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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The federal Government needs to take over and run the city. Get rid of the mayor and city council. She's had it for ten years and has totally screwed it up.[/quote]

In a democracy, that’s up to the voters. Are you against democracy? [/quote]

LOL!  It’s the DC Democrats that are against Democracy.  When Congress gave D.C. an elected mayor and council back in the 1970s, there was concern that the city’s new legislative body would be dominated by Democrats. So to ensure some ideological diversity, equity, and inclusion, a compromise was hatched: at least two of the four at-large members can’t be Democrats. Initially that meant the council included representation from both the Republican Party and the Statehood Green Party, but for the last two decades there haven’t been any members from a non-majority political party. Instead, the council’s two non-Democrats are former Democrats who drop the party affiliation in order to run for council. The last person to do this was McDuffie, who formerly represented Ward 5… as a Democrat.  Cry us a river.  [/quote]

If a supermajority of people who live here are Democrats and vote Democrat, how is that undemocratic? No one said Republicans can't live here. They prefer McLean, VA.[/quote]

My extended family that lives mostly in DC proper like what's going on right now  They support tougher policing and removal of homeless.  They are low middle class to middle class and vote Blue.  Some things are objectively wrong and trying to do something to fix them is a positive thing. Whether the impact will be long term remains to be seen, and I would very much like to see permanent changes vs. temporary performative measures that give an appearance of things working.  But have to start somewhere, doing nothing only makes things worse over time.[/quote]

Your family sounds normal.  From private conversations most of my DC neighbors actually support this try, but are afraid to say so publicly because of the vocal and aggressive minority.  [/quote]

:lol:

no.

Wanting a change in policing (most DC residents probably on board) and wanting Trump to let a bunch of hillbilies in MRAPs harass citizens are two different things.

Trump doesn't understand what the actual crime problems in the district are, how can he possibly solve them?[/quote]

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