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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have lived here all my life. 60 years. I wish I could understand where the decline began. I grew up in Wheaton which was lower/middle class but still a great place to grow up. Parents are still there and the area they live is now a disgusting shithole. So different and such an incredible decline.
My family moved out to 20905 which was more peaceful, still middle class and by the time my kids were old enough to go to middle school and high school, the quality of the local school plummeted.
Mont county has changed for the worse. Where we used to have reasonable representatives, we now have extremists with ridiculous agendas. My neighborhood was nice but now looks terrible because the road is crumbling, and too many people living in houses so cars parked up and down the street which wasn’t designed for this. My house and shed broken into. Crime is up and honestly, the people moving in are sketch. I see more cop cars coming thru to investigate, I smell weed all the time, and people just don’t care about keeping their home looking nice. 
The decline is a combination of so many things but the people we have in office are a huge part of this. 
They push bike riding or taking the bus and make decisions based on this but I bet my house none of them use public transportation. They focus on serving outlier populations and giving handouts out to just about everyone but middle class. I am sick and tired of the taxes I pay to get nothing in return. This increase is another slap in the face. [/quote]

It began with term limits that force politicians to be activists to get their name recognition.

Along with forcing super majority votes for tax increases and budgets.

A dying local press that can no longer provide detail. I hope the competition between the Banner and Bethesda whatever-it-is-this-week brings back some more meaningful reporting, so the public actually knows what's going on.

And finally, immediate social media trolling and threats when politicians do the "wrong" thing that upsets any particular constituent group.

Politicians now do less for the common good and more to mitigate the loudest threats to their power.

Good governance is now a liability to their careers.

It was never perfect. But it didn't used to be this bad in Montgomery county.

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