MRNHS wrote:Urban Chestnut was burglarized last night, doesn't seem like there was much damage thankfully. There seems to be a very large spike in these types of crimes lately and very little return for the criminals (most places don't keep much cash on hand). However, the reputational damage to the city continues to mount. I'm certainly no expert so I don't pretend to have the solution, but the fact that it happens (nearly) exclusively in the city tells me the criminals know the cops are short staffed and are under-patrolling. In this case, it really does appear that crime is following the boundaries or we would see it happen in other locales. Would love to hear opinions on how to prevent this more as my fear is all that will come out of this is quite a few less restaurants/businesses in the city.
Crime is a symptom of poverty and misery, which are a deliberate bipartisan policy choice by our government. They love immiserating workers to compel them to work at the factory for crap wages, and then when people get desperate and disillusioned with society the crime is an excuse to expand the police force. It's win-win for everyone in power. It goes back to the Enclosure Movement in the 1500s, when nobles staffed their new factories by criminalizing unemployment and upturned the historic stability of subsistence farming.
SB in BH wrote:dbInSouthCity wrote:framer wrote:
I'm afraid this is the kind of talk that's going to result in massive nation-wide losses for the Democrats next week.
Reality talk? Are the police delicate daisies who can’t be criticized? The truth is the truth I don’t care if democrats lose 500 elections
On this issue, democrats losing elections is a good thing. They're quick to adopt activist slogans and do other BS stunts in the moment and then run away from the issue as soon as that moment's past, squandering the opportunity for real reform. I'm convinced this apparent ineptitude is in fact intentional. They deserve to be punished for it.
Their purpose is to harness and dissipate revolutionary energy. It happened in 2014 and they funneled all the activist energy into useless "vote" campaigns. Remember when Obama intervened to stop an NBA-led general strike?
So, of course they lose elections. The right-wing hates them for being associated* with advocating good policies, but since Democrats don't actually do anything they don't benefit from grateful constituents.
*I can't actually say Democrats advocate good policies because they usually don't, I mean how many Democrats besides Cori Bush actually say "Defund the Police"?
framer wrote:I'm not taking about federal elections. I'm talking about the thousands of local elections happening all over the country, where Republicans can run on a tough-on-crime platform and win the vote of the average American who's tired of the recent nation-wide crime surge.
I had thought that the abortion issue would save the day for Democrats, but that doesn't seem to be happening. We'll see next week, I guess
It's hard to say why anyone would vote for Democrats because of abortion when the Democrats are currently the majority (for the n'th time since Roe v Wade) and still haven't passed an abortion law. They even had a couple extra months due to the SCOTUS leak and they still had no strategy except "send us money and vote in November". Obama for example explicitly promised to pass a Roe v Wade bill and then just didn't do it despite a bigger majority than we have now. Roe v Wade has been on the ballot for fifty years, Democrats have won more than they've lost including a national majority in 5 of the last 6 elections and yet Lucy just says to keep trying to kick the football.
