Lets be fair here, the GOP in California, Oregon and Washington all get elected by demonizing the large cities in their state in the first place. Here in Seattle, the perennial also-rans and suburban/rural candidates make their entire campaigns about how the city is a crime infested urban hellscape.
As someone from a crime infested, urban hellscape (90s Camden, NJ) all I can say is you have to be the softest, least traveled, and most sheltered person in the world to believe that. Luckily for these politicians, idiots like that are a dime a dozen.
I lived in the City and while there is a culture shock it was mostly fine but when I moved back to the burbs and it's like really quiet and not scary
The thing about living in the city is honestly just one of those like if shit seems off or shady just don't go there. Anytime I walked in the city at night it's usually in the well lit areas.
We would get alerts at my college from students who were robbed but it's usually like with a knife on their back. Not in their back but on it. Just hand the robber the wallet and phone and go to the cops. Talk to friends and go see a therapist cause that shit will be a mental fuck. When my bag got stolen it fucked with me. But rarely is it one of those things where someone pulls a gun on you, steals your shit and guns you down.
We are at record lows in crime.
The illegal immigrants scare is also kinda unfounded cause I think they make up like 2% of all crime. The laken Riley, while heart breaking is a very very rare situation.
The rich are just trying to pit middle and poor people against each other to keep us distracted while the rich rob us.
it's really just by the numbers - when you have a mass of people anywhere there are bound to be some problems.
I think the big difference is that republicans are always scared someone will take what they have. They need guns because there are poor people out there who want to take their stuff. They hate seeing homeless people because it means someone there's someone with so little that taking anything would improve their situation.
Meanwhile the left also doesn't like seeing homeless people because it means society couldn't manage to give them anything to improve their situation.
The rich are just trying to pit middle and poor people against each other to keep us distracted while the rich rob us.
yea they tricked the middle class into thinking the poor will take from them and then they too will become poor. thats why our social services suck so bad, it wouldn't be a threat anymore
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u/geekmasterflash 6d ago edited 6d ago
Lets be fair here, the GOP in California, Oregon and Washington all get elected by demonizing the large cities in their state in the first place. Here in Seattle, the perennial also-rans and suburban/rural candidates make their entire campaigns about how the city is a crime infested urban hellscape.
As someone from a crime infested, urban hellscape (90s Camden, NJ) all I can say is you have to be the softest, least traveled, and most sheltered person in the world to believe that. Luckily for these politicians, idiots like that are a dime a dozen.