On foot to LA Fitness on Sepulveda this morning, I passed Wendy’s near Erwin.
It was about 7:30 AM, and the restaurant wasn’t opened yet. There were no cars in the takeout lane.
But there, in the alley, sitting along the curb, across from the takeout window, was an old woman squatting and peeing. Her urine came out and ran down towards the sidewalk. I just kept walking.
Later on, after the gym, she was asleep on the bus bench.
There are no adequate words to describe the degradation and humiliation that public defecation brings to both the perpetrator and the witness.
Her normal biological action did not rank up there with the tens of thousands who live in group tents, in trash camps, along sidewalks, under bridges, within public parks in the City of Angels on Hiatus.
Just one of many living in the filth and neglect of our city.
But this is reality in LA and in so many other cities like Seattle, Portland and San Francisco that once thought such acts unthinkable. All these cities hate Trump. And all these cities call themselves sanctuaries.
A sanctuary to me is a holy place, a reverent place, a place kept scrupulously clean because people worship there and respect the ideals that make a place a sanctuary from all the evils of life, all the injustices. Inside a sanctuary there is quiet, and calm and peace and you go there to pray and find solace. There are churches, there are mosques, there are synagogues, there are temples, there are parks and courtyards that are sanctuaries all over the world.
What kind of sanctuary is present day Los Angeles?
We don’t have a single public park un-desecrated by trash, shopping baskets, sleeping drunks, tents. Perhaps 30% of the bus stops are makeshift homeless homes, pushing out legitimate bus riders who wait on their feet in the blistering sun.
Bus Bench: Sepulveda at Victory.
We have a hapless and synthetic mayor, Mr. Garbageciti, whose public pronouncements are so ineffective that they carry the weight of a meme.
In every car and in every kitchen across Los Angeles people of every political persuasion are asking: how can this be happening?
As hated as Trump is in this state, with every illegality and breakdown of law and order, ordinary liberal minded and tolerant people in California are moving away from the Democratic Party ideals of understanding, empathy, government regulation or government program, and hankering for a strong man or woman who will take drastic, emergency and militant steps to stop the disease of allowing people to live and do everything publicly they should be doing privately.
The surprise that awaits liberals in 2020 is that anyone should be surprised when Trump is re-elected. .
Here in Van Nuys 
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