At COTTonLINE we don’t often raise the topic of homelessness, because we are fortunate to live far from where it mostly occurs - in cities. Unlike urban folk, we don’t live with the squalor and hassle day in and day out.
Writing at City Journal, Heather Mac Donald gets quite specific about who is homeless, who makes a living off of ‘helping’ them, and what false ‘facts’ our society has to believe to let it persist. If the issue is relevant to you, her column debunks current programs, clarifies where we are, and condemns it.
Preserving public safety, keeping streets clean and passable, building and maintaining transportation infrastructure, safeguarding property—those functions are embarrassingly bourgeois and repressive in the eyes of every nonconservative politician and bureaucrat. Today, progressive governance prioritizes the antisocial, the deviant, and the alienated over the law-abiding majority, which is increasingly cast in the role of a revenue source rather than a constituency to be served.
As long as the “woke” control city governments and persist in protecting the right to public insanity and addiction, your only practical option is to avoid cities as much as possible.
I did learn one useful acronym from Mac Donald’s column, it is MICAs, a label for Mentally Ill, Chemical Abusers. Most of the homeless are exactly that and should be receiving involuntary inpatient treatment and housing, out of the public eye.
