The elites didn’t realize that this is what they voted for?
In the year 1 BC (Before COVID), circa 2019, there was unending amusement to be found. Schadenfreude, to be more specific. Decades of Democrat rule in Los Angeles had finally managed to spill over into the nicer neighborhoods. Angry homeless addicts pushed out of the seediest parts of a city reaping what it sowed, into the nicer parts of “town“.
The elites didn’t realize that this is what they voted for?
Yes, they likely saw the problem “downtown,” and had one of their flunkies digitally ‘pen’ a tersely worded letter to the DA or their Councilman. If they thought of themselves as a particularly privileged and connected “constituent,” they’d actually call and complain. Something with the patina of… “Don’t you know who I am?” I pay a lot of accountants a lot of money to avoid a lot of the taxes I voted for, and this is just unacceptable. People I know, perhaps even myself (they whine), have been impacted, and Boston’s elites have joined this sad fraternity.
The streets of once-pristine communities have been littered with dangerous needles.
A clean-up crew supported by the Newmarket Business Improvement District has estimated they pick up about 1,000 needles a day across Boston.
Beacon Hill, where the median housing price is $2.8million, is just one of the areas feeling the burn.
‘WOW: Beacon Hill, Boston’s wealthiest neighborhood, now has open-air drug use on full display,’ a fed-up Bostonian wrote on a Facebook community page on Sunday.
The poop and crime are not far behind. And here’s an amusing aside. If your dog craps on the sidewalk and you don’t clean it up, you are subject to a potential $50.00 fine per occurrence in Boston. I could not find a specific ordinance related to human feces, but “indecency” had a few hits.
It shall be unlawful for any person within the village to make an indecent exposure of his or her person; to urinate or defecate in public view; to commit any indecent or lewd act; to sell or offer for sale or to dispense of in any manner any obscene, lewd or indecent book, picture or other publication or thing; to exhibit or perform any indecent, immoral, lewd or obscene play or other representation; or in any public place to write, draw or make any profane, obscene, indecent or lewd work, sentence, figure or design.
It was not clear what, if any, fine applied to this violation. It might be $25.00 or $500.00, not that a homeless person is going to pay that, which is again, part of the glory of the progressive experiment. And don’t look to the homeless advocates to be of any help. They all make their living off the problem. Solving it would put them out of business, and it’s big business—a lucrative offshoot of the Democrat party scheme. Break things, then make bank using the government to pretend to fix them.
You asked for it
Beacon Hill’s swanky denizens, in their $ 2.8 million homes, voted for this, and now that it is at their doorstep, they probably think they can wave a bundle of bills (or threaten to take them away), and someone in the government they voted for will make it disappear.
You’ll get some street theatre.
The police will show up and hustle the vagrants out, bulldoze their encampments, and maybe even detain a few, none of which will get the kind of coverage or outraged ICE gets for cleaning up the illegal alien problem. This isn’t the fake George Floyd thing. No one in the Blu Klux Klan is going to march a Guillotine into Beacon Hill or key your Tesla.
But it will all be back before you know it. The candidates you elected and the policies they enact, the very worldview upon which the one-party rule you helped create stands, invited this plague upon your houses. You asked for this. Paid for it, even. It is a zombie apocalypse, the not-so-nice parts of the city can no longer contain.
You were either smart or lucky enough to be wealthy, but you lacked the common sense to have seen this coming.
I don’t feel sorry for you at all.
