It’s happening all over America. Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and now, embarrassingly to the whole country, Washington, D.C. has become another Democrat-run city that is descending into oblivion. The natural response to this is that people are leaving.
One of those who recently left, energy lobbyist Dan Turner, told Human Events why he moved out of D.C. He resides in Virginia now and his story is indicative of the hundreds of thousands of urban dwellers across the nation who are fleeing the anarchy and crime of America’s concrete jungles.
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Says Turner, “During the last night in my condo in DC, I had to walk my dog an extra lap around the block because a crazy person was outside screaming obscenities. I wasn’t afraid. I just didn’t feel like getting into it with him or having to listen to his story—his ‘Let me just tell you something,’ attempt to get money from me. It was 1 A.M., and I was tired from a night out—but more so, just tired in general. Tired of it all… Now, we have riots, vandalism, and looting. ‘Protesters’ set fire to an historic church and tear down statues. The protests, they say, must disrupt the status quo—and egging them on are media personalities like CNN’s Chris Cuomo, who said live, on the air, ‘please show me where it says protests are supposed to be polite and peaceful?’”
Dear God, Cuomo, you idiot. From the First Amendment, “…or the right of the people PEACEABLY to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances [emphasis mine].”
Turner goes on, “The St. Regis Hotel is now girded with plywood barricades that have been spray painted with curse words. Outside, people routinely set fires and have fights with the police… The pact we made to live here has broken. What am I paying for? A defunded police force? More murder? More violence? Do the property taxes I’ve faithfully paid for years not protect the CVS I can see from my bedroom—a building which recently had every window smashed and was looted because of ‘justice’?”
After all of it, Turner finally woke up: “Why do I accept that it’s dangerous to ride public transportation after hours? Why do I accept that if I go to the ATM on Barrack’s Row, I will have a homeless guy pounding on the door waiting for me to come out? Why do I tolerate my car windows smashed, again and again, only to have both cops and friends say, ‘well, you must have left something on the seat’—as if it’s acceptable to commit a crime if the reward is valuable? Why do I tolerate streets full of urine and stinking of marijuana? Why do I put up with having to stick my fingers into my dog’s throat to unchoke chicken bones someone discarded on the sidewalk? Why do I have to wait until an hour after the local school is dismissed to avoid problems with teen gangs? And take note: I have yet to even talk about the big crime events like murder or rape.” When you bring those stats into the picture, D.C. resembles one of Dante’s circles of hell on a bad night.
Turner continued, “A man can only tolerate a homeless guy defecating outside his window for so long. The shuttered restaurants, the burnt out stores, the mask-shaming and sloganeering calls for ‘diversity’ or ‘justice’ are all just exhausting, not to mention intellectually vapid and morally bankrupt. I’m going a step further: not only will I not be conscripted into your cause, but I will no longer even financially support it with the one thing I control—my wallet.”
There are a lot of decent people these days expressing their frustration and anger over the state of urban America brought on by Democrats. Hopefully many will do so at the ballot box as well. But we may sometimes forget that the most harmed victims of this decay are the very people Democrats claim to care about: the poor and minorities. The betrayal of them is only one of many consistent Democrat political malpractices. Though it is perhaps the worst.
This piece was written by David Kamioner on August 21, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette [7] and is used by permission.
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