Americans Beware: See How Socialism and Inept Politicians Are Destroying Three Cities In America Today

As readers of this blog know, we have very little respect, patience, or faith in the vast majority politicians, regardless of what party they are in and what level of government they are serving. They all waste taxpayer money, they are ineffective in resolving any issues, they are greedy and selfish and they divide the country with their partisan, angry, and often violent rhetoric.

But it seems lately that the Democrats have gotten even worse in all aspects of their governing. Many have left the historical Democrat standards and are now socialists bordering on communists by controlling every aspect of our lives:

• Many want to take control of every aspect of our health care via a socialized medical disaster known as Medicare For All.
• They want to significantly raise taxes of everyone….even though they claim they only want to tax the rich more.
• They want to suppress freedom as Obama tried to do with the shredding of the First and Fourth Amendment and the politically correct speech that Democrats love to cater to.
• They want to take control of our travel and energy options via the ridiculously stupid New Green Deal.
• They want even more control of our kids’ education by harassing and shutting down educational alternatives like charter schools, which generally provide a much better education than government controlled public schools, the total failure of Common Core notwithstanding.

The list goes on and on but you get the idea: they think that they are better suited to run our lives, make decisions for us, and control every aspect of our lives by using our own money, confiscated at almost slave like taxation levels, to do so.

But maybe we are wrong, maybe these newly minted socialists, communists are onto something. Maybe they are smarter than us and are better suited to control our fates then we are. I doubt it but let’s consider three cities across the country, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Seattle, who are really already being run by Democrats/socialists/communists and see if they are actually doing a better job than the freedom that was promised in the Constitution and Bill of rights.

Before doing this, though, let’s refer back to a post we already did about San Francisco:

https://loathemygovernment.blogspot.com/2018/07/july-2018-part-3-political-class.html

If you remember that post, or go read it for the first time, you will see that the Socialism utopia that Democrats promise is not quite working out in San Francisco. Poverty, drug addiction, homelessness, and feces in the streets is what the Democrats/socialists have brought to that city when we last discussed it.

But let’s update that discussion and throw Seattle and Los Angeles into the mix, as laid out by the Freedom Outpost website, as reported by Michael Snyder on April 21, 2019:

• As we go through this discussion, keep in mind that the U.S. economy has been recession free since 2009 and that under Trump, economic conditions have been great with rising wages and very, very low unemployment and yet the following situations exist in three socialist run U.S. cities: imagine what is going to happen in these cities when the economy hits its next eventual recession.
• According to the article: “But because of their ultra-liberal policies, some of the major cities on the west coast have become magnets for drug addicts, serial criminals, sex offenders, illegal immigrants and people that have simply heard about all of the “free benefits” that are being offered. As a result, the streets of those cities have become a showcase for the social decay that is sweeping across our nation.”
• Officially, San Francisco has 28,000 homeless people living on its streets but it is generally assumed that this number is way too low relative to reality.
• Given that the city government hands out about 5.8 million free syringes every year to people in the city means that if there were 28,000 homeless and they were all drug addicts, each drug addict would be getting about 200 free syringes every year, meaning that there are more homeless than 28,000, many non-homeless have their drug addiction subsidized by taxpayers or both.
• In San Francisco, over the past 8 years there have been over 118,000 official reports of human feces piles on city streets as a result of a lot of homeless people and the reality that the politicians in power decided that it should not be a crime of any sort to relieve oneself in public.
• This means that this 118,000 leads to about 400 reports everyday for 8 years of a pile of human feces being reported in the city, 400 a day!
• And the trend is not good since there were 28,084 cases reported just in 2018, about 25% of the 118,000 reported over the past 8 years with 2019 on a similarly high pace.
• Drug addicts and other criminals have given the city a property crime rate that is four times the rate of the property crime in New York City or about 6,000 property crimes a year.
• The mayor is trying to get the homeless off of the streets but liberal, rich voters, as we have previously reported, want nothing to do with the mayor’s effort in their neighborhood: “A wealthy liberal neighborhood in San Francisco whose residents cast the most votes for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election is fighting against a proposal to build a new homeless shelter near their gated mansions. Mayor London Breed has sponsored legislation to fast track a homeless shelter that would house 200 people. However, wealthy liberals living in the affected area have set up a GoFundMe to stop the project which has already hit $80,000 of its $100,000 target.”
• Los Angeles is not doing much better with about twice as many homeless people as San Francisco.
• The homeless population in the city is up 75% in just the past six years.
• According to the article: “When I was running for Congress, one of the people that came to help the campaign had spent a lot of time in some of the worst parts of Los Angeles. He told me about the public drug use, the constant crime and the human degradation that is seemingly everywhere.”
• Seattle is not doing much better, as vividly illustrated by the video, “Seattle Is Dying”.
• The video points out that the crime rate in Seattle is now two and a half times greater than the crime rate in LA and four times higher than the crime rate in NYC.
• Taxpaying citizens in Seattle have finally hit the breaking point with 53% now supporting a “zero tolerance Policy” on homeless encampments, 62% believe that conditions in their city are getting worse, and that current politicians are wasting money, are not accountable and have the wrong approaches to resolving the homelessness and crime problems in their city.

Heavy taxation by Democrats/socialist in these cities with dismal, dangerous, and unhealthy results. Problems and issues never getting resolved, they just get worse. These problems are not Trump’s fault, they are not Republicans’ fault, Trump and Republicans have not been involved in governing these cities for decades or never. These horrid conditions exist because of Democratic and socialistic policies. And to think that Washington Democrats want to bring this same type of governing to the rest of the country.

If you think that this is a good thing, consider the best possible description from the article of what you will have to look forward to if they succeed:  “The entire video is about an hour long, but it is pretty easy to see where Seattle continues to go wrong. A heavy tax burden, regulations that push out businesses, and a power-hungry group of totalitarian sociopaths have been slowly eroding the city. The decay of Western civilization can be seen up and down the entirety of the West coast. Some say it’s by design, others disagree. But the commonality is that all of the cities are being pushed into poverty by illusions and lies of socialists. Calling Seattle anything other than a leftist’s paradise would be inaccurate. The city has all of the laws the socialists want, yet it’s killing itself because of it.”

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