Why Progressives Ruin Cities 

My wife is a progressive ~ I did that and she divorced me ~ AND they were all criminals who despitefuly used me and hated me anyway ~ WHAT A CROCK OF SHIT THEY WERE ! Drunks ,addicts and loopy irresponsable nutjobs ! They wouldn't work or get out of bed till NOON ! I tell you ~ It's time for Stalinist purges ~

@@markusbroyles1884 don't marry liberal again...I know most women tends liberal...but marry conservative next time

I couldn't agree more. Help these poor people get a new start. A major benefit would be in house baby sitting. When the couple are out of the house working , the heroin addict living in your guest room can babysit your children this saving more money. This is a win win for all involved.

@@bruceconstuble7776 lol!!! I hope that's sarcasm i smell! Lol!

@@markusbroyles1884 Kind of a weird way to classify your children

Their idiots

@Big Dick Black Key word "greater" San Francisco. If it's so great in the city itself, then why was this video made?

My biggest takeaway from this video was how much of a retard the author is... he continuously illustrated his lack of understanding and the fact that he hasn't truly shaken his youthful ideologies... still carrying a bag of "cope" along with him. If your "ideas" are laden with consequences... then they weren't "great" to begin with

@Big Dick Black Grow up son, life does not revolve around your penis.

Thats what I heard as well. "I still support some of these policies" ok bozo you still havent learned your lesson you just dont like having homeless shit on your doorstep.

The problem is he still believes in the policies that led to it.

@@samuelhowie4543 which means he will continue to vote for it, and the downward spiral will continue because these mistakes cost people like him almost nothing to repeat.

It's not just that they went too far, many progressive policies are patently absurd if not outright dangerous. For instance, the idea that not prosecuting property crimes would lead to anything other than rampant levels of property crime, is something only the most out of touch with reality people would ever imagine trying. And they did it anyway, as if they really thought it was a good idea. These people live in a fantasy world, which wouldn't be a problem if they didn't have so much unchecked power in society.

@@toobnoobify You know that, and we know that. Do the people voting for the policies know that?

@@alexipestov7002 Clearly not, but I think your question was rhetorical anyhow. California is doing us a favor, by conducting a modern experiment with their "ballot propositions" about whether direct democracy is a viable legislative mechanism. So far, it seems the Founding Fathers were right all along.

People just don't vote! They NEED to start doing common sense voting!

Yep, when you enable, you disable.

@@robertlowe5697 The problem is, who do you vote for? One candidate is just as bad as another, just in different ways.

They're elected by people just like them who live in San Fran Sicko. 😲

I don't know, but I certainly vote against every Republicon on the ballot! But, you have it wrong: Republicons NEVER accept responsibility, personal or otherwise, for their actions. EVER.

What does one do when they realize their role in destroying a city? clean it up? No, wright a book and make money from it.

Elf

His statement is a conundrum, it doesn’t make sense. I still support the work of leftist radicalism but it just went too far… what??? Lol

Not really it’s one thing to want to decriminalize drugs and force rehab on peopke and another to just let people shoot it up and not be forced into rehab

@@iironhide6209 At this point the drugs are a societal problem that not only influence the junkies but also influence the people around them, especially setting a bad example to kids. More serious action should be undertaken to remove the junkies from the streets and clean everywhere of needles etc. Otherwise in a generation or two the problem will get worse and it might be time to nuke instead.

Book by who? Why do so many white people still choose to get their information from rich, radical white power activists like this extremist

@@owenmersk4626 ur a bot owen

@@owenmersk4626 Instead of the lame Communist Alinsky tactic of deflecting onto the messenger, why were you unable to cite exactly what he said was inaccurate? Nice act of racism though.

ok boomer

@@owenmersk4626 did you even watch the video? SMFH 🤦

@@malex2200 sometimes you have to pay the piper.

I've talked to many older people that say they were raging leftists in their 20s, now they're not. Getting a full time job and seeing how much they take from your paycheck, how much property taxes are, how many regulations are put on businesses, it changes your worldview.

He said he still supports what he did.

Usually people figure it out in their 20s, this guy didn't figure it out until his 40s or 50s

@@brett1510 That's true, but at least he did. Brainwashing can take years to overcome. With the catastrophic Biden Regime, many Biden voters are having great buyer's remorse and are now figuring out the truth.

Then realized it doesn't matter who is in charge and your country is rotting?

You grow up when you are not either liberal OR conservative but intelligent instead.

@@hew195050 Intelligence is innate. Knowledge is learned. Conservatism is upholding the Constitution and the vision of the framers. It's actually is the default position - centrist, not "far right" as it is known today. Conservatism is pragmatism at its finest. This knowledge was developed as the truth was revealed to me...and as Jesus began to bless my life of course!

What is a liberal?

@@humanbeing5300 a fool.

Sort of like it is legal to kill and unborn baby...and making the whole idea palatable by calling the child a fetus.

Imagine, others learn that they also have the'right' to do what they want in the city... They will clean it up very quickly.

Amen

This is what happens when you don't teach property rights to children.

They are also demanding that Big Government take care of others' lack of personal responsibility with responsible tax payers' money.

Sounds about right

That is because the woke don't actually believe in the bullshit they espouse. It is just virtue signaling, especially in front of others for admiration of fluff, but no substance.

@@alanguages that’s what cops in Cali said about these upper middle class liberals who protest against the police.

@@Deknis Once the Libs experience the crime, they will immediately attempt to call the police. Not the bullshit of talk to people about their feelings and understand their plight without cops. The woke are infuriating, as we also know they like to destroy neighborhoods, that need the police the most.

No joke. Have a bunch of these criminals move into where these progressives live, sell/shoot up dope, break into their homes, steal their stuff & see how quickly they change their tune. They'll be calling for help from the same "evil racist" police they want to defund.

Do you live there? Or is this emotion just from watching so much radical white power movement propaganda like this channel

@@owenmersk4626 I lived there. Got out. Brian is correct.

@@owenmersk4626 If you want to see white power propaganda go to pragerU. This is a libertarian chanel, that thinks alle people are equal by the law, and Stossel made the argument that it was ridiculous how much people, especially black people, are incarcerated in the US. This ain't white power propaganda, it isn't about black or white at all. It is not racist.

I think Stossel is referring to the best of intentions going horribly wrong.

@@owenmersk4626 Does it matter whether or not he lives there? Does it alter the facts? Or is your comment just an emotion from watching all the liberal mainstream media?

Great idea!

WOW! good point...

Then let all conservative activists live with the people they destroy. Goes both ways.

@@hew195050nope it doesn’t this is all liberals’ fault buddy you can wallow in these shitholes your friends created.. insane how conservatism worked great until left politicans came into play lmao

There’s 1000x more progressive than conservative activists ding-a-ling.

That's hilarious!

Mark Twain is the GOAT of quotes along with Voltaire

Some years ago when it was time for us to return to the West Coast from New York, I had the choice of San Francisco or Los Angeles. California's a stinking ghetto cesspool now, but at least we're in LA and not San Fransicko

LOL good one.

If you’re not a liberal when you are young you have no heart, if you’re not a conservative when you are old you have no brain. -Me

In the end dont build a wall with mexico, dig a trench 20 meters deep. All arested people go to dig your sentence.

@@valentinosstamkos4022 like the movie holes but it’s just one big hole.

@valentinos stamkos you deserve a free ticket to the Eatern Bloc

We need to send theves off to reform and labor camps and for those it don't work for, we should adopt Saudi Arabia laws and remove fingers and hands.

It does less to keep them on the street or not arrest them. Until a full system is set up like Solutions for Change, then everything else doesn't work.

Props to him for owning it 💯

...and feel comfortable admitting it

I'm sure John Stossel felt that

Only devisive tribalism can exist, and that's what the globalist billionaires have been promoting - Feudalism for them, Marxist poverty for you.

No free society can last without the correct law and order. Both Left and Right get this wrong. We need law and order, but we only need law and order for things that are true crimes against humanity. Not for things that we don't like. The Right wants to lock everyone up for drugs, prost., and a ton of other things they despise. The Left wants to lock up everyone for using the wrong pronouns, owning a gun, and a ton of other things. Only the Libertarians know that violence and property rights violations are the only things that people should be locked up for.

@@bryanboone7363 You don't understand how drugs and prostitution damage society and families.

@@lpsoldin3162 99% of the violence from drugs and prost. comes from the War on Drugs. Not the drugs themselves. In nations where drugs are legalized, the problems are a fraction of a percent of what they are in the USA. Throwing people in cages and destroying their lives with life-long criminal records for vices that they do not see as afflictions isn't going to "cure" them. It's only going to make them far worse. The police cannot even keep drugs out of prisons, and you think they can keep it out of a nation of 330 million people? Give me a break.

@@33Donner77 thats the work of WEF

This video showed the complete opposite of what you just said. The editing of the questions being asked and the answers given was simply disgusting.

Agreed, he is great journalist

A ton of voices have predated Sossel's words. No one cared, probably called them nazis for speaking out.

I do like John. But if that's the best we can get then I'm really worried. Sometimes it's a little too liberal for me. He kind of double speaks. He waffles. You're not really sure exactly where he stands on anything. He asks questions that he doesn't even believe. I've been watching him before he was on 20/20.

I'll give you sane, but not most important. Sane translated as calmly reasonable.

Ban them from red states .

Their plan is to turn USA into a wasteland

Austin, TX is doing that for him...

Nah he's a good guy. I'm a conservative and I would still highly recommend his books

Okay, you know nothing of the epiphiny he had about 3 years ago when he realized the entire leftist agenda is bs....including their climate change scam

"It's always been that way!" Nailed it.

Those San Francisco leaders who claim to be progressive are not really progressive. The definition of progressive is someone who is not happy with the status quo who wants to try new ideas. A true progressive is willing to hear different ideas and compromise. A true progressive doesn't keep pushing failing ideas if something doesn't work they try a different stratagey. A true progressive doesn't suggest things blindly they do alittle research and logically about something before they suggest it. I don't think homelessness is a crime if the homeless person cleans up after themselves and behaves but I realize that most homeless people are not like that and the bad homeless people do need to be punished. I realize we can't spend money on programs to help the homeless if the program is not producing results. I am against alot of homeless programs because they fail to address the root of the problem a lack of affordable housing.

@@Weathernerd27 No true Scotsman fallacy aside I think your definition of progressive is better described as "classical liberal." The leaders of San Francisco would probably describe themselves as "progressive." So I guess it comes down to who you ask what the proper definition of progressive is. Serious question: If you can't blame the greedy developers/construction companies for houses being unaffordable in San Francisco what other factors play a role in unaffordable housing? I'm being serious. I really want to know what you think.

@@theophilus5132 I think there are several parts to solving the problem. Yes developers have gotten greedy and overcharged that is part of it. I also think businesses are partly to blame they should let more of their workers work remotely, with todays modern technology we don't need to have everyone live in a overcrowded city. I also think zoning laws need to change in a city as dense as San Francisco you need to have alot of multifamily housing and there can't be so much red tape that its impossible to build anything. I realize housing has to be rationed in San Francisco because there is not enough of it but I don't think it should be rationed based on price I'd rather you had to get on a waitlist and people were chosen from the list based on random lottery. This would piss off alot of rich people but the angry rich people would pressure the government to solve the housing shortage and the government might actually listen to the rich people. I think there should be a program to help homeless get back on their feet but if the program isn't working we need to try something else and homeless people who make a mess/act crazy should be punished.

@@Weathernerd27 California (as a whole) has spent 17.5 billion (yes billion) over the past four years combating homelessness. What more could they possibly do in terms of "creating a program that helps the homeless?" If 17.5 billion has barely made a dent in homelessness why look to the government to solve the problem?

interestingly many of the 'progressive activists' are of the same complexion as many of the 'business owners.'

If progressive activists gave two shits about business owners they would never have instituted these policies in the first place. Businesses are the enemy. Businesses represent capitalism, and if you're a socialist you want capitalism vanquished for good; wrecking a city's economic base is considered a victory to these idiots.

Chesa who?

Only learnt about weather underground couple weeks ago from Gavin Mcinnes channel, terrible people.

Chesa Boudin's father is a convicted murderer. Bad genes.

Oh you mean just a prototypical progressive P.O.S.? Got it.

The name of "Weather Understand" is very deceiving.

It really caught traction in the 1960's with the "if it feels good, do it" mantra. The founders of the Frankfurt School must be smiling "up" in glee about what is happening in the US.

@@gertexan Your CIA deliberately released drugs like LSD into the community. The American people need to run that organisation out of town.

@@gertexan It's not just the US it's throughout the world. I live in Australia and it is the same here and it is bad here.

But look at the flip side. Those artistic piles of human feces. Those lovely yellow puddles.

We too left my husband’s hometown of Portland, OR 13 years ago as we could see that Portland was turning into San Fransisco.😢 The jewel of the Columbia/Willamette River area is now just a memory😭.

What the left touches, they destroy.

I wish I had done that in Seattle. The coup de gras was the Summer of 2020 riots, burning and looting. This once gorgeous city is in ruins.

@@laureencriss8220 I remember Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan said; it was the Summer of Love. "The cops are the real criminals, man," "It's the criminals who are the real victims, man." In this "autonomous" zone, the new world would come to be. Also, thanks to progressives left wing, Auntifa and Burn Loot and Murder.

You inhaled second hand marijuana smoke?!! By God how did you ever recover from such a catastrophic event??

@@Harib_Al-Saq Well weed does turn people into useless lazy shitbags, so i do see his point.

I went to rural Georgia and I did not feel safe. During my 3 day stay i witnessed people stealing government subsidies to farm dirt. Animal excrement EVERYWHERE...dodged sprays of chewing tobacco, inhaled lungfuls of pitch black exhaust from some 17 year olds in a raised pickup rolling coal, oh and heard the popping of deer rifles everywhere. I did not feel safe. Im from south NJ where we have similar problems. Conservatives need to act on these failed rural area problems before they spread into the city

They need to understand empathy is one thing. That doesn’t mean enabling them to do crazy things. They all need to learn that hard time do help mature people.

