Go here to see a documentary about the decline of Portland, Oregon, into squalor and death:
https://theatheistconservative.com/2023/04/12/an-american-city-chooses-squalor-and-death/
Sorry! This video has been removed by Leftist censors who are keen on American cities choosing squalor and death.
Yes, it’s like an “open air insane asylum”, and a “controlled demolition”. Another phrase often applied is - “managed decline”.
It’s a deliberately created crisis, thanks to the lunatic, idiot Marxists who run the places, and now run the entire country at the federal level.
Read this about “the real-world impact of progressivism”.
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In Portland, major businesses are pulling out in the aftermath of the takeover of the radical anarchists during COVID-19. Crime is so rampant that Walmart recently said “adios,” shutting down its last store. Rains PDX, a clothing store in Portland, shut down last November after a string of break-ins made it impossible to stay open. This printed sign pasted on the door says it all:
Small businesses (and large) cannot sustain doing business, in our city’s current state. We have no protection, or recourse, against the criminal behavior that goes unpunished. Do not be fooled into thinking that insurance companies cover losses. We have sustained 15 break-ins … We have not received any financial reimbursement since the 3rd.
Seattle is losing population. To be “progressive”, Seattle is imposing a massive capital gains tax increase — socking it to the rich. So they are fleeing the city and Washington.
The Left has transitioned our once-shining cities into slums, murder zones, homeless encampments and boarded-up stores. They have become cults of economic and political quackery — and tragically, few Democrats have the courage to speak out. They are worried about being called racists when the reality is that the victims — of terrible public schools, high murder rates and an anti-business creed — are the minorities they say they care so much about.
The fact that Chicagoans have elected not a reformer, but a deformer, suggests that inner-city residents still don’t get it — or they don’t care. Alas, our cities can’t be saved if the voters in these metropolises don’t want to be saved.
Yes, they’re turning the entire country into a communist hellhole. And this is “progress”??