{"id":2360206,"date":"2024-10-27T12:52:01","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T16:52:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-youtuber-furious-to-discover-his-hometown-has-been-destroyed-by-leftist-policies\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T12:54:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T16:54:50","slug":"major-youtuber-furious-to-discover-his-hometown-has-been-destroyed-by-leftist-policies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/major-youtuber-furious-to-discover-his-hometown-has-been-destroyed-by-leftist-policies\/","title":{"rendered":"Major YouTuber Furious to Discover His Hometown Has Been Destroyed by Leftist Policies"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmajor-youtuber-furious-to-discover-his-hometown-has-been-destroyed-by-leftist-policies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2360206&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the impact\u200b of progressive policies on \u200bBurlington, Vermont, as revealed through a YouTube video by Peter \u2062Santenello, \u2063who has over three million subscribers. Santenello emphasizes\u2064 authentic interactions with locals and\u2064 aims to shed light on how \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">political ideologies affect everyday life<\/a>. In his video, \u2064titled &#8220;They Ruined\u200b My Hometown \u2013 Don\u2019t Let This Happen to Yours,&#8221; he highlights the negative\u2064 consequences\u200d of soft-on-crime policies implemented by progressive politicians, as experienced by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/late-night-restaurant-owners-want-to-play-fair-so-far-they-say-newsom-hasnt\/\" title=\"Late-night restaurant owners want to play fair. So far, they say, Newsom hasn&#039;t\">local business owners<\/a>\u200c and \u2062residents.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the video, Santenello interviews local citizens, including a business \u2063owner who\u200b faced significant losses \u2062due to theft and expressed frustration over being labeled as unsympathetic towards the homeless\u200d for demanding \u200caccountability. Others voiced concerns about the lack of \u2063intervention for\u2064 drug addiction, citing personal experiences of\u2062 witnessing overdoses in their community.<\/p>\n<p>Santenello critiques the current liberal policies in Burlington, \u2063pointing out\u2062 that these approaches lead to deteriorating community safety\u200c and a \u200cfailure to genuinely assist those in need. He calls\u200d for deeper examination of the criminal justice\u200b policies and \u200dthe\u200c underlying motivations of policymakers, noting the influence \u200bof figures like George\u2063 Soros and the concept of &#8220;equity&#8221;\u2064 in justice.<\/p>\n<p>the article stresses that policies directly \u2063correlate to reality, and prioritizing progressive ideals over \u200deffective\u200c crime deterrence can spell disaster \u200bfor communities. True justice,\u2063 as per Santenello&#8217;s viewpoint, should focus solely on punishing wrongdoing and\u200b protecting the innocent, devoid of\u2064 socio-political biases.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_2)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Too often, political discussions occur only in the abstract. Politicians and political pundits will argue over ideas and ideologies, leaving many onlookers wondering how any of those ideas apply to them.<\/p>\n<p>Well, one prominent YouTuber &mdash; and his over three million subscribers &mdash; saw first-hand exactly what soft-on-crime progressive ideology does to a city when it informs that city&rsquo;s policy prescriptions.<\/p>\n<p>That YouTuber, Peter Santenello, <a href=\"https:\/\/petersantenello.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">described his videos<\/a> as &ldquo;showing you a world that the media fails to capture. No BS polarization or political angle &mdash; just pure authentic interactions with the locals.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>After pointing that &ldquo;no BS&rdquo; insight directly at his own hometown of Burlington, Vermont, Santenello discovered first-hand how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/billboard-warns-drivers-entering-colorado-migrant-crime-crisis-venezuela-ahead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">liberal policies<\/a> can upend entire communities.<\/p>\n<p>Santenello aptly titled his video &ldquo;They Ruined My Hometown &ndash; Don&rsquo;t Let This Happen to Yours.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-embed\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u2lA_DsvuvY?si=iKYBk430nYt1-6LG\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Early on in the video, Santenello spoke to a local business owner.<\/p>\n<p>The entrepreneur told Santenello that he was accused of hating homeless people simply for wanting some &ldquo;meaningful consequences for misbehavior.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Before beefing up security, his store was losing roughly $75,000 to theft every year.<\/p>\n<p>Threats of calling the police no longer seem to dissuade petty thieves, according to him.<\/p>\n<p>Another Burlington citizen Santenello talked to felt that the current approach to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/chicago-plans-clear-homeless-encampment-ahead-democratic-convention\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">homeless<\/a> &mdash; essentially letting them live however they want &mdash; isn&rsquo;t helping anyone.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Somebody&rsquo;s got to help them. What&rsquo;s going to happen every day you take drugs, every day, every day, every day?&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;What&rsquo;s going to happen at the end? Two things, either you&rsquo;re going to die, right? Or you&rsquo;re going to overdose &hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Another citizen recalled witnessing exactly that.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve had people in my alleyway, right here in Burlington, OD-ing, dying in front of me,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Are we trying to scare people out of Burlington &hellip;?&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Santenello summed up his thoughts on the problems faced by the city at the end of his video.