Does anyone disagree that the homeless roaming the streets is an example of liberal values in practice?
It was a liberal idea to make it much more difficult to commit someone for psychiatric care. Many homeless have mental problems.
It was a liberal idea to do away with laws such as vagrancy laws that used to be a way of dealing with loitering and people living on the streets.
The exsitence of so many homeless is due to liberal values being applied to the problems of people who can’t live in society properly.
A good conservative value would be to get these people off the streets and then get to the roots of their problems. If they can be helped to living on their own, fine. If not, maybe they are better off getting the mental help they need. But the liberals prefer to let this problem fester, by saying people have a constitutional right to sleep on the streets. They protest efforts to get homeless off the streets by charging we want to put them in jail. But the liberals have no solutions to the problems of the homeless. They just want them to stay downtown or in the slums, while the liberals enjoy their nice homes on the Upper West Side, or Berkeley, or La Jolla, or Bel Air, or all the other nice neighborhoods of our cities. They would protest if the homeless were in their neighborhood, but if they are not in their neighborhood, the liberals don’t care. How compassionate are liberals if they want to let someone sleep on the street?
My parents live in Boca Raton, Florida, a solidly liberal Democratic city in Palm Beach County. It has long been custom for the local police to pick up any wandering homeless (particularly on Route One) and drive them over the county line into Deerfield Beach.
Local Denver guy (5 years on the street himself) runs a place that does try to get the worst of the homeless off the street. 45% approx. success rate. He takes no fed/state money. “A hand up, not a hand out!” “Real change, not spare change”