I’m from the Bay Area and we have a similiarly bad homeless problem and it was still incredibly shocking for me, and I was like born and raised here and like am used to how shitty the USA is…
I remember I was Ubering back to my hotel after a concert and it was raining pretty heavily and you just saw homeless people huddled in every single spot imaginable among the closed for the evening downtown businesses and it was just such a dystopian scene I was like what the fuck
The Bay Area is probably worse these days, seeing the Tenderloin in San Francisco would make you faint
Having seen people lying in their own piss and shit among the stunning skyline for blocks and blocks in one of the richest cities in the world makes that Parenti clip so stinging for me. I tear up at the end when he says “THEN SLEEP IN THE DOORWAYS OF THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE”
where is parenti at these days? Why is chomsky getting so much airtime and this king is nowhere to be seen?
Parenti was smart enough to retire and shut the fuck up. Guy went out on top.
To be fair, Chomsky had absolutely torched his reputation with serious leftists long before now, so if he wants to keep his thing going he has no credibility left to lose on that front. :shrug-outta-hecks:
