Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "Chicago's Radical Solution to End Homelessness" video.

No one is going to get the crazies to take their meds without returning to the expensive carceral mental institutions some of whose methods may well be illegal. Drunks don't want to get better and neither do junkies. The only homeless people who can be helped are the ones with self-discipline. The US is not Finland. Our poor people are illiterate, frequently savage and are mostly at the end of a life their own adult choices ruined. Can More Perfect Union address that part or is only an oppression narrative acceptable? As for housing the poor do not make good or safe company which is why anyone with a choice moves far away from them. There are indeed SOME victims but many more did it to themselves. I've met my share. I used to think like a stereotypical progressive then I moved around the US and got a more detailed, up close look at reality. A major part of the problem is the poor wanting to live in expensive cities in the first place. Aid should require relocation to affordable areas, not maintain people where they should not want to live. If they were smart and wise and mentally competent they would not be poor so their desires should be disregarded by their charitable benefactors. No possible good can result from keeping financially dependent people where they will never be able to advance. Cities are bad and living in cities is bad (unless you are rich) so wanting to live in cities is wrong, period full stop. House the hopeless elsewhere so they are not concentrated in housing which (because they live there) goes the way of failed public housing projects. As long as poor people are in cities they will remain poor. Put them where they fit in.
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