Wealthy Marin County residents finally begin to experience the crime they voted for

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.” – H.L. Mencken

In the third decade of the 21st century, Mencken’s quotation needs to be upgraded. It’s not just that the common people are getting what they wanted good and hard, it’s that the virtue-signaling affluent leftists are finally getting it too. Certainly, that’s the conclusion to be had from a story about rising shoplifting in Marin County, once a very safe community and also one of America’s most fanatically Democrat-voting counties.

To appreciate the news story I’m about to share with you, you need to know two things about Marin County. First, in 2014, Marin County voters enthusiastically supported Proposition 47, with 79.14% of the voters saying “yes,” as opposed to 20.86% saying “no.” But what is Prop. 47, you ask? Excellent question and the answer matters a great deal.

Even before 2015, when Michael Brown attacked a police officer and tried to seize the officer’s gun, getting himself killed in the process, an event that marked the beginning of the mainstream war on the police, California was already paving the way for an increase in crime and a diminishment of law enforcement. Prop. 47 was that salvo, for it reduced shoplifting from a felony to a misdemeanor if the stolen goods are valued at less than $951 dollars. In other words, after Prop. 47 passed, you’d get a ticket for stealing up to $950 in merchandise.

Image: Shoplifters. YouTube screen grab.

And again, Marin County voters were all-in for this virtue-signaling initiative. Nor was this an anomaly. Marin County, which is the eighth wealthiest county in America, is fanatically Democrat. In 2020, Joe Biden walked away with 82.53% of the votes.

Given Marin County’s devotion to Democrat policies, I have to admit that the schadenfreude was strong in me when I read that it’s suffering terribly from shoplifting (as are all retailers in the hard-left San Francisco Bay Area):

Across the Bay Area, retailers say they are struggling with rampant theft as laws, regulations and other obstacles complicate enforcement, leaving business owners frustrated.

The Left Wing mind has become so diseased and/or so degraded that it can’t help itself.

They say that an addict can’t truly receive help until they hit rock bottom and admit that they have a problem.

The leftist can hit rock bottom and start digging to China and they won’t admit it. They voted for this? They will never admit that or even put a simple chain of cause and effect together.

Instead, they activate the programming to transfer thought to the emotional side of the brain. Oh no, it isn’t the policies that we voted for that is causing this crime and misery!! It’s climate change and anger from overturning Roe thst is causing this and we all know that is the Republicans fault!!!

That is how it works. That is how a lefty living in a place under total and complete lefty control somehow blames the opposition for its problems.

Excuse me? Are we supposed to care?

This is a definite case of “they deserve what they vote for”.

On a side note, can you imagine in today’s age and criminal climate, sitting in your home without any firearm in the house? What a scary thought to just be left at the whims of the criminal’s decision as to which house to “invade” today. If an LEO responds to your call it will like be thirty minutes to hours later. What do you do in the meantime? Ask the thugs to please just wait until the “good guy with a gun” arrives? The left wishes for you to be unarmed in order to promote equity and inclusion. That includes the thugs taking and doing what they wish.

No thank you! I’ll pass.

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