Rednecks and Bible
Films of homeless camps in California and Washington show masses of people as they progress down a sure path of agonizing and cruel death. Drugs are addicting many of them. Open sale and use of drugs have attracted huge amounts of drug vendors which in turn attract more addicts, which create more homeless and more death.
Police make few arrests for drug use, drug selling, shoplifting, and theft because prosecutors will not prosecute. It is an unregulated and unrestrained explosion ripping apart entire geographic areas. Those hired to manage have not defined the problem. We are watching it happen in real time.
Massive flight by major corporations is snowballing. Those leaving cite that their workers are not safe and laws permitting “legal” shoplifting are giving massive losses. There are no signs for improvement in the future. Families that can are getting out.
The reason areas prosper is because good jobs are available, good shopping is available and people feel safe in their homes, at work and while shopping.
I believe we are witnessing the most profound destruction of our country in its history. What is happening now is what happened in Detroit, Chicago, Baltimore, south Arkansas and Harlem for different reasons. Business and the people left and no one will return.
Large cities and some states are in the process of becoming economic wastelands. Historians in the future will struggle with how so many areas could self-destruct simultaneously. The answer is “group membership social identity,” but that is another story for another day.
Can you imagine being stuck in Seattle or San Francisco with most of your net worth in your home? No one is willing to buy it for a 20-years-ago price. Your employer just left town, local grocery and department stores closed, public school problems, insurance companies raising rates or refusing coverage, only one pharmacy left with an armed guard, and no police available to help your wife or family with street crime.
Our area has escaped this. Thank God for rednecks and the Bible Belt.
FLOYD FENIX Texarkana