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The campaigning is over, thankfully. All the camera-grabbing riots, the scandals, the chest thumping and finger pointing is done.
\nSort of, anyway. Something missing, though. What happened to the homeless crisis? That was a big hammer for the Left, because if you didn’t care for them you were racist! Or Capitalist, which is worse somehow. But recently, nada.
\nThe argument can be made that the issue doesn\u2019t have a constituency, or an advocacy group that has enough clout, err, money. I’d say the subject lapsed because anarchists took over some Left Coast city centers and Marxists rioted nearly every time a LEO fired their service weapon. Homeless panhandlers just can’t compete.
\nNow that’s all in our wake, right? Mostly yes, so stand by while the Left resurrects their same old ineffectual band-aids to a mounting problem.<\/p>\n
Poetrooper sends.<\/p>\n
By Andrea Widburg<\/strong><\/p>\n The West Coast\u2019s big cities are awash in a sea of homeless people. This is not an accident. The cities are engaging in policies that are not only homeless magnets, but that kill the people they\u2019re supposed to be helping. Christopher Rufo\u2019s video from the Discovery Institute sets out the facts with compassion and clarity.<\/p>\n Before this year, I don\u2019t believe I\u2019d heard of Christopher Rufo. Within this year, I\u2019ve come to have the highest admiration for him. If the name sounds familiar, it\u2019s because his Twitter feed is a vehicle for exposing the plague of Critical Race Theory that is damaging America just as surely as the Wuhan virus (or, rather, the insane response to the Wuhan virus) has hurt our country.<\/p>\n In addition to his Twitter work and his writing for City Journal, Rufo is the Director of the Discovery Institute\u2019s Wealth & Poverty Review. In this capacity, Rufo has created and narrates a 12-minute video that examines the homelessness crisis in West Coast cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle. Rufo is intimately familiar with the problem, for he\u2019s a Seattle resident.<\/p>\n The video resonated strongly with me. Having worked as a lawyer in San Francisco for two-and-half decades, I spent a lot of time in the downtown area. That meant constantly walking by the homeless. It was apparent that these people were not just down on their luck and stuck in a difficult phase. Instead, they were quite obviously either mentally ill or substance abusers \u2013 or both.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Or all three- addicted, mentally ill and <\/strong>homeless. Read the article, and watch the vid here: American Thinker<\/a>
\nThanks, Poe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"