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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I feel like we are living through a revival of the Marion Barry 1980s and 90s with a DC Government that is completely dysfunctional with respect to crime, such that businesses and middle class residents---who returned to the city during 1996 through 2018---will again retreat to safer environs.    All these ridiculous progressives on the DC Council have no idea what DC was like then but I remember.  The area around the Verizon Center was a pedestrian mall filled with nothing but druggies, their dealers, and muggers.  H Street and 14th Street were still largely boarded up from the 1967 riots.  On Capitol Hill, it wasn't safe to go north of E Street or east of Lincoln Park.  Forget about being safe in Shaw, or the Eckington/Union Market area.  It took 20 years for Marion Barry to drive the city so far into dysfunction that it had to be taken over by a Control Board.  So we probably have 15 more years of this to go, unfortunately.[/quote]

I was here for that. We’ve come. Long way. Now we’re so paralyzed by offending criminals we won’t fight crime. People have their heads full of hip academic buzzwords they know little about, but enjoy repeating. They are convinced it’s all structural racism and we shouldn’t incarcerate anyone…so yeah, things will suck for a long time. Probably until 8th street se returns to being boarded up from lack of demand. It was nice having new restaurants. I guess motherfkers always want to learn the hard way.[/quote]

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