As a Virginia resident, this state is a total disaster. The shootings and violent crime in Roanoke, where I live, are skyrocketing under a council that is for the first time entirely controlled by leftists. The average wages here are collapsing as businesses leave, but we are constantly shoveled lines about how the city is "growing".
This is also the first time we have a majority black council, and they have crippled- deliberately- the police department, contributing to the issues we have with crime. They have tried to backtrack on what they have done but they can't get anyone to become cops here. Meanwhile, the neighboring counties have next to no issues.
Last, one of these individuals has been charged with multiple counts of embezzling money from nonprofits that the city council had voted to give to said nonprofits, then remotely wiping data from his iPad that was incriminating. Note that zero- again, ZERO- of his fellow council members have strongly condemned his actions and none have moved to have him suspended from duties or removed from the council. Why not? Because most of them are playing the same game- the gay "pastor" funding his "church" foundation, the mayor his foundation, etc... and they just haven't been caught yet.
But again, these are the things the cities in Virginia allow and encourage. The rot has spread from Northern Virginia and Richmond, with the general assembly targeting for punishment any areas that try not to follow this same path of destruction. There is no political solution outside secession for parts of the state.