by Michael Austin, The Gateway Pundit:
Too often, political discussions occur only in the abstract. Politicians and political pundits will argue over ideas and ideologies, leaving many onlookers wondering how any of those ideas apply to them.
Well, one prominent YouTuber — and his over three million subscribers — saw first-hand exactly what soft-on-crime progressive ideology does to a city when it informs that city’s policy prescriptions.
That YouTuber, Peter Santenello, described his videos as “showing you a world that the media fails to capture. No BS polarization or political angle — just pure authentic interactions with the locals.”
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After pointing that “no BS” insight directly at his own hometown of Burlington, Vermont, Santenello discovered first-hand how liberal policies can upend entire communities.
Santenello aptly titled his video “They Ruined My Hometown – Don’t Let This Happen to Yours.”
Early on in the video, Santenello spoke to a local business owner.
The entrepreneur told Santenello that he was accused of hating homeless people simply for wanting some “meaningful consequences for misbehavior.”
Before beefing up security, his store was losing roughly $75,000 to theft every year.
Threats of calling the police no longer seem to dissuade petty thieves, according to him.
Another Burlington citizen Santenello talked to felt that the current approach to the homeless — essentially letting them live however they want — isn’t helping anyone.
“Somebody’s got to help them. What’s going to happen every day you take drugs, every day, every day, every day?” he said. “What’s going to happen at the end? Two things, either you’re going to die, right? Or you’re going to overdose …”
Another citizen recalled witnessing exactly that.
“I’ve had people in my alleyway, right here in Burlington, OD-ing, dying in front of me,” he said. “Are we trying to scare people out of Burlington …?”
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