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Originally Posted by bossabreezes
Seattle is beautiful, as is San Francisco. As they are both on the west coast, sadly, their beauty is being shadowed by their problems.
The US has long been a country of relatively few problems. So much so, that the new political ideologies, as some people label as ''liberal'' and ''for the people'' turn completely upside down, and put the liberties of people who aren't capable to exercise these liberties (for the good of themselves or the general population) ahead of the standard, law abiding and productive citizens.
The west coast is experiencing this type of political rot before the rest of the country, but eventually it will reach the whole country and cities will again be hostile places where few will want to venture out- in fear of stepping on hypodermic needles, human feces, or being attacked by mentally ill and/or chemically altered people.
Call it negative, call it fatalistic, but the country has chosen liberty of the oppressed to take more precedence than the majority. This doesn't work for long, and after chaos there will again be calm. But for a while it will be difficult and many people's lives will be changed negatively.
It's important to protect and help those who need it, rather than accept their negative lifestyles (regardless of choice or not) as normal and therefore strongly detract from the majority's liberties. That's not a democracy.
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The concerns of the "majority" you describe are often dismissed out of hand as élitist, nimby or worse (alt-right, selfish) but these aren't élite people in general. They're working class, middle class and even upper middle class people who actually live their daily lives in the city and on its streets, ride transit, park their own cars when they drive, frequent all sorts of regular businesses with a diverse social mix...
True élite people can actually live their lives largely unencumbered by the (alleged) decline of civility. They generally get driven everywhere, don't park their own cars, don't walk any of the streets except the poshest ones if at all, frequent only "select" establishments, have their kids in top private schools, etc.
They're largely above it all. They're largely "off the grid" just like the homeless are. Only at the extreme opposite end.
Whereas the majority lives "in the grid". As it (allegedly) rots.
These concerns and frustrations are found and growing in social strata far beyond Joe the Plumber types in the Rust Belt. But they're only rarely taken seriously - because élites are largely unconcerned.
Is it any wonder then that people like Trump get elected?
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