Prince George County, Maryland, is one of the nation's bluest, most overwhelmingly Democrat-controlled jurisdictions. You just don't get much bluer than this county, which may be why there are seemingly nothing but feather merchants and nincompoops running things there.
Most of our urban areas are heavily Democratic, of course. New York now has an unabashed socialist - communist - mayor, and Los Angeles may well be about to elect one just as bad, if not worse. Socialists and outright commies are increasingly running these places as the productive and capable are increasingly bailing for places like Florida and Texas - and the people who can't leave are feeling the brunt of stupid leftist policies.
Which brings me to a housing complex known as the Marylander Condominiums. A recent piece at the Free Beacon has some details.
The sign outside the Marylander Condominiums, a 200-unit complex in Prince George’s County, Md., describes it as a "private community."
But for members of a homeless encampment in the condo’s backyard, the complex also serves as a crackhouse, a bathroom, and the entrance to an open-air drug market, which has become a magnet for organized crime and caused millions in property damage.
Transients break into buildings and smoke crack in the stairwells. Tenants traversing the property must navigate needles, feces, and sleeping bodies as addicts nap half-naked in the hallways and sprawl themselves like welcome mats outside residents’ doors.
This happens because it is allowed to happen. In these blue jurisdictions, the boneheaded policy-makers seem to operate under the delusion that it is somehow "compassionate" to let addicts, vandals, thieves, and gang members to flourish and prey on the locals. It's "compassionate" to let nightly deliveries of drugs into the area. And most insane of all, the local law enforcement promises not to "criminalize the unhoused."
A recent town-hall-style meeting with residents and county officials laid the insanity out for all to see.
Billed as a "listening session" for condo-owners to air their grievances, the town hall featured a lengthy presentation on how the county was handling its "unhoused" residents.
"We have to be compassionate," the county’s deputy chief administrative officer for public safety and homeland security, Melvin Powell, said of the encampment, addressing the hundreds of residents who could soon be displaced because of it.
"We’re not criminalizing the unhoused," police major Thomas Boone added.
In other words, nothing will be done.
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I take that back: One thing will be done. The county is now hammering the property management company that owns the Marylander Condominiums for failing to instantly clean up the messes and repair the damage caused by this Bidenville encampment full of addicts and criminals.
The situation shocked officials at Quasar Real Estate, a local investment firm, when it began managing the Marylander in April 2025. For months, they pleaded with police and county officials to address the open-air drug market that had effectively colonized the condo, which suffered so many break-ins that the company stopped repairing the locks.
But the county—which has the highest Democratic vote-share of any county in the United States, at 86 percent—didn’t clear the camp. Instead, it threatened to sue the condo, which was already tight on cash, for its failure to fix the nearly $5 million in property damage that has been caused by the drug den on its doorstep.
This is insanity, and nothing but. The only proper answer in this case is to clear the camp. The residents of The Marylander Condominiums, most of them lower-income themselves, are the victims here; they are likely people who cannot easily afford to just up and leave, and why should they in any case? Why should these people be driven out of their homes by the county's inaction? Why should they be driven out by addicts, thieves, drug dealers, sex traffickers, and gang members?
Because Prince George County is being "compassionate."
Why should the residents, in this case, the legal residents who are trying to do nothing more than to live their lives in peace, have to suffer feces in stairwells, sleeping addicts passed out in doorways, graffiti, vandalism, threats, assaults, and more?
Because Prince George County doesn't want to "criminalize the unhoused."
Why can't the county enforce laws on the books? Why can't the county enforce basic standards of public sanitation? Why can't the country clear this festering sore of an encampment and keep it cleared? They have the law on their side, they have the tools to do so - wo why aren't they?
Because Prince George County prefers phony compassion over the more difficult task of enforcing the law.
This is why these areas are in such a catastrophic decline: Because, in the name of compassion, local authorities are not only doing nothing, but they are actively enabling the destruction, the crime, the drug use.
Government has only one legitimate, overarching purpose: To protect the liberty and property of the citizens. In this, Prince George County and many other Democrat-controlled, blue jurisdictions have and continue to utterly fail.
