Re: What Happened to Santa Monica, California?

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.
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Rhino