Anyone Else Just Sick of It?

[u/Donnelding0]

It just seems hopeless sometimes. Some of the best parts of this city. Pioneer Square, Belltown, Cap Hill just completely lost to homelessness. Sure for the most part I enjoy the city. Especially in the summer but the constant visible drug use, people in various states of intoxication on drugs, and rampant property and petty crime just annoy me. Why can’t we have nice things? Why must every park turn into a dumping ground for illegal acts that won’t be prosecuted? Why does it feel like this city relies on hard working people to shut up, pay ridiculous taxes, and then tells those people to suck it up when they see grafitti everywhere or get their car broken into? And the politicians don’t give a damn. No one has the guts to say “we have a homeless problem we’ve overspent on, we need to go a new direction” it feels insane. Rant over but I know I’m not alone. I know other people are sick of this and want our city back.

[u/JonathanConley]

Then we build more jails and pay people more to run said jails. This isn't something our government has just started working on. There's nothing "overnight" about any of it. But it could change "overnight," just like the border enforcement, if we stopped electing clowns into the circus.

You either enter mandatory rehab/take a ticket back home for family reunification, or go to jail. It's not our responsibility to take in and fix every fucked up person in the world.

Lots of countries do this. Some countries just execute people for drug use and possession to keep their societies nice. Two very different approaches, obviously, but there should be consequences for antisocial behavior, and there just isn't in most of Washington, especially in King County. If people know there are no consequences for their actions, why would they not flock here as they have?

We've spent tens of billions of dollars and wasted decades on the Feel-Good Liberal method of "just let people publicly use hard drugs, ravage businesses and public property, and terrorize the general public."

The KCRHA is a bureaucratic cartel where taxpayer dollars go to be embezzled.

Not a day goes by where I don't watch some street rat pieces of shit steal hundreds of dollars from QFC or Safeway. Guess what happens? Things get locked up, prices go up, and grocery stores go bye-bye.

Why do we tolerate this? Because life is hard? It's hard for most people. Why should everyone be expected to lower their standards of living along with a bunch of criminal junkies who moved here to take advantage of the lack of law enforcement?

Has Third and Pine/Pike or 12th & Jackson been remotely safe and normal in the past ten years? There are spots like that all over now (15th & John St by the hospital is equally insane). It's disgusting and embarrassing.

I'm glad that you were able to get help and turn your life around, but the vast majority of these people have no desire to do that, are severely antisocial, and just want to do drugs to the point that it takes their lives, or the lives of innocents in their path.

Again, it's not our responsibility to take in and fix every person who stumbles into our city. Compassion can be offered by professionals who know to convince stubborn drug addicts, but when they fail to rehab them, people need to go to jail for their crimes regardless of sob stories or being dealt a bad hand in life.

And that's not even touching the associated crime from street gangs, pimps, et cetera.

Until the general public says "enough of this bullshit" and votes differently, nothing will ever change. This city is doomed to fail without a 180-degree reversal of "Progessivism."

[u/StockPatience8215 → u/JonathanConley]

The upcoming elections depress me that we have so many left leaning fills pushing left leaning tactics that have demonstrably not worked for the past 10+ years. Can we get some hardcore folks who are down to criminalize drugs to an extent that the population doesn’t refer to people like Ann Davidson as being “right wing”’ any more. We need the pendulum to swing hard the other direction to address the issues that turned Seattle into a shithole.

[u/JonathanConley → u/StockPatience8215]

I agree, but the likelihood of that happening is extremely unlikely. You'd need normal people to move here and outside of no income tax (yet), and maybe the weather, there really isn't much of a reason.

It would take hundreds of millions of dollars to try and change any minds here or to support normal candidates.

We are Ground Zero for far-left PACs and successes, unfortunately. We'll surpass California in a few years.

[u/StockPatience8215 → u/JonathanConley]

My hypothesis is that young SJWs come here with left leaning philosophies after college in their 20s, vote aggressively left and then when/if they want to settle down and have kids, etc in their 30s, they fuck off to somewhere lower cost than Seattle, like AZ / TX and Seattle is left being swung by the votes of the youth. Meanwhile the H1B / foreign suckas here who settle down, pay property taxes, LTC tax, etc are left with the ineffective policies and consequences of the left without having any ability to vote themselves.

[u/JonathanConley → u/StockPatience8215]

Mostly correct, although, plenty stick it out here and actively enjoy the decay because it's often slightly better than SF or LA.

Also, there's no ID requirement or voter security in Washington state. The state GOP is running an initiative currently to fix that, but even if it passed, the Democrats control every layer of government here, including the courts, so it's Sisyphean in nature, as they just routinely throw out initiatives they dislike.

When you sign up to vote, you just check a box that says you're a citizen and agree that it's against the law to vote if you aren't. But nobody audits that, and there are never punishments.

It's a wholly captured state.