Trauma bonding
We talking about murica, but do you even have the patience to live in a big city anymore?
Fair point. I certainly don’t. And that’s in large part due to nonsense liberal policies on this, that, and the other. Crime, immigration, drugs, tent cities, you name it.
Part of it is also the insanity of Reagan era GOP/Mulroney era Conservative policies on mental health facilities that shut down all the mental hospitals/asylums without anything to replace them. A lot of the real crazies on the street would be in those facilities today if they still existed. Of course, the irony is that Reagan had the backing of liberal advocacy groups on the issue who wanted those facilities shut down over cases of abuse of patients, etc.
So you have GOP shutting down mental health facilities from the 60s (Reagan in Cali) through the 80s, and you add 30+ years since then of Democrat wishy-washy nonsense policies on top of that and you arrive where we are today with most downtown cores of major cities pretty much unliveable.