You might have been in hell and second-hand crack smoke too

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.” - H.L. Mencken, A Little Book In C Major

Sounds good,. But, you know...libs and all

That's colonizer thinking...don't you know all these criminals are just oppressed and they just need stuff ? Do you want them to get jobs and actually buy it ? /sarcasm.

The victim is the criminal. The criminal is the victim. See, it is the oppressions of the law that is the problem in the left's view. To them, crime is a symptom, not a cause. They are brain damaged. They never developed a sense of personal responsibility or accountability. It is a mental disorder. They won't fix their own car, that is someone else's job. Won't change their own oil. Mow their own lawn. Create a job, shit put out a small fire... it is always... always... someone else who is responsible to do something. It is to the point that property managers are complaining they won't change a light bulb in their own apartment. They cannot conceptualize that a criminal is doing something out of their own selfish choice, it HAS TO BE SOMEONE OR SOMETHING ELSE that is at fault. You cannot argue with them, their brain literally is damaged, that part of their brain never developed, it is a black hole of information when trying to reason with them. They simply cannot process the concept of personal accountability an responsibility. They are trapped 'Puer aeternus' and you cannot correct that.

Now they can shift to increasingly criticizing the police. Btw, “…victims deserve justice.”? I think that’s one of the most neglected responsibilities, lost in the political landscape. Ty

It’s too late. They have already completely neutered the police. It is going to take the better part of a decade in order to rebuild departments and remove the stigma that police legitimately have developed against using lawful force. That will be necessary so they can get control again. And that process is not going to be pretty. Think New York City in the 90s. But that’s not going to happen because a lot of the laws that were passed in the last 3-5 years will have to be repealed. And they’re in the 9th circuit, so don’t expect court cases to suddenly start going the police’s way.

I agree with about 99% of what Stossel preaches... An example of something I disagree with in this video, is when he said that, "people should have the right to be outdoors." What does he mean by that exactly? In LA, and the surrounding area, they have tent cities up, and down the sidewalks, and they even took over Venice Beach for a while... Should that be allowed to?

@@Tony-Plinkett John says things like that in all his videos, he's just playing devil's advocate to see their response. He tries showing both sides of the argument and sometimes shows how stupid one side really is without having to say it.

​@@Tony-Plinkett I agree. I wonder how Stossel would feel if a homeless encampment started up in front of his house or business and daily he had to deal with the trash, drug use, theft, noise, smell of pee and pooh, fires, police... I guess their rights trump our rights in Stossel's world.

@@jr303official Very often he does play devil's advocate, but in this case not. He genuinly believes that people can be homeless if they want, that that is their right. Even if they have enough money to rent a house or get government help.

@@Rambleon444 Stossel believes in the privatisation of litterally everything, meaning also the road where he lives. In his libertarian utopia homeless people wouldn't be aloud on his roads. By the way Im not saying I agree with him, I am trying to explain his pov

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.” Marcus Tullius Cicero

This is an American issue. In other countries progressives help modernise the country and solve issues that were plaguing society. American progressivism is not true progressivism

Yeah! Like firearms! People gas on and on about wanting their precious firearms. Clearly a lot of people are not responsible and capable of having firearms in their possession.

@@xannmax you know, the people that shouldn't have guns will find a way to get them. If you want this problem to stop, you should ban firearms and return to use swords and shields. And why not stop using cars and use horses, since it's better for the environment while at it? /s

​​​@@xannmaxo there's this thing called *"Smuggling"* where criminals ask their connections from overseas to send them items illegally, From drugs to firearms

@@xannmax we have constitutional carry in Tennessee, just about everyone carry’s a gun … come on over and try that at our stores , see what happens

We don't. They'll either move somewhere else, or wake up to the smell of their own... you know.

Shellenberger's good on a lot of topics now. He's had a some great discussions with Alex Epstein on climate change.

i think theyre both jews?

oh you have so many less rights then the poor and the homeless.

It’s all about who will actually pay the fines.

@@josephmcclary9667 exactly lol

If you have money they will take it. If they know you have almost nothing, the paperwork and processing costs more than they could hope to extract from you.. so they won't. It's business.

The people selling the hot dogs, or committing a parking violation will pay the fines. The drug dealers will not pay anything, and cost money if they go to jail. San Francisco is just taking money from those that can still pay. They will only learn when the tax slaves all go away.

It's sad. Tourists go there, get their cars broken into, bags and possessions stolen ...

They enacted ‘One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest’ leftist laws making it almost impossible to have someone committed.

The leftist talking point "Regan got rid of mental health facilities." As per usual, they don't know what they are talking about.

I'd also like to add that they've done everything legally possible to get rid of "Slums" and prosecuting and persecuting "Slumlords". The result of this is no investor wants anything to do with a "Class F" property, which many would call a "slum". Unfortunately, the factor left out of this equation is that "Class F" properties are *much cheaper in rent.* So, yes, the properties are all very nice now, no more "slums" anywhere, *but the Very Poor can not afford anything.* Guess where they go?

