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There seem to be more people out of power interested in blaming powerless suffering populations for their own suffering than recognizing the atrocity and wanting to help.
You show 100 truly random Americans footage of our society's sins in the form of our innumerable tent cities, and most of them will chastise those victims of our society for being "lazy" or "drug addicts," as if addiction wasn't a disease often triggered from desparation, or that failing to be a productive little capitalist cog in the profit machine means you deserve to die prematurely of exposure to the elements and ~~police~~ capital defense force brutality.
The answer most Americans have to such things is to complain enough to have those human beings forcibly removed from the sidewalks and underpasses they subsist in to find another, because that average American feels too good to look at them and is concerned about how those human being's continued existence is diminishing their property values.
Woah dude, calm down. Excuse me for wanting to believe people are mostly good.
People are mostly good. Propaganda designed to enforce certain beliefs makes people think those less fortunate are lazy, entitled, and less deserving. It's also human nature to discount any luck in our success stories and attribute them to only/mostly hard work.
I am beginning to doubt this assertion too
I think that's one of the biggest issues, people believing what they want to believe, despite all of us being subject to the same reality.
That said, believe what you like. Sorry for bringing rain to the parade.