STOCK MARKET WATCH -- Wednesday, 26 April 2023

[Warpy]

5. Artfully arranged rubble, empties, and syringes?

Usually it's a vacant lot where something burned down years ago and was never properly cleared. Blank walls of adjacent buildings are there and across the alley might be a building people still live in, cracked windows and fire escapes.

It is picturesque because it makes a great backdrop of dismal desperation but devoid of the people who could tell Mr. Candidate why it's dismal and desperate. The slumlord who owns the whole block and contributes handsomely to his campaign won't tell him.

Funny, they never show the vacant lots that were turned into urban gardens. That might give voters the wrong idea, that poor people aren't idle trash, after all. They're poor because they're not paid enough to be anything else, real class mobility ending when the New Deal did. Thanks, Ronnie.