…it isn’t. Not by a long shot.
My previous blog showed how decimated major cities – almost all of them “blue” (Democrat-run) cities – are with violent crime.
And then we have this, from Will Potter’s unsettling article for London’s Daily Mail:
Meals on Wheels has stopped operating in downtown Portland as its frustrated bosses say they can’t keep staff safe in the crime-ridden city.
The charity said this week it is closing its two facilities in the city, with frustrated Meals on Wheels Chief Executive Officer Suzanne Washington telling reporters it was a ‘long time coming.’
Washington lamented a lack of action to curb crime as the reason for the decision, which brought the charity’s 20-year stay at its popular Elm Court location to a close.
‘I can’t keep our staff safe and our volunteers safe because there’s always something happening,’ she said, per KION.
‘We’ve been threatened with knives, and fires have been set. It was time to close.’
Washington said the charity has been continually losing volunteers due to the conditions they are forced to work in, including coming face-to-face with vagrants and criminals almost every day.
‘Every day, they’re stepping over feces, and there’s needles and drug dealing and deaths,’ she said.
This is what happens when, as the article says, there is “a lack of action to curb crime”. Crime, not at all surprisingly, proliferates and becomes more and more open. Why not? No one is doing almost anything about it so there are no rules.
This same story could just as easily have been written about Los Angeles, or San Francisco, or Saint Louis, or Chicago, or….I think you get the idea.
This, folks, is one of the key reasons – maybe the single biggest reason – why Democrats are losing voters and Republicans are gaining them. And, with very few exceptions, Democrat “leaders” don’t seem to have caught on yet.
Too bad for them, and – much more significantly – too bad for the people they are supposedly representing.
