I do understand the point.
However, it is necessary that all peoples, of jurisdictions, states, countries large and small, recognize that they don't get the government they want, they get the government they deserve.
Californians, New Yorkers, and Massholes move out of their sh*thole collectivist states because of certain policies, and then move and go and infect the remaining free areas of the country.
They don't see that THEY were what they wanted to leave. Making them aware of this is not task of being gentle.
Just as we should look with disdain upon Venezuelans' choice (even if by passive acceptance) of leadership, so to should we look upon the Portland voters, for example, with disdain. Should we look on each individual with disdain? Of course not. But as a group that together came up with their monster -> disdain.
It is not fair, but is a function of this mortal coil, that if you don't prevent the morons around you from acting moronically, you will find yourself all covered in their moronocy. Often that is violence. Fair? No. Did you do anything to deserve it? Well ... you didn't change it and you chose to stay and watch it develop, or you shielded your eyes. That 35% that may not have voted for what they got, did they FIGHT it? Or did they just sit there all innocent and passive while mold grew around them?
So it's true we should extend our invite to those with open eyes to join the free and not-moronic ... but so long as they remain ... the disdain is there not to punish them but to wake them the hell up.
We don't want their votes if it's going to drag us to the left. The ones that fight ... we'll take 'em!
It's not so much about blame or punishment as it is about opening one's eyes, waking up - seeing things as they really are.
Berating them, so long as that beration(?) is an effort to pry open their eyes rather than to simply be abusive ... well if that hurts them ... well I promise it hurts less than what awaits at the end of the passive path they are on.
I hear you but have very very very little patience for them. If their eyes aren't wide open, I say 'stay where you are and let the suffering wake you up.' That is, after all, the purpose of suffering. Pointing out WHY they suffer, for example, by saying 'you let this happen, in THAT sense you deserve it' ... that is merely pouring the cold water of enlightenment on their sleep heads.
But I get your point. And that may have been a little rant-ish of me and not necessarily addressed your specific points. If it didn't, then let this serve as acknowledgment that it may not have, and now, like the New York Times, I have placed a weaselly correction on page 26 :-)
DeBlasio, Lightfoot, and the bozos in Seattle and Portland were all elected by the citizens of their cities.
These people didn't run on a platform of making their cities safe, repairing infrastructure or keeping parks and neighborhoods clean. They ran on social justice warrioring.
The majority of citizens are getting EXACTLY what they voted for.
Trump's said on multiple instances, "Just ask us in, and we'll have it cleaned up in 24 hours." They won't do it.
It makes you think of women who keep going back to men who beat them up, then call the cops, then refuse to press charges, refuse to leave the man, and wonder why they keep getting beaten up. At some point, you can't protect people from their own bad choices. Ask John Belushi. Or Amy Winehouse. Or Jim Morrison. Or Chris Farley.