Posted on 05/19/2023 12:17:45 PM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast
I took my weekly trip to San Diego this week. This is something I have done for more than a decade, just to get a change of scenery, look at the ocean take in a ballgame and just relax for a short spell…it’s a manageable drive from where I live, in a state without an ocean.
I have, over the years, noticed a degradation in San Diego, mostly downtown, but the obvious destruction and malaise in California, while present, was actually somewhat muted in the once fair and relatively conservative city of San Diego.
But this week I witnessed things that are beyond anything I can imagine in a society that even has a modest chance at survival. This is beyond economic decay and poverty, beyond the lack of infrastructure maintenance, beyond environmental concerns (which seems, in tremendous irony, to be the only thing the people there care about). But the environment there is one of human destruction at a level that is simply unimaginable to someone born in mid-20th century America. It is human hopelessness everywhere you cast your eyes.
My experiences included watching people - on city streets, on the walkway to the ballpark, on the corner by the gas station, on the beach - openly smoking drugs (meth or heroin, I guess) out of glass pipes, once in the sight of police that did nothing (on orders from the city, I presume). Marijuana could be whiffed on the beach (expected) as well as inside Petco Park (not expected).
But really, the rampant drug culture was the least of it. Homeless encampments stretched on downtown streets as far as you could see in every direction. Even in tourist districts like Mission, homeless encampments lined the streets and parks. Garbage and drug refuse were littered everywhere…even on the beach walk. But that wasn’t even the worst of it.
While driving to a store we saw an obviously mentally ill man ranting and raving and kicking a bag of something on the sidewalk, screaming at the top of his lungs. He grabbed the bag and chucked it at my car (I suppose he saw me looking at him), it hit with a thunk (no damage)…knowing there was no recourse, I drove on. In the parking lot of the store there was blaring announcement that lot was monitored by security…well, that’s supposed to relive you but one look at the one really scrawny female security guard pretty much put the lie to that.
Later, asI parked in the Tailgate Lot next to Petco Park, there were obviously mentally ill people camping there. One had a broad knife and was whacking away at the shrubbery near his squatting place as we walked past. Not ten steps later we saw a young man sleeping as if dead on the sidewalk, all his belongings piled around him. He actually looked decently dressed, though the many people walking past him, inches away, heading to the ballpark, didn’t rouse him at all from his death-like sleep. Across the street were more drugpipe smokers “partying” it up before they went comatose. The police and security did nothing. And even that wasn’t the worst of it.
The worst was when leaving the beach being held up by police cordons and fire trucks…the police actually shied up! That was when I saw two bodies laying covered right at an entrance to Mission Bay park.
All this in just a few day’s time in a place that had none of it, or at least none noticeable everywhere you turned, 10 years ago. All of these various people I witnessed were white people in their 20s and 30s, male and female, the people that some years ago would be getting careers and families started. It isn’t that these things were just witnessed once or twice - it was everywhere in unimaginable numbers. It was noticeably more than four years ago - a LOT more.
This is a dying society, and from everything I witnessed I’d say it needs to die - the sooner the better.
“Yep. The most important thing we should take from this [...] is that there is are a couple of typos is in the report.”
Bug off.
I’ve often wished FR had a mute feature. It would come in handy in some instances.
I went to San Diego last year after several years away. I was shocked at the homeless problem there. When I walked from my hotel to the restaurant district, I counted 10-15 homeless people per block.
Disgraceful…
But how did the Padres do, Scott?
In 1981, I went to a conference in San Diego that met in a hotel near the waterfront. The area was run down, with bars, liquor stores, junk shops and tattoo parlors predominating. Fifteen years later, when the GOP National Convention came to town, the area had been transformed into the fancy, upscale Gas Lamp District. I haven’t been there since 2008, but I imagine it’s probably not so upscale and fancy anymore.
San Diego decay - bttt
Even San Francisco was a pretty good place as late as the 80’s.
LIBERALS TRULY DO DESTROY EVERYTHING.
Ha Ha…I went to Monday’s game where Wacha took a no hitter into the 8th…their only good day against the Royals.
Sadly, it makes sense, if you were a bum, would you rather be in San Diego or Philadelphia? Sunny and 72 all year.
I’m a mid-tribber who thinks the seven-year tribulation is already underway, and that such catastrophes are about to increase exponentially.
Whether or not the A’s moving to Vegas triggers the Great Tribulation will become evident in due course.
I live in West Texas. We have them here under the bridges. Hope the summer heat sorts them out.
Agreed; it is allowed, as it breaks the spirit of a healthy community. I live in CA, in a city with some of the most beautiful and peaceful parks in the U.S. They’re overrun with vagrants and their refuse (garbage, needles, feces, tents, tarps, etc.) and vicious dogs. Nearly all those ‘camping’ are severely ill, both mentally and physically, and drug use is rampant. These people need institutional help, and it is cruel to leave them as they are to defend for themselves in a very harsh world. Doesn’t seem very humane or civilized. Traditional family life would cure most of this, but it would take generations to turn the tide.
Thank you for taking the time to write this report. I am not a pessimist per se, however I am a realist. It will take an act of divine intervention to return this country to law and order. The destroyers’ agenda is to erase man’s innate decency and virtue. The evil plan has been in place for decades; to date the implantation of that plan has been successful. You witnessed this on the streets of San Diego.
The adversary owns the media, the court system, the military, the universities, the public school system, the libraries, the federal government and the “mainstream” churches.
I have the same good situation in my small town in CT.
Cold winters and limited infrastructure drives away anyone who is not self-reliant.
As another poster said—if I were a bum I would move to CA.
I also lived in SD Point Loma a long time ago, 1982, and have wanted to go back for a visit. But as our country fills up with invaders the middle class are being pushed down and the lower class into the streets. The fed has printed up all the money and taken over even the local governments with COVID FUN BUCKS.
The worst part is that Americans are helping these invaders right down to bus drivers and hotel staffers. If we all refused to provide services to people that are invading out country I would be hopeful but I see no sign of an end to the white busses and plane loads of invaders being transported from the border to the interior of the US.
True. Mentally ill students also need to be removed from public schools.
True. Mentally ill students also need to be removed from public schools.
My father in law just returned from Barcelona - the addicts were living in tent cities under overpasses as well.
Yes and most of those “homeless veterans” are druggies as well.
Hate to say this but I’ve encountered many of these migrants in NJ and NY and they are preferable to the native druggie “homeless” and the welfare dependent project and section 8 dwellers, and I say this a a strict restrictionist on LEGAL immigration as well.
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