Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Businesses Declare San Francisco DEAD" video.

I remember when cities wouldn't allow vagrants to set up camps on sidewalks.
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@lightningwight4154 Social justice isn't the problem. Its definition and the means employed to achieve said definition are the problem. Be careful not to become them in your fight to extirpate them. Many ideas that are good emanate from "progressives." Permaculture. Sustainability. Local control. Locally-grown food. Where they go wrong is when they fail to get EVERYone to live just like they (delusionally pretend they) do, they feel justified in the use of any and every force they can muster. They don't want The Machine to go away. They want it to do their bidding. As to your "hierarchy" comment, that sounds pretty top-down. Hierarchies arise inevitably, because they're necessary to get anything done, but they are also fraught with peril. The rot always starts at the head, at the TOP of the hierarchy, and BECAUSE it's a hierarchy, that rot quickly sets in clear down to the roots. This is where both progressives and hierarchy lovers go wrong. "We could do more if we had more money/power/authority." Somebody always has to MAKE these hierarchies stop when they're on that path, because they won't stop themselves. Life is good and we all want more of it. Hierarchies take on a life of their own and THEY always want more. There isn't a single bureaucrat in any organization who thinks his offices receive too much funding or have too much authority.
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I visited in the late '70s, and even then it was a short walk to squalor, addicts, and violence. In '79, I remember talking to the Hilton door man and marveling at the 6-foot Amazon walking by. "That ain't no woman," he said.
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@GiganticWeen When you look at the progressive platform and read between the lines, it all adds up to serfdom. "We will provide your needs. You will obey us without question." That's dragging us back to medieval times, and we all know what the lords and ladies meant by "We'll take care of you." It meant "We will live in castles and you will own nothing and be happy. Or else. But we prefer if you think all this was YOUR idea."
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It's politics. Who defines "better?"
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@stevebare5271 Billions being spent, and nobody but the people in the bureaucracy are benefiting. Amazing how problems always get bigger when you trust government to solve them. From the EPA to the FDA, they all end up working for the people who cause the problems, and get richer by pretending to solve the problems.
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@lucast3006 They all say they won't, and then they vote party-line Democrat, every time.
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They've ended the War on Drugs, but give no thought to managing The Peace.
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That's just it. We CAN'T keep bailing them out. They need to run their social(ist) experiments on their own dime. They could've kept spending other people's money for years, but when Trump and a Republican Congress set a $10,000 limit on the federal deduction for state and local taxes, the rich started fleeing blue cities and blue states, who had it really good for a long time, spending anything they wanted on fripperies and social programs, because the rich people who paid all the state and local taxes could write them off on their federal taxes. Now these blue states and cities are paying the ACTUAL cost of their programs, and budgets are tight. You know the first thing they cut? Police and then fire. Just like our federal government, they spend money on everything except the most basic things for which their offices originally existed.
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