Burning cities and fleeing mayors

September 10, 2020 By Joseph Sorrentino

What happens when one’s politics loses all contact with reality? It might look something like what’s currently unfolding in Democrat-led cities across the country. These urban centers of America, so-called bastions of progressive thought and ideology, have unraveled before our eyes over the last few months and are now engulfed in widespread violence, looting, and arson. Mobs of rioters, or as CNN calls them, “mostly peaceful protestors,” have grown by the day and so have their menacing antics.

And now, the mayors are fleeing.

The same mayors who have defended, and even promoted, acts of anarchy in their cities in the name of social justice and have repeatedly rejected offers of federal assistance to quell violence are now feeling that it’s getting a little too close for comfort. For them, the abstractions of their political revolution have become real, and that reality is apparently a little bit frightening.

In Portland, Oregon, Mayor Ted Wheeler said Tuesday he will move from his $840,000 condominium because of repeated protests there. Wheeler said it would be “best for me and for everyone else’s safety and peace” that he finds a new home, the Oregonian reported. Before taking refuge, Mayor Ted Wheeler openly rejected help from the National Guard, even posting an open letter online expressing his refusal, despite more than three straight months of protests and violence..........To Read More.....

Property rights thrown out of smashed windows as Democratic mayors flee

September 7, 2020 By Blima Miller

In a Twitter discussion back in July, Portland mayor Ted Wheeler (D) was all too eager to jump on the police reform bandwagon with his promise to address all of the

 "systematic inequities that exist in our societies." "And they are massive. And they are prevalent. And they're in every institution that we know." 

He egged the protests on and perpetuated the police brutality myth.

Meanwhile, businesses, some of them black-owned, burned as anarchy was overlooked, and what before was viewed as "peaceful protests" by Wheeler are now seriously violent situations that he must escape from. 

 That explains why he decided last week to hightail it out of his apartment/condo building complex and permanently relocate.Steering clear of the incensed mobs outside his condo, busy lighting fires and breaking windows, was top priority.

President Trump's offer to send federal assistance was met not only with Wheeler's vehemently arrogant refusal, but with his ludicrous  suggestion that the violence is treasured by Trump as his "only ticket to re-election" through the fear it evokes.

Portland's floundering mayor is not the only one of the elites who does not understand the meaning of safety, security, or how to go about enshrining the property rights of the general public.

Other leftist leaders hypocritically chose to shield their own skins when the going got tough, including St. Louis mayor Lyda Krewson (D), who temporarily vacated her home last week, and Chicago mayor Lori Lightfoot (D), who, when faced with threats, ordered police to lock down her block and to stop even peaceful protesters from entering.

To protect one's own property is understandably instinctual.  The problem is that the only way to truly uphold this ideal is to protect everyone else's property rights as well.