@@jaclyn1755 what such people don’t know is that it was federal legislation signed by JFK that started this movement, which also created the National Institute for Mental Health. Governor Reagan was vilified but everyone thought that a new generation of medications would obviate the need for institutionalization. Later, the Lanteman-Petris- Short Act Of 1967 put the brakes on involuntary commitment in California.

​@@cognitivedissidents4642 Hell is paved with good intentions.

Anthem? Excellent reference!

@@BackToYa yes indeed

@@Ultima742 Neil died describing himself as a bleeding heart liberal. Which is fine when these things dont touch you on a regular basis I guess.

@@MichaelBoltonsEntireCatalog but they still rocked in their prime- Rush rules!

@@joemiller9931 That is true. Had a hell of a run...from Fly By Night to Test For Echo...sans Caress Of Steel, although that was the seeds for 2112.

That's why we must punish those who committed crimes on Jan. 6. Not issue blanket pardons like Trump wanted.

@@lenblack1462 but not BLM and Antifa ....right?

@@RJ1999x I'm not sure what crimes that BLM has committed and who the individuals are as they are a peaceful group. As far as Antifa goes, the cops in Portland were at the point of just letting the Antifa guys just fight with the Proud Boys because they were saying these guys just want to fight each other, but I say lock them up for disorderly conduct.

@@RJ1999x exactly 💯

@@lenblack1462 correct. Now that we got those down let's move on to the rioters during the summer of love right? Leave no stone left unturned

The great thing about John is that he doesn't cater to bullshit leftist ideology.

We need more pragmatic decision makers and less progressive propaganda

He learned. You may be surprised what you see if you watch his 90s/early 2000s content

I lived just north of SF while in Jr and High school (1958-1963). It was a great city to visit; I would love to take my grandkids to see it but don't dare. I can afford the trip but not the security detail needed!

I'm from the bay and I haven't been to SF in about 5 years. It's horrendous. The shots portrayed in the video is actually how SF looks like.

@@SirChocula seattle too

No status in owning a nice home in SF anymore. Might as well be Mogadishu or Mexico City..

Sounds like you're describing my last visit to Seattle with family from outside the state. NEVER again! The left only know how to destroy civilization!

@@telcobilly hey Mexico City is actually nice

If you're not cheating, you're not trying

But THAT'S just a theory!

And what’s going on isn’t some stupid f****ng game.

@@Monkerey well the observation support it

@@pmscalisi look up game theory, not the youtube channel, actual game theory.

Well you know what they say about common sense, if it was common, everyone would have it.

Indeed. These people were too open minded to the point where their brain fell out.

He just think he is smarter than other people because he couldn't see through the consequences of his past approach.

Uh...actually I learned it when I was about 4 when I got my first spanking around 1968 because I had in fact done something WRONG.

This is what happens when you constantly protect the child from every tiny mistake, instead of letting the child learn from mistakes.

A tent encampment recently burned down in Seattle... I wonder if that guy's car wound up there and he'd finally had enough

That’s where SOME places are at dear.

@@hew195050 I’d say it’s more than “some”

the clever but obvious editing, makes me suspicious

@@zpgJiggleBilly *_hmmmm_*

@@zpgJiggleBilly finally someone said it lol

Well the voters there wanted this so enjoy! Did you honestly think it wouldn’t continue to get worse and worse? Sorry, no sympathy from me!! 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@zpgJiggleBilly He often shows full interviews, but yeah, you shouldn't blindly trust anyone.

Short of bombing. People like him destroyed a city. He’s not making the city better. He’s writing a book and making money off it. He’s not even close to be a good man.

@@zeorhymer6 people like him destroyed a city not on purpose but through stupidity. The book might help save who knows how many future cities from destruction. If that makes him a little money I'd say it's money well earned. Most people won't publicly admit their old ideas were garbage and destructive even if you pay them. So I still think he's very unique.

He is not a good man. He is evil and his poor decisions have long lasting impact and hurts other people. I don't think San Francisco will recover anytime soon. Everyone I know, even die-hard fans, are leaving SF.

@@_w_w_ If we can't provide a path of forgiveness and redemption, then how are we any better? You need to bury the hatchet with people who have seen the error of their ways. How else are we going to swell our ranks to oust the progressive agenda if we gatekeep the very people who are now choosing to oppose their former ideology?

@@GabeSweetMan I think we, as a society, have too little penalty for crimes against mankind. Many progressive liberal policies, have foreseeable danger and consequences well predictable in advance, were pushed by those using very unscrupulously methods. Those people should be punished heavily. People go to jail for victimizing an individual, but here we have someone victimizing an entire community and then some - how is that fair not to penalize them? To learn from these mistakes, we must hold these people accountable - it's too easy to say "ooops" when the scale of damage and impact is so severe.

