Re: What Happened to Santa Monica, California?

On Feb 24, 2025 at 12:51:41 PM PST, "Rhino" <no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:

On 2025-02-23 2:09 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
 

 The Santa Monica Pier and the 3rd Street Promenade are (or, more accurately,
 used to be) some of the top tourist attractions in the L.A. area. Well,
after
 years of the government allowing vagrants and criminals to do whatever they
 want, this is what it’s like now. Santa Monica is now rated by the FBI as
the
 most dangerous city in California. Over half the businesses have shuttered
and
 the thriving, crowded tourist attraction that it once was is now a ghost
town.
 And for some reason, the mayor and the city council think this is great.
 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVe9izmQl8o
 

It sounds like your politicians are in a desperate race to the bottom
and succeeding beyond their wildest dreams. I truly don't understand how
people can vote for politicians like that. Someone with a brain needs to
study this phenomenon to try to understand how voters get into this
mentality. Then maybe they can figure out how to snap voters out of it.
 
More likely, LA will just have to hit rock bottom before people finally
realize how toxic and self-destructive their politicians are.

One would think the residents of Santa Monica, who are seeing the value of
their property plummet as they become known as California's ghetto would waste
no time in making it clear to the mayor and city council that things need to
radically change or they'll all be looking for new jobs. But it seems like
wokeness takes precedence over all with these people.