No, if you read the papers and watch the news, you know the chief Menace to Our Way of Life is a couple of hundred young street people who want to clean car windows for money. Don't think for a moment this is just a metaphor, a harmless bit of hyperbole. Public Enemy No. To generate that hatred, you amplify and distort lingering mistrust or suspicion of your target group. We're talking about people intimidating drivers into forking over change, people whose lives are largely taken up with violence and cheap, dangerous drugs.
Squeegee kids shit in parking lots and in the doorways of downtown apartments.
To understand how we got to this extreme, it's worth looking at how society reacts to a counterculture. These people do not have the courage to face the reality of life. They are trying to escape. So said San Francisco Police Chief Tom Cahill when asked about the hippies thronging to Haight Ashbury during 1967's Summer of Love. To Stay Out Of Town.