Portrait of urban America 2023:
They wander among the stinking ruins of a once great civilization, along the cracked streets, over the perilous bridges, past looted abandoned stores, hundreds of thousands of filthy sick drugged demented criminal vagabonds, naked or clothed in excrement- and vomit-stained rags, young and old, masculine feminine or neutered, pausing in the midst of the crowd to copulate sodomize fellate urinate defecate and inject their bleeding bodies with heroin cocaine fentanyl, finally slumping down on the foul bed of their own detritus to die.
City councils supply the syringes needles and drugs. And collect the corpses.
Victor Davis Hanson lists and gives examples of disasters that have befallen us. He writes at American Greatness, asking and suggesting an answer to the question we most want answered:
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This litany of disasters could be vastly expanded, but more interesting is the why of it all.
The streets of our major cities in just a few years have become precivilizational—there are more human feces on the sidewalks of San Francisco than were in the gutters of Medieval London.
The operating principle is either to allow or to engineer things to become so atrocious in everyday American life—the inability to afford food and fuel, the inability to walk safely in daylight in our major cities, the inability to afford to drive as one pleases, the inability to obtain or pay back a high interest loan—that the government can absorb the private sector and begin regimenting the masses along elite dictates.
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These extracts are from this article on our website:
https://theatheistconservative.com/2023/09/04/a-great-deal-of-ruin/
(paraphrasing a great line from Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid)