Altgeld Gardens, Haiti, Africa....honestly, what is the difference? All just a complete mess......
I think a lot of this comes from a victim mentality, and that’s what community organizers do, they foster that us against them attitude that makes common purpose and effort almost impossible.
I remember a disagreement I had with my daughter’s American History teacher in high school. She was a PhD from Berkeley and taught the “America is a festering pile of crap” doctrine to these kids. I pulled her out after she refused to consider that there were virtues here which needed to be addressed in order to let these kids see that the nation was worth working to improve.