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Bootsorourke's avatar

Thank you! Needed that esp “these are mostly not james bond villains.

these are mostly scooby doo villains.”

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SimulationCommander's avatar

I think this is a consequence of governments getting so big that they ignore their core functions in order to focus on the graft. The answer is to strictly limit government to the things they should be doing -- although that's much easier said than done.

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/things-fall-apart-the-centre-cannot

This crumbling of our economic pyramid is exacerbated when government ignores its core function (protecting our rights) and focuses on feel-good terms such as “equity” while allowing criminals to run rampant through a city.

When your residents aren’t safe to shop or work, you become a low-trust society and it’s impossible to build upon your pyramid — in fact your pyramid will contract (down to nothing if you allow it).

This type of stuff is happening up and down the west coast (and in Chicago), but instead of dealing with the serious problems facing Portland, Clown World governments fund Clown World “solutions”.

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