The various governance crises around the world have different causes, say the news media. A downtown Portland hotel sold for $101 million less than it bought it for in 2016 due to “post-2020 pandemic impacts, slow tourism recovery, and high downtown office vacancies,” say reporters. French students are protesting severe teacher shortages, large class sizes, and neglected and dilapidated buildings, say journalists, while German students are rioting and looting in Frankfurt to protest living costs and military conscription, they say. And South Africa’s water and sewage infrastructure is collapsing due to a rising population, crime, and corruption, say the media.
But left-wing policies and ideology are the underlying cause of each of those problems. The reason for Portland’s slow recovery and office vacancies compared to other cities is that the city and state’s soft-on-crime policies have made downtown Portland dangerous and unpleasant. Radical Left groups are behind the French and German riots. And the policies and ideology of the left-wing African National Congress (ANC) have undermined meritocracy and legitimized corruption in South Africa.
