Bill Mahar on Friday

[Sympthsical]

42. As a Bay Arean, I wasn't that shocked

We spend so much money on drugs and homelessness, way more than most metropolitan areas, and we have little to show for it. Empathy is a good trait to have, but there is a point where empathy becomes indulgence, and we passed that at some point.

Since I moved farther from the city and with Covid, I've barely taken public transportation. But even before then, some of the posters you'd see on BART or whatever were some shit. I'd be sitting there thinking, "Ok, I'm as liberal as they come, but I'm not that liberal."

And I agreed with them about homeless encampments. Until somewhat recently, there were parts of Berkeley that looked like a bomb went off. You'd be wondering if you were in an American city or Sarajevo in the mid-90s.

We can't be ok with that state of affairs, but we somehow became inured to it.