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I would expect my world view to be extremely myopic if I worked in the prison system as well.
He said he's tired of stuff, I'm tired of the same stuff he's tired of too... but from a different perspective. Tired of listening to doom and gloomers who believe the entire USA is falling apart. I've been all over the USA since things opened up and some areas are worse than before for a variety of reasons but all this doom and gloom and talk of cesspools in every "liberal" city (how does one arrive at that conclusion anyway? Aren't polls like 55/45 at the very worse in any given city?) is laughable.
Look beyond the prisons and police interactions, there's so much vibrancy and so many great initiatives going on. Then again, a lot of what I was involved with was charitable or benefit type campaigns so I guess I was surrounded by people with good ideas who ARE making a difference, not dealing with people who stabby stabby others. One of those cities was *gasp* CHICAGO. Oh my god... I can't believe I survived my trip there given how you talk about it!! I even went and stood in line outside a jazz club in a seedy area and lived to write this message. Amazing.
It's funny to say we can't comment on the USA because we don't live there, but then it's okay to paint every city in the USA as a cesspool if it's tinted blue from an electoral perspective without ever having visited most of them. No hypocrisy there at all.
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