I will say this - it isn't quite as bad as it was made out to be, but I still downright oppose the idea that the collective mob can expropriate private property without the sanction of the state.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/876714162
SALVADOR SAHAGUN: Black Lives Matter really saved our business, though. It's just kind of an amazing thing 'cause we were really struggling with the corona recession.
ALLAM: Salvador Sahagun is the manager of a Mexican restaurant on the edge of the CHAZ. He says the business from protesters has been a godsend. Sahagun voted for Trump in 2016 and might do so again in November. Still, he says, the president is way off-base when it comes to what's happening here.
Trump/Chaz voter .
Honestly, I don't see why the modern American left doesn't embrace a more pastoral vision of communal living. Hippies did that throughout the country in the sixties. You work in gardens growing fruits, vegetables, and cannabis together, you take care of one another, drop acid and listen to some groovy psychedelic rock, free love, etc. Go find some rural property in Oregon or something and set it up. I'd encourage that, actually.
Which is all well and good until it's time to pay the bills. Subsistence farming ain't all that bucolic in reality. If it were easy, we'd all be doobieing it. There are communes that made it, but the people there are the exceptions that prove the rule.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=96711&page=1 (2006 story)
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