Reply #8: This is totally OT, but this post reminded me of something

[Gregorian]

I swear this post has given me the exact same feeling I had when I was growing up in the San Francisco bay area. It's a ratcheting down syndrome. I used to play in open fields with old barns. Then I became old enough to drive. I would go to the beach, and sit. But suddenly a wave of people began to arrive. The fields disappeared to pavement and 7-11's, and houses. And cars clogged the roads. I was devistated. I still have not recovered, nearly forty years later. To watch something so beautiful turn to shit, was infuriating.

I see a similarity in American politics. People have become so complacent, due to the lack of threats to their livelyhood, that they abandoned attention to the country's needs. As a result, vermin like those in the administration now, and in the recent past, have been allowed free reign to do as they please.

I don't think it's over, either. People see, now, but they are so consumed with need, that they don't pay the attention that is required. And as interest rates go up, and inflation increases, we will see even less attention paid to politics.

I watched the Bay Area burn, and now America.