Posted on 09/25/2022 7:45:24 PM PDT by bitt
With crime on the rise, Republicans are hammering their opponents as Democrats fear "defund the police" policies will turn off voters.
Democrats' virtual 180 on the issue of crime — a journey from supporting the "defund the police" movement to espousing tougher law enforcement — has been accentuated by a striking pattern in recent months: prominent liberals being mugged, sometimes quite literally, by the harsh reality of rising crime as victims themselves.
The latest liberal to embody this shift is Bill Walton, the 69-year-old basketball legend-turned-garrulous broadcaster, who has a history of stirring controversy and advocating a range of progressive causes over the years.
More recently, he backed income and business tax hikes to fund homeless services and supported Black Lives Matter rioters condemning police brutality following George Floyd's death in 2020.
Over the last several weeks, however, Walton has adopted a strikingly different tone on law and order while blasting Todd Gloria, the Democrat mayor of his longtime home San Diego — and a man with whom he aligns politically.
The website Voice of San Diego documented several emails that Walton has sent to Gloria demanding more action to get a handle on the city's homeless crisis, including one message in which the NBA hall of famer not only said he was assaulted but also implied it happened before.
"Once again, while peacefully riding my bike early this Sunday morning in Balboa Park, I was threatened, chased, and assaulted by the homeless population, in our park," Walton wrote Aug. 28. "Once again, you've done, and continue to do, nothing."
Four days earlier, Walton wrote, "You speak of the rights of the [homeless], what about our rights, we follow the rules of a functioning society, why are others allowed to disregard those rules. your lack of action is unacceptable,
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there is the old saying, a conservative is a liberal who got mugged
Good. And. Hard.
And it is wrong. Mugged liberals simply apologize to their attackers for not being more docile.
“And it is wrong. Mugged liberals simply apologize to their attackers for not being more docile.”
I visited NYC back in the days before Giuliani cleaned it up. Being a redneck from Nashville I asked a couple of NYPD officers why the vermin weren’t bothering me. They said ‘you’re to big and you look like you’d fight’. And there is the difference.
So, it’s a different story when it happens to YOU.
Typical of leftists.
It goes to show what a sham their virtue signaling is and how deceived they are thinking they can ride out the storm they are creating. Their own monster will not spare them.
As soon as the election’s over democrats will go back to supporting criminals, drug addicts, violent homeless etc etc etc.
Caring for everyday citizens is a stunt.
Hey, if it weren’t for double standards, some people wouldn’t have any standards at all.
Gee, one would think the elite liberals would be telling their gangs of street criminals to ask what political party their victims belong to before they commit their thuggery. They’re dropping the ball on that one.
And a liberal is a person too broad minded to take their own side in an argument.
Yeah black lives matter, says the white guy,
but...
(Via The Comeback)
Tweet
“Sadly & with a broken heart, Bill Walton sucks. He doesn’t like seeing homelessness but has 0 empathy for people experiencing it. This tweet says: “I don’t care if people are suffering and living in squalor, I just don’t want to see it”
— YetAnotherDuckFan (@duck_yet) September 19, 2022”
Poor Walton’s net worth is $20M but hey,
keep the homeless away from me, dude...
Liberal’s grip on reality is tenuous at best.
When you try to warn them of the consequences of their decisions and actions, instead of considering you are right, they knee jerk respond by calling you a racist or (fill in the blank)phobe.
They simply cannot deal with being told they are wrong or might be wrong. They think everyone is like them and thinks like them and cannot comprehend a different worldview.
the LEFT is complaining?
this is simply DIY redistribution of wealth
doncha know
they should be all for it
They should ship their criminals to Martha’s Vineyard. They are very inclusive.
Because the Left has already got your vote. They need the homeless to flourish to keep their political operatives on the city payroll as homeless advocates.
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