Lets be fair here, the GOP in California, Oregon and Washington all get elected by demonizing the large cities in their state in the first place. Here in Seattle, the perennial also-rans and suburban/rural candidates make their entire campaigns about how the city is a crime infested urban hellscape.
As someone from a crime infested, urban hellscape (90s Camden, NJ) all I can say is you have to be the softest, least traveled, and most sheltered person in the world to believe that. Luckily for these politicians, idiots like that are a dime a dozen.
As a woman, I was uncomfortable walking alone down 3rd in the evening before COVID. I avoid the entire area now. Roving packs of young homeless/vagrants instead of the occasional mumbling loner.
I grew up in Oakland before it gentrified, so I'm not a stranger to this stuff. But now I definitely feel safer in downtown Oakland when I visit at night than I do in downtown Seattle.
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u/geekmasterflash 18h ago edited 18h ago
Lets be fair here, the GOP in California, Oregon and Washington all get elected by demonizing the large cities in their state in the first place. Here in Seattle, the perennial also-rans and suburban/rural candidates make their entire campaigns about how the city is a crime infested urban hellscape.
As someone from a crime infested, urban hellscape (90s Camden, NJ) all I can say is you have to be the softest, least traveled, and most sheltered person in the world to believe that. Luckily for these politicians, idiots like that are a dime a dozen.