My brother said LA has more crime

[pathrunner]

Originally Posted by moguldreamer

Can you please link elitism to crime as used in this thread? That's the place I'm not following.

I'm not sure what you're not understanding. You do realize that Elites have power, money and control of the narrative? They control the statutes, codes and coffers that would fix things. Especially, Elites (who are politicians, bureaucrats and lobbyists) do not really care about improving things. They don't have to live like the "little people" do therefore there is no will - economical, political or otherwise - to improve things. California is a prime example but really it's in every corner of America except the "Beverly Hillses" and the "Pacific Heightses" of the country.

Just today I got something in my email box from Gavin Newsom. He wants me to support the latest gun control thing. No. Clean up California. Period. Gun control is their way of sidestepping the huge issue of poverty, homelessness, crime and filth in the streets. I lived in San Francisco for many years before it went to hell. And by the way, I'm a cradle liberal becoming more and more fed up with people like Gavin Newsom. However, I'm just as fed up with conservatives. I'm fed up with all of them because there is no will anywhere to fix things - including crime.

I trust that answers your question.

[skyway31]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

Or just anyone who disagrees with your perspective.



Do you mean from Bill of Health, the blog of the Petrie-Flom Center at Harvard Law School?

Jonathan Howard is a neurologist at New York University and a veteran debunker of the pseudoscience contaminating efforts to fight the pandemic.

And Michael Hilzik is a consumer advocate columnist who happens to write for the L.A. Times. I guess anyone who stands up for consumers falls into your "leftist propoganda" belief.

https://twitter.com/hiltzikm

Surely you’re aware we have epidemiologists and MPHs from places like John’s Hopkins, Harvard, Stanford etc who argued against the likes of Howard (some of whom are mentioned in his book)? The difference is not in qualifications, but in which side of the fence they fall. Your guy is “on the right side of history”, and so his credentials are not to be argued with. The list of guys who disagree with him are deemed, by elitists, to be on the “incorrect side of history”, so their credentials are summarily discredited.

Hilzik is quite obviously a leftist propagandist. You don’t have yo stick to the subject of Covid to observe that much about him.

[skyway31]

I just revisited Hiltzik’s Twitter. Good lord. Dude is about like Mehdi Hasan. Flaming leftist. Obviously so. So much so that I can’t imagine anyone arguing with a straight face that he’s anything other than a leftist propagandist.

[English Breakfast]

Originally Posted by dustin183

Just talked to my brother. He has lived in LA since about 2000... so about 23 years.

He said there was a lot of crime these days there.

I said "even compared to a year ago?"
He said yes.

What do you think - have you noticed an increase in crime?

I lived in LA for about 8 years. Left in 2016.

The city will always have losers. Places like Arcadia, Pasadena, are money. Best places to live.

[moguldreamer]

Originally Posted by pathrunner

I'm not sure what you're not understanding.

You describe a demographic (sort of).

Yet you haven't used any verbs. What verbs are you referring to?

[pathrunner]

Now you've lost me.