Originally Posted by
ClydeTim
Elitist? There are new condos built there where people actually pay to live in a nice place that is now being destroyed by these drug addicts. Yes, drug addicts who chose to do drugs rather than contribute to society. Ride by and look at the people. I say very few, very few have mental problems. I've seen maybe 10 mental people out there. The rest are just downright drug addicts.
Nothing elitist about not wanting to be hassled or harmed by a bunch of drug addicts, bullies and local thugs who hang out because they know they can do drugs and get sex
You seem to have absolutely no understanding of what elitist attitudes are..re-read your post. The rich people come in and expect to be able to push the unwanted disenfranchised scum out of their view because they have the money, aka the power, to have what they want, where they want it. Where are these less fortunate humans supposed to go? Your endorsement of the "Not in my back yard" syndrome defines elitism.
As to the degree of mental illness prevalent in these socioeconomic strata, you are even less enlightened. The co-occurrence of substance use disorders and mental illness is the expectation not the exception. And if you don't understand the changes that occur in the brain as a result of the drug use - and yes it was a choice in the beginning - then you don't understand why getting sober is so difficult.
It is an elitist perspective to sit in your comfortable home and complain about how a less fortunate segment of the population interferes with you trying to meet your recreation needs when they are simply trying to meet their most basic human needs.