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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The police are actually working again, so actual perceived crime is WAY down in our downtown building.  Astronomically as it had gotten fully out of control.  Of course we let this stupidity go on for so long that ICE is now kidnapping people, the restaurants are dying if not gone, and we basically gave up all our rights.  STUPID STUPID STUPID[/quote]

This. Why can’t we run the city (and country) without steering so far left we get this backlash? 
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One of the major changes I see in near NE is removing the homeless encampments. It's a major quality of life shift for everyone else. We'll see what comes back when it gets warm again, but clearing out the encampments under the bridges in NOMA was such a relief. It had reached a point where first I stopped walking through the area with my kid, and then I didn't even want to walk there on my own.

Some of this stuff is just common sense. Of course I have empathy for the homeless and would like the city to do what we can to help them find housing and provide services. Of course. But the idea that we simply have no choice but to allow people to set up tent cities wherever they want, and live in what can only be described as squalor? No, we don't have to do that.

Being a liberal does not mean punishing yourself by forcing yourself to accept literally anything. You can be liberal and be okay with cops prosecuting crime. You can be liberal and not be okay with people pissing and pooping on the sidewalk, drinking and sleeping and sometimes doing drugs on the street. You can be compassionate towards others while also having some standards for the community you live in.

I hate Trump btw. It is humiliating that he forced these issues while DC government sat on its hands. It makes us look so stupid.[/quote]

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