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Darrell Castle talks about what it means to be a liberally progressive city in 2019.
LIBERALLY PROGRESSIVE CITIES
Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, June 28, 2019, and on this Report I will be talking about what it means to be a liberally progressive city here in 2019. I will talk about what the term progressive means in general since I often ask myself, “what does that mean, progressive, and what are we supposedly progressing toward". I wonder, and I ponder, the meaning of the terms that are supposed to describe those who live there.
The idea for this Report actually came from the world of politics and the world of football, but ironically the same liberally progressive city. I read a football story a few days ago about a player who was taken number two in this year’s NFL draft by the San Francisco 49ers. The unusual thing about the player is that he once reportedly said something derogatory about a well known former 49er player and something positive about Donald Trump so the writer speculated that his value might fall due to his willingness to use forbidden speech and possess forbidden thoughts but apparently it did not.
The player ended up with San Francisco anyway and the writer said that city is one of the most liberally progressive cities in the country so he didn’t know how its fans would relate to the player who is apparently not yet woke. That started me thinking about what the term "liberally progressive" really means. I know that San Francisco used to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but that was before it became as "liberally progressive" as it is now, so perhaps its when a city reaches third world status. I spent some weekends there in the 1970’s, and have visited it from time to time since then, but I would not want to visit now.
I choose not to visit San Francisco now because it has liberally progressed from most beautiful city in the country to third world outdoor toilet. It has become a drug-infested cesspool of filth, garbage, human excrement and used needles in a very short time so I guess I do know what the term liberally progressive actually means.
In his recent article, writer Michael Snyder said, “Right now, nearly a quarter of the nation’s homeless population lives in the state of California, and more are arriving with each passing day. When you walk the streets of San Francisco or Los Angeles, you can’t help but notice the open air drug markets, the giant mountains of trash, and the discarded needles and piles of human feces that are seemingly everywhere. If this is what things look like when the U.S. economy is still relatively stable, how bad are things going to get when the economy tanks.”
Leilani Farha, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Adequate Housing, in a recent visit to the city, compared conditions there to the slums of Mumbai, Delhi, Mexico City, Jakarta and Manila and said the crisis in San Francisco is comparable. I was in downtown Los Angeles a short time ago and I tried to avoid the worst of it, but I was walking to dinner at a downtown restaurant with my family just as it was getting dark and I noticed that I had to be very careful not to step on people sleeping on the side walk.
I’m not the only one to notice though, the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has also noticed his state’s liberal progression, although he apparently doesn’t like to hear about it. The Governor is also a former mayor of San Francisco, and while speaking to a local group recently, was quoted as saying, “I can’t read a damn article about this city anymore without “poop maps”. Give me a break.” Well, Governor, you might be tired of hearing about what you and your predecessors have done to San Francisco and Los Angeles, but if it were left up to me you would hear about it every hour of every day. You would see it on television and on the front pages of newspapers, and on the various social media sites you frequent...
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Darrell Castle talks about what it means to be a liberally progressive city in 2019.
LIBERALLY PROGRESSIVE CITIES
Hello, this is Darrell Castle with today’s Castle Report. Today is Friday, June 28, 2019, and on this Report I will be talking about what it means to be a liberally progressive city here in 2019. I will talk about what the term progressive means in general since I often ask myself, “what does that mean, progressive, and what are we supposedly progressing toward". I wonder, and I ponder, the meaning of the terms that are supposed to describe those who live there.
The idea for this Report actually came from the world of politics and the world of football, but ironically the same liberally progressive city. I read a football story a few days ago about a player who was taken number two in this year’s NFL draft by the San Francisco 49ers. The unusual thing about the player is that he once reportedly said something derogatory about a well known former 49er player and something positive about Donald Trump so the writer speculated that his value might fall due to his willingness to use forbidden speech and possess forbidden thoughts but apparently it did not.
The player ended up with San Francisco anyway and the writer said that city is one of the most liberally progressive cities in the country so he didn’t know how its fans would relate to the player who is apparently not yet woke. That started me thinking about what the term "liberally progressive" really means. I know that San Francisco used to be one of the most beautiful cities in the world, but that was before it became as "liberally progressive" as it is now, so perhaps its when a city reaches third world status. I spent some weekends there in the 1970’s, and have visited it from time to time since then, but I would not want to visit now.
I choose not to visit San Francisco now because it has liberally progressed from most beautiful city in the country to third world outdoor toilet. It has become a drug-infested cesspool of filth, garbage, human excrement and used needles in a very short time so I guess I do know what the term liberally progressive actually means.
In his recent article, writer Michael Snyder said, “Right now, nearly a quarter of the nation’s homeless population lives in the state of California, and more are arriving with each passing day. When you walk the streets of San Francisco or Los Angeles, you can’t help but notice the open air drug markets, the giant mountains of trash, and the discarded needles and piles of human feces that are seemingly everywhere. If this is what things look like when the U.S. economy is still relatively stable, how bad are things going to get when the economy tanks.”
Leilani Farha, United Nations Special Rapporteur for Adequate Housing, in a recent visit to the city, compared conditions there to the slums of Mumbai, Delhi, Mexico City, Jakarta and Manila and said the crisis in San Francisco is comparable. I was in downtown Los Angeles a short time ago and I tried to avoid the worst of it, but I was walking to dinner at a downtown restaurant with my family just as it was getting dark and I noticed that I had to be very careful not to step on people sleeping on the side walk.
I’m not the only one to notice though, the Governor of California, Gavin Newsom, has also noticed his state’s liberal progression, although he apparently doesn’t like to hear about it. The Governor is also a former mayor of San Francisco, and while speaking to a local group recently, was quoted as saying, “I can’t read a damn article about this city anymore without “poop maps”. Give me a break.” Well, Governor, you might be tired of hearing about what you and your predecessors have done to San Francisco and Los Angeles, but if it were left up to me you would hear about it every hour of every day. You would see it on television and on the front pages of newspapers, and on the various social media sites you frequent...