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Policies equal realities. &hellip; What currently exists doesn&rsquo;t work in the long run,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Dig into the policies, dig into the people behind those policies, dig into where the money comes from, and usually you&rsquo;ll find an interesting story.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Digging into the policies behind Burlington&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/sf-man-stabbed-woman-94-gets-5-years-probation-lib-criminal-justice-reform-continues-wrecking-city\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">criminal justice system<\/a> certainly does paint an interesting picture.<\/p>\n<p>Burlington is one of many American cities victim to what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heritage.org\/crime-and-justice\/report\/progressive-prosecutors-sabotage-the-rule-law-raise-crime-rates-and-ignore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Heritage Foundation<\/a> calls the &ldquo;rogue prosecutor movement,&rdquo; a group of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/dangerous-man-america-george-soros-finally-given-perfect-title\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">George Soros-funded district attorneys<\/a> across the country that push soft-on-crime policies.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;[Soros-funded prosecutors] brazenly usurp the constitutional role of the legislative branch by refusing to prosecute entire categories of crime, abuse the role of the county prosecutor, fail to protect victims of crime, and ignore the rising crime rates that flow from their radical policies,&rdquo; Heritage Foundation authors wrote of the movement.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah George, State&rsquo;s Attorney of Chittenden County, Vermont, (the county Burlington is located in) is one such prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>George <a href=\"https:\/\/fairandjustprosecution.org\/meet-the-movement\/sarah-george\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">works with Fair and Just Prosecution<\/a>, a group sponsored by The Tides Center, a progressive group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/grants\/past?filter_keyword=tides+center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">that has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-may-soften-gun-crime-laws-citing-impact-on-people-of-color\/\" title=\"California May Soften Gun Crime Laws, Citing Impact On People Of Color\">received significant funding<\/a><\/a> from Soros&rsquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensocietyfoundations.org\/who-we-are\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Open Society Foundations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fairandjustprosecution.org\/about-fjp\/our-work-and-vision\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fair and Just Prosecution<\/a> is a group of prosecutors committed to promoting &ldquo;equity&rdquo; in prosecution and a &ldquo;more equitable justice system&rdquo; that goes &ldquo;beyond incarceration-driven approaches.&rdquo; Cook County State&rsquo;s Attorney Kim Foxx, perhaps the foremost example of a Soros-funded &ldquo;rogue prosecutor,&rdquo; is also a member.<\/p>\n<p>George described her approach to criminal justice quite succinctly at Harvard Law School during an event featuring Fair and Just Prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I went to law school because I wanted to dismantle the criminal legal system &hellip;&rdquo; she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CYI-bZwTOUc&amp;t=582s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As long as these State Attorneys prioritize progressivism and &ldquo;equity&rdquo; over criminal justice, the communities they oversee will continue to fall into chaos.<\/p>\n<p>There&rsquo;s a reason Lady Justice is depicted as blind.<\/p>\n<p>Justice shouldn&rsquo;t concern itself with how someone looks or what their background is. When it comes to crime and punishment, &ldquo;equity&rdquo; should be the last thing on one&rsquo;s mind.<\/p>\n<p>True <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/court-ruling-justice-thomas-questions-legality-jack-smiths-appointment-special-counsel\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">justice<\/a> should only concern itself with punishing wrongdoers and protecting the innocent, no matter what those involved look like.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey==typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts={ \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs=[ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i=0; i <inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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However, a well-known YouTuber with over three million subscribers, Peter Santenello, experienced the real-world impact of lenient crime policies in his hometown of Burlington, Vermont. He aims to present an unfiltered view of local life in his videos. In one titled &#8220;They Ruined My Hometown \u2013 Don\u2019t Let This Happen to Yours,&#8221; Santenello highlights how liberal policies can disrupt communities. He shares insights from local business owners and residents who express concerns about the current approach to homelessness and crime, emphasizing that it fails to provide meaningful solutions or consequences for misbehavior. Santenello concludes by stressing that existing policies are ineffective long-term and encourages viewers to investigate the motivations behind them. Burlington&#8217;s struggles reflect broader issues linked to what The Heritage Foundation calls the &#8220;rogue prosecutor movement,&#8221; where progressive district attorneys implement soft-on-crime strategies that compromise public safety<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2360207,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Peter-Santenello.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43817,43818,43819,32171,17023],"class_list":["post-2360206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-home-destruction","tag-leftist-policies","tag-local-impact","tag-political-commentary","tag-youtuber"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Peter-Santenello.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2360207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}