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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nextdoor blowing up because a body was found outside Jetties....and.other confirming and that it was an OD.

[b]Seriously, MoCo is now a trash heap[/b].  Even Bethesda is now a drug infested den slinging dope. I really think only about 10-20% of the population is actually productive, doesn't commit crime, and is keeping the county alive. What happens when they leave?  Driving around MoCo the other day was just sad. So many beggars everywhere. People in parking lots selling sugar cane and coconuts while leaving trash and discarded waste everywhere.  So many ODs in MCPS. Now bodies are piling up in Bethesda.  👎[/quote]

One of the richest counties in one of the richest countries in the world is a "trash heap"?

Have you considered slithering back under the privliged-ass rock from whence you came and/or not being so poor MoCo is too trash cheap for you?[/quote]

Not that poster but we are also one of the most educated counties in the nation. So how did we allow the quality of life to degrade so much over the past 20 years? We have brains and money. But apparently not much common sense. [/quote]

A lot of it comes down to who is elected. The people elected tend to have more extreme left views than the general population, and tend to be from Takoma Park/Silver Spring area. Not a lot of representation from Damascus or Germantown other than the required location-specific Council positions.

Why do they get elected? Because we don't have open primaries, then whoever wins the primary for the Democrats becomes the winner in the general. But a lot of people don't vote in primaries, especially in an off-year (non presidential). To win in the primary you just need to court a few fringe groups who vote in heavy numbers to win. Elrich won the primary with 55,504 votes, ahead of more moderate Blair by 32 votes. In a county of 1 million people and 678,000 registered voters.

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the people who are elected received more votes than the people who aren't elected, and a lot of those votes come from places where a lot of the voters live![/quote]

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