LA Times Columnist Crawls Out Of Garbage To Tell World He Loves His City Covered In Poop And Blood |
LA Times Columnist Crawls Out Of Garbage To Tell World He Loves His City Covered In Poop And Blood
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Having a good time in Los Angeles is easy. Don’t wear open-toed shoes, don’t make eye contact with the guy sprawled out on the street corner, charge that $17 smoothie to your credit card and take in a deep whiff of smog.
Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano condemned Los Angeles mayoral candidate Spencer Pratt’s “dark vision of the city” in a Tuesday article.
Pratt’s vision seems to be resonating just fine. If Pratt sounds harsh, it is because he refuses to conceal harsh realities with mild language.
It is Arellano’s perspective that demands scrutiny. Arellano takes issue with Pratt’s “doomsday message.”
“Instead of enlisting surrogates to push an uplifting vision for L.A.’s future, Pratt elevates those who speak of the city as a West Coast Chernobyl.” (RELATED: Even CNN Got Karen Bass To Squirm With Peppering Of Questions About Homelessness)
How could an honest observer of Los Angeles not be horrified by the fentanyl-addicted “zombies” crouched under Los Angeles freeways, trapped in personal hells?
“Pratt’s loudest fans fundamentally loathe modern-day L.A., and that should........