Posted on 07/27/2020 10:11:39 AM PDT by NRx
Just a hunch and I could be wrong but a person who writes for Human Events just might be a rare conservative in DC.
I go thru there quit often. Anyone with kids living there is committing parental malpractice. I hate cities in general. I am a rural/exoburb kind of guy anyway.
That was an excellent article. Thanks for posting it. I found this sentence to be particularly significant:
Now, we are told that, “silence equals violence.” Indifference is no longer tolerated in Urban America.
Weak article.
DC has broken USConstitution; it is a dead letter. That is worth screaming from the mountain tops.
Return to constitution, or perish USA.
Billboard slogan right there.
DC had been overwhelmingly black and crime ridden for many years, and outside a few districts no go. Now that it has increased its white population to 50% and largely gentrified many areas it seems to have turned more annoying and unlivable. Kind of weird in a counterintuitive way.
Bkmrk
The productive people will leave. The ones who don’t commit crime. They don’t riot in the streets. They don’t shoot each other up. They pay taxes. The taxes are taken and given to those who don’t work and who shoot each other up.
When the good people leave, the cities will be seen for what they are: parasites living off the hard work of some individuals. The cities will beg for more money from the state. The state will just tax those same individuals who fled the cities, and take the money and give it to the cities to be redistributed to the non-workers.
I lived off Lincoln Park on Capitol Hill in the '70s, near the emaciation statue in the article. In two years, there were three triple murders within one block of my apartment, my car was stolen, I was robbed at gunpoint, and twice someone tried to break into my apartment while I was there. Two blocks from my apartment, some gunmen crashed a party of law students, lined them up, made them strip naked, and then shot several of the males.
The author moved to D.C. in 2003, so he cannot know how it was like before then. He compares it to Brooklyn, as if Brooklyn were the negative standard for unsafe places, and perhaps the areas below Prospect Park were pretty bad once, but that was D.C until recently and much worse.
“and I don’t think he’s alone.”
That would be quite a story. I’ll wait until there’s any evidence of it.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3868813/posts
Here’s the back story to your nephew’s instagram. The “chill dawg” originator, a radio host, has had a huge change of heart.
Every Democratic controlled city is becoming a dangerous place to try to raise a family.
My daughter lives in Arlington and I think she is sick of it. She told me she has ridden the Metro one time since Covid and that was to attend the BLM March.
that was excellent. I believe he represents millions of people across this great US that are SICK of the idiots and imbeciles that have set out to destroy our great nation. They are fixing to find out they are doomed....DOOMED I tell ya. They will be shocked into utter stillness at how bad they lose in November.
I read the whole thing. Glad Turner finally grasped that the prograts are toxic to normality. Turner sounds like a typical whining putz, his Urban Vibe is gagging. He is what you don’t want moving to Tyler Texas as he will start whining about the restaurants, and ‘culture’. religion issues, gun ownership and that baby killing is not popular.
Missing from this piece is the author’s voting choices. Like most DC dwellers, chances are this is what he voted for, like it or not. And chances are, he’ll do it all over again wherever he lands, then look around in wonderment and dismay when his voting choices replicate the hellscape he left.
Excellent article, thanks for posting. I sent it to my city friends in Seattle who are moving out.
As most of you know, I finally got fed up with living in DumblASSio's NYC. I had given my all, and was slammed in the head and in the heart for it. I moved out of DumblASSio's destroyed NYC, out of Cuomo's hateful NY, and into a lovely out of state suburb where it's green, there are deer under my window, and people are really gracious in all manner of daily interactions. I had forgotten what bliss felt like; at first it was an unfamiliar feeling, which concerned me about my health but then it dawned on me---you're relaxed and happy. Yeah, it's woken up in you. Seed found a fertile ground. Don't worry, I'm not bringing libtard values with me--I'm a staunch conservative. That's why NYC didn't want my kind around and did its best to repulse me. Their loss.
Exactly what liberals want. They are locking down the large population centers for themselves because non-liberals are intentionally being driven out, and leaving willingly. Moving to more rural areas might bring some relief, but expect to lose political leverage in the process. The progressives/Marxists continue their long march while our side refuses to come together on our own long-term plan.
I worked in the Disgrace of Columbia for 5 years. Would never go back there. A cesspool.
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