Conservative Constance Wrote:
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> > As a public transit employee, I am appalled that
> someone would get drunk and then sit on a coupler
> between two rail transit vehicles while riding a
> moving a train and disgusted at the thought of
> this case going through the courts.
>
> If you were a hard-core liberal, you would have no
> more objection to a person riding on a coupler,
> drunk or otherwise, than you would a person going
> on a shoplifting spree at your neighborhood
> Walgreens. The point being, in the name of
> diversity, equity and inclusion, you're not
> supposed to be judgmental. It's not your business
> to concern yourself with who trespasses or who
> shoplifts if it doesn't directly affect you.
> Those are non-violent crimes, after all. *sarcasm*


Maybe you should spend less time reading commentary which reinforces your narrow-minded beliefs of what liberals are and more time engaging in conversations. Maybe I am not a hard-core liberal (whatever that is), but I am a liberal because I believe in the power of government to accomplish positive ends (or at a minimum do what the private sector will not do which is plan, build, and operate public transportation).

Anyway, you ignore the fact that I am a public transportation employee which certainly informs my views.

I came across this article before reading it on Altamont Press and forwarded it to a colleague who was also astounded by the article.

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>
> > As a liberal Democrat I am revolted by your
> generalization.
>
> There's more truth to it than you'd like to think.

Want generalizations? See the responses of many of the January 6 insurrectionists who had their feelings hurt upon being arrested and properly charged with crimes against Democracy.
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>
> > However, as a liberal Democrat, I will
> grudgingly admit if right-wing Republicans were
> running the country, state of California and the
> City & County of San Francisco, these kinds of
> things would never happen. Right-wing Republican
> politicians would eliminate all federal, state and
> local funding for public transportation resulting
> on no rail transit systems on which incidents
> could occur.
>
> I am revolted by your generalization. First of
> all, it's not true. The City and County of San
> Francisco was, at one time, governed by
> Republicans and there was plenty of public
> transportation.

It's true today. Republican views 50 - 100 years ago are not relevant to this discussion.

I would have not posted this commentary 30 years ago when Paul Weyrich wrote a brochure on why conservatives should support mass transit for the American Public Transit Association and when Republicans such as Bob Packwood, Arlen Specter, and Jacob Javitz supported federal funding for mass transit.

Today's Republican Party has become very anti-urban and with that anti-urban mindset is opposition to sufficient funding for mass transit.