We spend a lot of weekends driving in rural PA. With the exception of the Pennsylvania Dutch areas, the place is looking as run-down and threadbare as I've ever seen it, and I clearly recall the conditions Carter years. If anything it is in worse shape now. Long-established family businesses are locked up and gone. Subdivisions full of vacant McMansions and trash are everywhere between Harrisburg and Allentown. Worst of all, the spirit seems to have gone out of people. Everyone seems tired and beaten, and some folks have gotten mean. We actually cut our last day trip short because it was just too depressing and I was tired of dealing with sullen people.
All this is to say, how in the h*ll can these people vote for "Four More Years?"