8 million residents, Broward – in its own way -- remains as dysfunctional as it was in boyhood.
     Only now, like a dysfunctional Gaul, the county has morphed into three bizarre  demographic parts:
     - An Elitist East (between Atlantic and I-95)
     - A Third World Middle (between I-95 and the Florida Turnpike)
     - The Overbuilt West, where an endangered Middle Class struggles to survive.
     Which is how and why Broward County – as a cohesive community – can’t “work,” having become a dysfunctional socio-economic nightmare of racial and ethnic diversity politically served by grotesque confederacy of 31 disparate cities and 89 special tax districts.
     More to the point, we predicted Broward’s current inability to function as a cohesive community more than 25 years ago in an in-depth article that appeared in the News and Sun-Sentinel’s long-deceased local Sunday (Sunshine) magazine! 
     Anyhow…
     Now you have the “back story” to my previous post (below) titled “Broward’s Other Brothers.” JKdeG