One of the main issues is our system of government. It is set up in a way that even one veto-point allows it to default to lawlessness. In many urban areas you have that veto point in the form of a progressive Board of Supervisors/local government, progressive District Attorney or very commonly, progressive judges. Just one progressive in the chain of command and it results in everything being progressive and no consequences for disorder.

Remind me again - when is the last time progressives shut down the federal government? Conservatives threaten to do so every year and have succeeded many times in the last 15 years.

The federal government has very little to do with the quality of the day to day life of middle class people. Police, education, etc., are all state and local issues. If you get beat up by criminals in front of your kids, that’s the fault of the local government to enforce basic order in society: https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/shivanthi-sathanandan-...

Your reply is a complete and utter non-sequitur. Conservatives are not why homeless drug addicts are given free reign to camp out and harass every day, hard working tax payers in San Francisco. That's entirely due to a single veto point (a progressive judge who doesn't even live in the city), despite there finally being some local government push against such activities.

So strange. Are you in the US? Probably not.

Then you would know the federal government has zero to do with things like public restrooms. It is like local govts which are almost all progressive in high density cities where restrooms are an issue.