The consequences of “woke”. They’re not hard to imagine, and not hard to find.
Case in point: these excerpts from Martha Williams’ article for London’s Daily Mail:
Three years after Oregon voted to de-criminalize drug offences – residents are now begging to reverse their decision after seeing an astonishing number of deaths from opioid overdoses.
In 2020 – Oregon voters approved a measure to decriminalize the possession of all drugs including heroin and cocaine. The proposal, known as Oregon Ballot Measure 110, passed with 58.8 percent support.
Now residents of the liberal state are crying out to their politicians to do something about the open-air drug markets that their cities have turned into.
Opioid deaths in Oregon have gone up from 280, before the de-criminalization was voted in, to a whopping 955 deaths that were recorded in 2022.
The liberal city of Portland was once vibrant and booming – but like many other cities it has turned into a tent-covered abyss with soaring crime, endemic drug abuse and maniacal behavior.
Locals complain about having to step over used needles, shattered glass pipes and human feces on the way to work, and say they’ve become inured even to blood- curdling screaming fits from disturbed addicts.
Polls show that a majority of Portland’s 635,000 residents want to restore criminal penalties for drug possession, believing that Measure 110 has actually made the city’s addiction, crime and homelessness problems worse.
Ahhh, yes. The “woke” culture. Defund the police. Don’t prosecute criminality. Make drug use easy. Allow your streets to be tent cities and open air drug markets.
In other words, do things that any average-intelligence third grader could tell you would cause the disastrous problems Portland (among other similarly “woke” cities) are now seeing. And this is what you get.
Based on the inevitability of cause and effect, you can bet I’ll be writing more blogs on the consequences of “woke” in the future. Please watch for them.