In Sweden people commit terrorism to facilitate art robberies and get away with it

@Zachary P Unfortunately the problem is growing.

@@zacharyp8617 It is curious that you say this about your country when you yankies accuse other countries of the same thing, you only see a small region and say that the whole country is like that, and if someone says that you are wrong, you get angry and have the audacity to correct that person as if you were absolutely right. How does it feel to go through the same thing?

@@samanthac6027 Did this specific individual do that? If not, then the argument is not valid. How about you correct the individuals who have actually done that, instead of targeting a random person to air your grievances at?

Are you sure Sweden forces people in to rehab against their will? That doesn’t sound right because that doesn’t sound like a rehab and forcing a person to withdraw from drugs maybe detoxes them but doesn’t deal with the issue of the drug use.

Democrats love police. How else can they enforce unconstitutional laws like firearm restrictions or ticket people for everything from parking to having aftermarket window tint? More police would just mean more tax collectors ignoring criminals who can't pay fines.

There is more violent crime in red states. Republicans don't support law enforcement as Jan. 6 and their current feelings about the FBI clearly show. Hiring homeless people to clean streets is a good progressive idea.

100% agree

The problem is progressives and liberals have tied their values to their politics. Until you unwind and decouple that, nothing will change.

How will voting out democrats solve these problems? 15/15 worst states for obesity = red states 10/15 worst states for murder rates = red states 14/15 worst states for child poverty = red states 13/15 worst states for adult poverty = red states 14/15 worst states for teen pregnancy rates = red states 13/15 worst states for infant mortality = red states 11/15 worst states for rape rates = red states 14/15 worst states for health insurance coverage = red states 13/15 worst states for food insecurity = red states 12/15 worst states for GDP = red states 14/15 worst states for median household income = red states 11/15 worst states for high school graduation = red states 13/15 worst states for college graduation = red states

He’s still progressive and will continue to vote against himself. It’s what they do.

They have barely even begun to get what they deserve.

@@10speed4 💯

That's like murdering a bunch of people and then saying I'm sorry and that makes it ok. NOT !

No, admitting you are a Democrat, and what you've been doing is destructive is the first step to recovery.

@@kdrapertrucker Essentially the same thing.

@@AGhostInTheMachine although the actions are essentially the same thing, recognizing it isn't. Some people might recognize that they are democrat, but not that they are destroying everything. Others that they are destroying everything, but not that they are democrats (and thus the party is destroying everything). We need them to realize both.

@@federicocaputo9966 Sure, but in essence the same. Thanks for the analysis.

Indeed.

I don't care if someone is starving and cold etc . There are plenty of support services available and stealing is not the answer.

I'm not sure how any type of store could continue to do business there?

But having Louis Vuitton is a life or death need says the BLM!

I thought stealing was stealing. I guess we don't share the same values. SMH.

and now you on the 88 pipeline, keep fooling youself amerikkkan

Ya but it leaks out into other places eventually. Like a sickness. Historically, no one seems to take that into consideration

Nice. Spoken like a really empath. Congratulations.

Amen

Total bullshit!! Research shows that the death penalty in certain countries (yours including) does not WORK! Proof, murder rates are rising. Do your research before making nonsense quotes!!!

@@paulagbaku3025, I didn’t say anything about the death penalty. You haven’t refuted my point.

Here’s the problem. Most ppl with these law and order mentalities own homes that are paid off. Check this out my rent for a one bedroom apartment was 2500 it went to 2800 could you pay it? I work 7 days a week

If where gonna punish ppl for stealing food we should punish ppl for causing the person who stole the food to be beaten down that low that they have to steal food in the greatest country in the world

The worst thing that could happen is we lose empathy for each other and it’s happening. The price increase if you don’t own watch out it’s coming for you

I wish john didn't edit the rest of his response out. It might have gone something like: yes, progressives tend to be on the wrong side of history, supporting prop 47 and all the other stupidity of 2020, but a few decades ago we were usually on the right side, fighting against the military industrial complex and putting people before corporate interests.

@@majermike They're always on the wrong side. Widroow Wilson. 🤡

@@yukihirasouma4691 they were on the right side after 911, opposing handing our money over to the military industrial complex to fight a war on "terror" while the right went along with the mainstream media fear mongering, liberals and conservatives are just silly little roles the elite give us so we can bicker with eachother instead of noticing theyre robbing us blind

I feel your pain. Chicago is a war zone.....

As soon as America forgot and wickedly forsaken the LORD.... Those who failed to learn from history are condemned to repeat it.

@@analyticalhabitrails9857 First a city, then a nation...

Corrupt, yes. Inept, no. SF mayor is highest paid in the world, even more than the POTUS, and that's only legit part of her salary.

