If you look at policy towards the homeless in some of the country’s most liberal bastions, it is impossible to not come away with the conclusion that a depressing percentage of hyper Democratic dc and the surrounding metro area would back Trump on his concentration camp ideas or whatever he’d do
Gavin Newsom loves this one weird trick
It's #kanvasnacht because the homeless don't have windows
Im in SF and have been feeling this way… it’s terrifying and so sad. I even talked with my therapist about it and she told me, well you can always think of them going somewhere good. Maybe they’re back with their families or getting treatment.
Define “criminals”
I don’t think it’s wrong to want not to see people laying in the street. I also don’t think it’s wrong to want to have the homeless be treated humanely, and have the our states have policies to care for them. There is a high percentage of mentally ill which requires one solution,
homeless children which requires another, drug users which requires another solution. So it’s complicated.
In Los Angeles, there has been plenty of publicity about the inhumane conditions in our jails, which are on target for record deaths this year. But nice liberal people are comfortable with the police rounding up unhoused and mentally ill people to have them rot in jail rather than build houses.
I’ve heard similar stuff from LA. People get illiberal real fast when an injecting addict is camping on the sidewalk verge outside their house. The “median” response doesn’t really work: it’s Universal Basic Income + real healthcare OR death-camps. Pick a side.
There is the larger politics that people believe and the smaller personal life that they live. If someone is walking down the street or riding a subway, they want to be left alone. That's just reality.
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He is promising to detain and bus homeless people (US citizens) to concentration camps. And no one is alarmed.
As someone who lives in a high homelessness area (sf bay area), been saying the same since concentration camps were first floated back in term 1 or 2020 campaign, whenever it was: don’t try to vilify this, because you’ll just raise the profile of the policy people will actually like
Homelessness is one issue that even my politically like minded friends have icky opinions on.
It's too difficult an issue for our simple minded solutions. Homelessness is sometimes the problem(poss. solution a house), and sometimes that symptom(solutions might involve drug rehabilitation, gambling rehabilitation, then add a home or a mobile home as may be desird)
the cheapest, most effective, most humane policy is to give people housing, no strings attached, period we've known this for decades anyone opposed to this has their head firmly up their own ass
Exactly correct 👍.
Plenty of folks on the more liberal side of things have some shit views. That is basically disqualifying for me.
Whenever the subject of the unhoused comes up and the complaints and criticisms about what a bunch of lazy drug addicts they are I routinely reply that the answer to these problems is more help (esp. housing and healthcare) which could be paid for with higher taxes on corporations and billionaires.
And cuts in defense, corporate welfare, and fossil fuel subsidies. That usually ends the conversation.
And the weirdest part is that these are widely popular policies that the dems aren’t shouting about.
Not to say that I don’t take your overall point, I do, but DC residents’ sensibilities about Federal overreach at least attenuate the sentiment you describe.
I wouldn’t be so sure. We DC residents jealously guard the limited self-government we have and resent Federal overseers helicoptering (probably literally in this case) into a place that they really don’t know very well outside downtown and trying to use our city’s issues as a political prop.
Who does he keep thanking for their attention to whatever matter he posts about?
Trump is building camps for homeless people first because he knows the public won't care as much, before he turns and uses the camps for other groups of people.
Look, I'm not saying that centrist Dems have done a good job on this. But, I don't want to accede to the idea that centrists will just go along if Trump decides to lock down D.C. and push out homeless people en masse. Current estimated pop. = ~5,000 community-partnership.org/homelessness...
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Does he not realize how many of these people are vets? There's no empathy, aid, provisions. Just insults, violence & always making bad situations worse. Instead of his stupid ballroom perhaps OUR $$s could go to helping them out? W/all the deportations I'm sure there's room 🙄😕
