“There are actually [residents] advocating driving the homeless out of Venice — shipping them off somewhere, which is such a proto-fascist move,” says television writer Evan Dunsky, a 27-year resident of the area. “And then what? Do we have to build a wall around Venice?”
Someone should ask this guy how many of these people he has invited into his home...if only for a hot meal and/or a shower.
He shouldn't need to invite them. Being form California, I'm sure he must support 'open borders'. In my view, that also includes 'open doors'. He should just leave his doors open to them.
Amen! How many people has Nancy P invited into her house to stay for a while, have a hot meal and a hot shower????
Like my college roommate, who is a die hard lib tard. When people were coming into USA a few years ago, illegally, and she was all FOR it. She donated to a group who left bottles of water in the desert for the illegals coming to Calif. I asked her why she didn’t sponsor one of these young immigrants? She had a 4 or 5 bedroom house at the time, in suburb of San Diego. I said, “you have room to sponsor at least ONE young girl” She said, “No, they might steal from me”
TYPICAL LIBERAL
When life gets painful enough for Evan, he will either agree that tough measures need to be taken, or he will move out. Reality has a way of staying right in your face.
There is a Netflix show called Flaked that has as part of its storyline the gentrification of Venice Beach. I haven’t been there in years, and last time I was it was like it is depicted in movies like White Men Can’t Jump, a funky town filled with druggies, hippies and weirdos, people roller blading, lifting on the beach, maybe not dressed. The real estate was pretty run down, it was not a place where I would have considered living.
But it is by the beach, and housing in LA is scarce, so it makes sense that money has moved in and bought up housing and established restaurants and the whole infrastructure of hipster life. Those hipsters now have to deal with the contradictions in their world view by living alongside an army of homeless druggies. Good luck, Venice!
Flaked is OK, not great but mildly entertaining if you want to give it a try. There are 2 seasons of it; not sure if there will be a 3rd.