not to mention rampant crime, the rise of the mob, violence, loss of morality and civility, gangs in the streets.
It's best said here:
Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible.
-CA Justice Janice Rogers Brown
Yup, and the drug warriors don't get it.
I'm all for community standards. The community should be able to decide what they will accept and what they will not. The city should be the center of politics and the state should be the highest level for laws and regulations.