Thank Biden for that. And socialists and communists.

😂🤣 Just blast the blame cannon until something sticks, right purple cultist American?

You've never stolen anything.

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread. Emma Goldman,

@@BlueJDMMR2 Trying to make thievery moral is just lazy. You are taking what someone else worked to make. If death was a risk to stealing, there would be less theft. I never understood why quoting someone saying something stupid was viewed as intellectual.

@@Mobus_ "And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners with access to history, with eyes to read history and to know the great fact: when property accumulates in too few hands it is taken away. And that companion fact: when a majority of the people are hungry and cold they will take by force what they need. And the little screaming fact that sounds through all history: repression works only to strengthen and knit the repressed. The great owners ignored the three cries of history. The land fell into fewer hands, the number of the dispossessed increased, and every effort of the great owners was directed at repression. The money was spent for arms, for gas to protect the great holdings, and spies were sent to catch the murmuring of revolt so that it might be stamped out. The changing economy was ignored, plans for the change ignored; and only means to destroy revolt were considered, while the causes of revolt went on." - John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath

@@BlueJDMMR2 Oh, okay, you just hate the rich. Until you're the rich. This is what we call narcissism. Selfishness is your problem. What you fail to realize is that many working class are employed by the rich.

I thought that title sounded familiar! That's not cool Michael!

The libertarian side of me doesn't find a good reason for prohibiting public tents. The common sense side of me realizes it's probably unsanitary, drives away people and businesses and makes it harder to move around. I think I'll side with common sense in this one.

@@federicocaputo9966 And smelling like piss . month old piss .

@@federicocaputo9966 I think libertarians, myself included, sometimes forget that being a libertarian doesn't mean we don't believe in ANY government regulation. We simply want limited intervention. I'd like to think that all libertarians would agree that I probably shouldn't have the right to start building a home in the middle of a busy intersection and so why should we allow homeless people to set up tents on public walkways?

It is because of shitty liberalist thoughts we want to reform a conservative religious society

Head start, then K-12 all free... NO marketable skills learned... No concept of how the free market system works. ZERO instruction about individual responsibility. Layers and Layers of training in victimhood and generational entitlements

@@Adhilmedia In other words Libs impose their point of view on others.

And you are constantly trying to disarm law abiding citizens.

So just out of curiosity, are americans mostly criminals. You put more of your population in jail then China or Russia. Is it possible that people like you are the problem, not the progressives. Think about if, if you can do that.

@@dalelore2725 Just out curiosity, my friend. Do you live here? I do. The issue with people being in jail for things they may not need to be things, is true. Such as small drug offences. However, that doesn't mean you should decriminalize theft, which was my point. I have seen people in stores stealing all kinds of shit. Not all of them look like they need it, besides the fact that many look like they're on drugs. There is also organized groups of people who go around stealing shit, because they know they won't be prosecuted. The "progressive" people just look the other way as if just bc you are feel like, you should be allowed to break in or steal. They have also been releasing lots of dangerous assholes, who should be in jail. You should look into that.

@@Innate75 I do think there does come a limit to how many and how long criminals can be incarcerated. If the main issue with arresting thieves is "not enough space or funds for prison" then that's still a reasonable concern. By that point, there's too many. Theft is widely regarded as a slap on the wrist affair at the most. People don't go to life in prison for theft, let alone a year. Even if they consistently steal. The reasoning is that they need space for the murderers and rapists. Fair enough, if they're becoming a large problem that's something to consider. I think what I'm getting at and what I've seen as the main issue from these cities is how do you democratically get rid of a metastisized criminal problem that's so wide spread that you would need a prison the size of a small town to house them all, and round them up too? What happens when the lawless are so common place that there's no way to affordably house them in jail or net them all in at once? I get the feeling that the city does have practical reasons why it can't just sweep the streets and figure out a lasting solution to the homeless problem. Hell, at this rate you could sell them as slaves and nobody would buy them because they're so useless.

@@jasongibson1225 for sure there's a limit. The issue is that since they decriminalized "small" theft, it has gotten way worse. For sure you don't send someone to jail for a yr for stealing 10 bucks, but people aren't stupid and they figure out real quick that if nothing happens, then why not do it. Maybe there's a better solution, but in the meantime if it works why not do it.

Yep.

The road to hell is paved with good intentions.

@@johnmnorris9397 History has proven that time and again. Look at what happened in Russia, China, Cuba and Venezuela.

So the take away is progressivism is evil and has no place in America. That liberals must be banned from the political arena and should keep there lousy ideas to themselves.

We should be(must be) protecting ourselves.

It seems like we are policing the world now, is that in the Constitution that we do that?

This couldn't be further from the truth.

@@thundernegro Bingo!

they wanna be nice to them bc they john doe was a "good boy with a kind heart"

What do you think the agenda is? It looks like they just hate humanity and want to ruin society.

