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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
Agree with everything except this. The United States is a pretty strong counterpoint...they have somewhat more effectively swept the problem under the rug. But Americans seem to simply accept that there are places you don't go at night and places you don't go ever.
We are and will continue to transition more and more to that line of thinking, and perhaps employ more security guards to sweep the problem away from our eyes.
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That may have been the case 6 or 8 years ago. No longer. Public lawlessness has been a major issue in recent elections in San Francisco, LA, New York, etc. In most cases, progressive candidates are losing to law and order types.
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Progressive Democrats were knocked on the defensive in their own party over crime and homelessness on Wednesday after voters in two high-profile California races delivered a stark warning about the potency of law and order as a political message in 2022.
The landslide recall of a progressive prosecutor in San Francisco, Chesa Boudin, and the strength of a Republican-turned-Democratic mayoral candidate in deep-blue Los Angeles, Rick Caruso, who ran relentlessly as a crime-fighter eager to clean up the streets, showed the extent to which voter anxieties about public safety have taken hold — even in some of the most progressive corners of the nation.
The results offered fresh evidence of the depths of voter frustration in major American cities about quality-of-life issues. They were also the latest signs of a restless Democratic electorate that was promised a return to normalcy under President Biden and yet remains unsatisfied with the nation’s state of affairs.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/08/u...ats-crime.html
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