Commentary: American Cities Are Reverting To Primitive, Self-Destructive Behavior

American cities on the democrats’ watch are drifting away from civilization.

This from americanthinker.com.

The most obvious problem is the rise in crime, everything from murders to mass retail theft. Just open any Chicago or New York newspaper to see the obvious.

But the decline in civilization happens in smaller ways, too, as a story out of San Francisco perfectly illustrates:

Others who knew the neighborhood were equally horrified:

I grew up near San Francisco’s West Portal neighborhood. My first elementary school, before busing took me out of one white, middle-class elementary school within walking distance of my home and sent me to another white, middle-class elementary school that was not, was West Portal Elementary.

According to the San Francisco’s West Portal Neighborhoods publication, this particular school was built in 1926, at around the same time the entire neighborhood was developed.

The book’s back cover nicely describes the neighborhood:

When you’re in West Portal and the adjacent Forest Hill and St. Francis Wood, it’s hard to believe you’re still in San Francisco. These quiet and picturesque neighborhoods are decidedly non-urban, yet they are connected by a streetcar tunnel that leads under Twin Peaks to the bustling downtown area, two miles through the city’s mountainous core. In fact, West Portal is named for the western end of this tunnel, which opened in 1917 to bring residents from the city center to what were new garden suburbs.

Originally West Portal was sandy and scruffy, while Forest Hill and St. Francis Wood were heavily forested. The neighborhoods grew rapidly in the 1920s, and today West Portal is a popular shopping and entertainment district, while St. Francis Wood and Forest Hill boast some of the city’s finest architecture and landscaping.

Imagine at a young age friends safely walking around the busy West Portal shopping street, just down the hill from the school.

Clutching quarters in our hands, we’d buy candy or ice cream. The shopkeepers knew us, and we’d often run into our parents’ friends, who knew us too. It was very much a family neighborhood.

Even as recently as seven or eight years ago many of the streets were gone, but it was still a busy friendly area, without chain stores sullying it. The library, where many kids and young adults spent endless hours was unchanged.

Those memories explain why I found so horrifying a video shot at an intersection just one block east of the northeastern end of West Portland. That intersection was down the hill from my school and my best friend in third and fourth grades lived a block away from there. Again, we’re talking about a neighborhood that spent 90 years being solidly middle class and friendly.

What the video showed was a vast crowd around the intersection watching a car spin donuts, something that is also called a “sideshow.”

Judging by the tweets on the subject, it was some time before the police finally stopped this illegal, dangerous, and just plain ugly activity:

The above depiction of a once-great neighborhood is sad, to say the least. However, this kind of behavior is occurring everywhere throughout America. And there seems to be no end in sight.

Every one of our democrat run cities have been turned into shit holes. “The rise in crime, everything from murders to mass retail theft,” including the disrespect demonstrated toward our police and first responders, minorities (Read: Blacks) demanding “respect,” the insane defunding of police, democrat and Big Money-sponsored riots and destruction, and one party rule have a stranglehold on our entire once-great nation.

Are we beyond a Conservative Takeover?

A limited Martial Law with a conservative assumption of control, outlawing the democrat party cult, closing all media outlets, with Military Tribunals followed by public executions, may be the only way short of civil war to return this nation to civility.

What say you Def-Con News readers?