Agreed

cant say ur wrong. 1 or 2 walk around with a short arm, and watch that crime rate plummet

@@hatoosy that's how other countries used to do it. Caught once. 1 hand cut off. Caught again. Second hand cut off. They don't have too many 3 strike offenders. And it was done in public to warn others not to steal.

I don't think medieval folks cut off hands (it's either some other punishment or just death) but I believe for these sort of crimes they have a little something called pillory, where everyone's free to ridicule and harass you. Back then when population was small that pretty much shames you to the rest of the community. These days people would be taking videos of you as they throw stuff at you and immortalize it on the internet. I'd say bring that back first. If it don't work then we can consider chopping off hands.

@@nunyabiznes33 i like your imput but these people have no shame. they know security video and mugshot going on tv and internet. i think lot of them are proud to be on videos breaking law.

@@SgtJoeSmith well, I guess there are those people. I remember Cardi B bragging about stealing a man's money and people actually cheered her.

and make SURE you DONT VOTE LEFFT where ever you moved to.

Remember, his theft won't work if you don't steal. Wait. Something like that.

They are cracking all right.

While living in SF, you voted for democrats?

You hit the nail on the head there. I was listening to talk radio on the subject of homelessness and a guy called in and said he worked with them for 15 years before realizing that this is the life they want. They would set them up in apartments and in one week half of them would be gone and in three months the rest of them would be gone and the place would be trashed.

They keep us private security officers employed that's for sure !!

@@michaelmohrle1773 I like the security guard in the video. He's doing a great job of making a video of them stealing.

Mist, not all, homeless are mentally I’ll.

@@joemiller9931 I was talking about the rich who vote for this crazy stuff but of course they must hire private security for their protection.

Only when he's not bought and paid for, like his pro-vaxx video

He most certainly tries to, but imo not always succeeds. He didnt mention how this is a long term plan, you cant just finance schools and expect results in 3 months. The rest is quite fair.

@@pawepiat6170 Financing schools is a horrible idea. Parents matter WAY more than money spent on schools. If, for example, you want to know why black students fare so poorly. look at the rate of single parent (especially single mother) homes. If kids have good parenting, they will learn even if that means their parents wind up doing the job. Schools are glorified babysitters. Their ability to actually teach is minimal. They rarely even bother to ensure the teachers are qualified, thanks to unions who over protect bad teachers and school boards and governments who are in bed with said unions, which is how such awful policies wind up in contracts. As always, trying to fix a problem with more government spending is doomed to fail.

@@ligafftheindifferent3495 and trying to fix systemically downfalls with even less support is also stupid. You have 2 groups of people that live side by side, and one of them has much better parenting, why? Is it that blacks have some culture thing for being single mothers, or maybe, just maybe, there is some bigger force at play, like poverty, access to transportation, better schools? Even when black students have one parent, graduating a better school or having one that gets you a high school diploma increces the chances the next generation won't be a single parent household. It's all interconnected, better schools and jobs will lead to small decrease in parents leaving their children. This in turn will better the education... And so on. You just need the initial push. How do you expect for poor parents to pick up all the slack from their shitty schools? Rich folks can spend more time with family and get better schools. It's a circular problem. I know because post soviet states have similar problems with cities and villages. The latter have been left behind in transition to new system and many are struggling. However, we are past saying to them to "pull themselves by the boot straps" and try offer them courses for new jobs. Free Healthcare and education that is more uniform for their children. Lately even transit is returning to small villages. Those people had a promise of a good life in communism, and theyve done everything previous system required from them. Yet they never got the reward. And Americans are also going to get a diploma like they should, get a car like they should, and yet some are still left behind. I am not a socialist (how the fuck VAT works?) , but I understand the value of social services. And maybe you consider schools gloryfied babysitters, but they can be more then that. Besides, even calling them babysitters is doing them injustice. Have you tried explaining quadratic function to some young teens? Or division to kids?

@@pawepiat6170 How would "poverty, access to transportation, and better schools" have anything to do with men abandoning their families? Plenty of poor people stayed together before, saved up money to buy a used vehicle, and learned ethics from their parents. Abandonment of the family is a cultural thing, that has become normalized. As far as "shitty schools" blacks always wanted to run their schools with black principals and school boards. Modern urban high schools are a joke, the kids watch movies and more time is spent in disruption and disciple than teaching. If you are a math teacher it is your job to teach division to kids.

Wrong.

Incarceration is for violent offenders.

​@@thelasttaarakiansays the criminal

This. Though mass incarceration looks bad, it's ultimately the result of a culture that promotes victimhood and criminality, and avoids personal responsibility.

@@mjh48059 Couldn't say it better myself. It's also ultimately the result of a culture that devalues fathers and treats them like second-class parents,