Hear My Prayers.
California is a great example of what occurs when the Left obtain power. And donât give me the BS about the California economy. Itâs a remnant of when Republicans controlled the State. Itâs like Hitler trying to take credit for good French wine. And the California economy is rapidly spiraling into oblivion. And as you see below, they have no answer.
The majority of the nationâs homeless people now live in California. There are myriad causes at work, no doubt. But there was no âdefecation crisisââa term usually associated with rural Indiaâin the 1930s, even with unemployment at 25%, vagabonds roaming the country, and shantytowns and âHoovervillesâ springing up everywhere. Todayâs homeless and the hobos of the Great Depression are different in many ways. The triple scourges of drug abuse, mental illness and family breakdown have produced anomie and derangements far deeper than those seen in the 1930s, when the widely shared nature of the economic and psychological distress provided its own grim comfort.
In California at least, one is struck by the contrast between the fastidious attention paid to the social duty of scooping up and disposing of dog feces, and the rather more paralyzed and guilty reaction to the plague of human feces. The former is treated as a moral imperative among the enlightenedâand the thin plastic bags used as the means to this moral end have so far escaped the fate of plastic straws, well on their way to being outlawed as an environmental outrage. Even social-justice warriors donât consider it their personal duty, however, to tidy up after their fellow human beings on the streets.
Confronted on the sidewalk with a nasty fait accompli, most people are indignant. But the questions they then ask often diverge. Those of a more traditional disposition might wonder, âWhat is wrong with these people?â Those of a more progressive mind-set might exclaim, âWhy hasnât the government designed a program to solve this?â
Opinion | Californiaâs Biggest Cities Confront a âDefecation Crisisâ
California is a great example of what occurs when the Left obtain power. And donât give me the BS about the California economy. Itâs a remnant of when Republicans controlled the State. Itâs like Hitler trying to take credit for good French wine. And the California economy is rapidly spiraling into oblivion. And as you see below, they have no answer.
The majority of the nationâs homeless people now live in California. There are myriad causes at work, no doubt. But there was no âdefecation crisisââa term usually associated with rural Indiaâin the 1930s, even with unemployment at 25%, vagabonds roaming the country, and shantytowns and âHoovervillesâ springing up everywhere. Todayâs homeless and the hobos of the Great Depression are different in many ways. The triple scourges of drug abuse, mental illness and family breakdown have produced anomie and derangements far deeper than those seen in the 1930s, when the widely shared nature of the economic and psychological distress provided its own grim comfort.
In California at least, one is struck by the contrast between the fastidious attention paid to the social duty of scooping up and disposing of dog feces, and the rather more paralyzed and guilty reaction to the plague of human feces. The former is treated as a moral imperative among the enlightenedâand the thin plastic bags used as the means to this moral end have so far escaped the fate of plastic straws, well on their way to being outlawed as an environmental outrage. Even social-justice warriors donât consider it their personal duty, however, to tidy up after their fellow human beings on the streets.
Confronted on the sidewalk with a nasty fait accompli, most people are indignant. But the questions they then ask often diverge. Those of a more traditional disposition might wonder, âWhat is wrong with these people?â Those of a more progressive mind-set might exclaim, âWhy hasnât the government designed a program to solve this?â
Opinion | Californiaâs Biggest Cities Confront a âDefecation Crisisâ
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