I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again — I can't stand progressives with every fiber of my being. And every time one of them opens their mouth about Boston’s addiction crisis, they remind me exactly why.

Case in point: I point out addicts shooting up in broad daylight, and some progressive genius tells me it’s my fault for looking at it. “No one’s forcing you to be in the vicinity,” he says, as if the sidewalks, parks, and train stations of Boston are now off-limits to law-abiding taxpayers unless we’re willing to step over needles and unconscious bodies.

This is the progressive mindset in a nutshell: the problem isn’t the chaos, it’s you daring to notice it. If you point it out, you’re the bad guy. If you demand action, you’re “lacking compassion.” And if you suggest jail — the one place drug dealers can’t sell and addicts can’t shoot up — they shriek about “criminalizing poverty.”

Mayor Michelle Wu has perfected this brand of gaslighting. She’ll stand in front of cameras, smile, and talk about “public health approaches” while taxpayers wade through human waste at Mass and Cass. She’ll hand out taxpayer-funded crack pipes and syringes, then act shocked when the streets are littered with them. She’ll ban gas stoves before she’ll ban fentanyl dens.

When I push the obvious solution — jail people who break the law — the progressive chorus kicks in. “It’s too expensive,” they whine. “Rehab is cheaper. We just need compassion.” No. What we need is safety. What we need is order. Broken windows theory works: you punish the smaller crimes, you stop the bigger ones.

Progressives don’t want order. They want chaos wrapped in moral posturing. They’ll guilt-trip you, call you heartless, even bring up Jesus, all to defend a failed approach that’s turned neighborhoods into open-air drug markets. They think “compassion” means letting people waste away on the streets until they die, as long as it makes them feel morally superior.

Wu and her allies don’t see addicts lying face-down on the sidewalk as a policy failure — they see it as proof their “harm reduction” is working. In their twisted logic, the more visible the crisis, the more funding and control they get. It’s political opportunism dressed up as empathy.

Here’s the truth they don’t want to hear: addiction doesn’t give you a license to break the law. And if you do break the law, you go to jail. Period. No amount of hashtags, virtue-signaling, or think pieces changes that.

The people who actually make a city livable — families, workers, small business owners — are sick of being told the solution is to look away. We’re not looking away. We’re done stepping over the wreckage of progressive policies.

Lock them up. Clean it up. Take back Boston.