First, just in case you wondered about the assertion in the title, dig these two tidbits from SanFran.
Wanna know why? This is why.
As long as we can just print money and hand it out, there is no real cost to property crimes. That's why we make half-hearted attempts to stop a thief. That's why shoplifters don't do time. That's why shoplifting isn't even reported.
There's no significant, direct cost to any of it.
When you see the bewilderment in the people at the San Francisco Walgreens in that video, you're watching their brains struggle with the knowledge that what's happening is the breakdown of society fighting with the numbing culture of compassion, compassion that's been bought with colored pieces of paper.
The 17 Walgreens that have closed in Frisco, the 323,000 square foot cavity in Chicago's Magnificent Mile where Macy's used to be and the burned out stores in Minneapolis are real. The colored pieces of paper aren't.
We'll start defending civilization again eventually.
It is very simple, until there is Law and Order again, there will be no peace. Which is 180 degrees away from the Democrats policy.
ReplyDeleteJoe Soucheray, the host of Garage Logic, witnessed basically the same thing in a Walgreens or CVS in a nicer area of St Paul. 3 young women, pulled up in 2 cars, went in, grabbed a bunch of stuff and ran out. Joe followed, and got the license plate number. He took it to the store manager, who reluctantly took the numbers, resigning to the fact that nothing was going to happen. Joe didn't dare confront them, because 1 he's in his 70s, and three 20 something girls would probably beat him pretty badly. And 2 he would have been labeled racist.
Minneapolis is run by gangs, Portland is run by thugs, Seattle is the same.
It is the destruction of moral and ethical values, the closer you get to the nations tallest buildings.
And those cities with the tallest buildings have elected officials of predominately 1 political party, and has been that way for 50+ years.
Somehow, the dots need to get connected to complete the picture.
==Why We're Not Defending Civilization==
ReplyDelete"We", that is, our society as a whole, are not defending civilization because the only way to restore our civilization is to repent of our sin and humbly and honestly call on the name of Christ. And that is just a bridge too far for most moderns. It's explained by your "Pushing the Borders of the Empire of Perversity" thesis.
As Douglas Wilson (Blog & Mablog) explained recently, leftists hate both the fruit of righteousness and the tree from which it comes, while "normals" very much want the fruit but hate the tree and refuse to tend it (and would rather chainsaw it).
In that graph, the source marked a line at 2014 as "proposition 14 passed", as if they expected it to correlate with shoplifting arrests. Which proposition 14 was that? Is that something San Francisco specific, or statewide?
ReplyDeleteTim - That’s a great question. Turns out the last two Prop 14’s have been on the ballots in 2010 and 2020 (they eliminated party only voting in primaries and established a funding source for stem cell research, respectively). In 2014 California did pass Prop 47.
ReplyDeleteProp 47 was referred to by its supporters as the “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act”. It recategorized some nonviolent offenses as misdemeanors, rather than felonies, as they had previously been categorized. This included shoplifting if less than $950. It is obvious that that might affect the number of people willing to shoplift, and the effort law enforcement might put into arrest and prosecution. I can only guess that is the Proposition they meant. [Aside: It also included changing the penalties for drug use, and I always thought that was why it passed so easily.]