[SiVal]

No, it's a demonstration of the mind virus that caused these changes in SF, Portland, Seattle, NYC, etc. If you shift left and things get worse, you should go further left. The problem must be worse than we thought. If things get even worse, you should go even further left. As non-leftists get fewer and things get worse, you blame more and more problems on whatever shrinking "cause" remains. Once you eliminate non-leftists entirely and things are collapsing, it's obviously because of the left---as in, the left who think maybe we've gone far enough to the left. Those people are redefined as right, the cause of all of our problems.

[eertami]

Sure, except I don't live in any of those places, and in fact live in a left wing country that has many of the "freedoms" people in the US like to talk about (legal access to firearms, personal responsibility/freedoms/privacy) yet some of the lowest homicide and crime statistics in the world. "Feeling safe" in a city isn't even part of any debate because everyone feels safe all the time. There aren't any homeless people left unsupported on the streets.

[thepasswordis]

What country is that?