POSOBIEC: The country you grew up in no longer exists, CRIME DOES

by: C.G. Jones, HUMAN EVENTS

In Wednesday’s episode of Human Events Daily, host Jack Posobiec spoke about the differences between the US he grew up in, and Poland, where his family is originally from. The podcast host suggested that the America many people grew up in is virtually unrecognizable now, noting that much of this has to do with the rise of crime and lack of attention to the infrastructure that is integral to the function of the country.

Posobiec has been on a two-week visit to Europe, and one of his recent adventures has been to a Polish village that his family lived in before immigrating to the US. He noted that while there are big cities and many people in Poland, there is no violent crime. And he suggests that the reason for this is that Poland takes crime seriously, something that the US is not doing.

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The podcast host started: “It’s really amazing when you see the stories like we had yesterday out of Poland, where Poland is on the rise to become wealthier than Britain by 2030, when you look at the things that matter to you, I suppose at different points in your life than others, and for me right now, as a father, husband, [with] two little boys, one of the main things that I constantly am thinking about is what is the world like for my children? Not what the world is like for me, and that’s something that changes when you have kids.”

He continued: “Look, I’ve always been interested and concerned about issues of public safety, of crime, all these things. I come from the Philadelphia area, and I’ve talked before about how essentially we lost our hometown, just outside of Philly, because the rise of crime.

He went on to say that the tight-knit community that he grew up in has been “cast to the winds” because of the massive rise of crime in the area. He contrasted this with the small Polish village that his great grandparents came to the US from, and people have “nice houses,” “nice cars,” and “it’s so safe.” He noted that there is very little crime, save for the occasional petty theft.

Conversely, he said that the US has a large problem with crime, suggesting that it is difficult to say if the US is a better place to raise children than Poland.

He continued: “You look at what’s out there in the US right now, you can’t ride the subway. You can barely walk down the street, and you can’t go to cities at all. God forbid you go into one of the cities. And we went into Polish cities. They’re great. They’re wonderful. They’re clean. They’re safe. People are nice to you. You could walk around at night, you can walk around in a day. There’s no issues, because Poland takes all of that seriously.”

“And so when I look at it, I think of the decline of the United States in terms of the visible decline that we see. We don’t take care of our infrastructure. Our roads are crumbling, our bridges are crumbling, our airports are becoming third-world. Our subways are a joke. Our rail system doesn’t exist. We talk about infrastructure, we don’t actually do anything about it. There’s a lot of reasons for that, by the way, but when you look, in terms of the insanity they’re pushing on kids in schools, the insanity that they’re subjecting families to when it comes to public security, really makes you ask the question. Is America still the leader in the world?”

He concluded: “I just have to say, the country you grew up in no longer exists.”