What is up with America?

Man people are spot on regarding San Francisco, I was there myself eight years ago and the homelessness was off the scale, I'll never forget the moment our shuttle bus dropped us off outside our hotel, the amount of homeless people outside it was crazy and I actually thought something was wrong, these were people who were clearly either mentally unwell or off their heads on drugs, fellas running around acting crazy talking to themselves shouting and roaring and one guy was running around with a bed sheet around him acting like a ghost.

Next day when we went touring around they were everywhere, people lifeless sleeping on the sides of the road, outside shops, in doorways...we also went into a church and they were tons in there sleeping, just sleeping on the benches, also seeing people rifle through dust bins looking for food was the one of the saddest things I've ever seen, we were going in for dinner one night and outside the bar was a guy rooting through the bin eating/collecting what he could find, it was horrible.

The american suburban dream is/was a racist fuelled pyramid scheme that is turning middle america into a post industrial wasteland. The malls are closing, and the car centric infrastructure is crumbling. We should learn the lesson that urban planning if not done right will result in societal collapse, but the FFG seed of corruption may be too deep seated.

Feels like we've really fallen back a century, with Charlie Kirk and others suggesting government should be married to church.

And in Georgia, Republican candidates have been referring to these once privately commissioned and sited Georgia Guidestones as 'satanic' so someone bombed them.

I know you can take care of yourself but have an auld wander down The Tenderloin or Mission any time during the day or night or try Oakland at night to soak in the atmosphere. 😁

I linked to it.

But where do you find it and why on earth are you reading it and then sharing this rubbish?

I stop on the street for 3 minutes, most of the time some one comes up to me, have you got a euro, after 8pm, young people ask me where can I buy drugs. I.m over 45 years of age

I have no idea where you can buy anything apart from Tesco or aldi or amazon com

The problem is many states cut back on welfare and homeless services ,, there's places with 1000 of tents in the street.old People 65 years old can be seen working in Walmart

Some city's in USA are so expensive ordinary working people live in cars trailers

Many people in America work 2 jobs just to pay the bills

If you don't have a college degree you are probably working for 12 dollars an hour

But I read theres going to be a shortage of teachers in dublin, young teachers can't afford to rent a flat

Violent Crime in New York other city's seem to be getting worse

Every country has a few bad Politicans nó country is perfect.

Some days I'm asked 5 times have you got a euro I don't even bother replying I just move on

It's strange red states are pushing anti abortion laws meanwhile they cut back on services that might help young people single mothers family's. Basic welfare services

People with guns will have more rights than a single woman that might be pregnant

The USA was the future once.

Unfortunately ignorance renews all the time.

How did your trip go? Has it gotten any worse since you were last there?

When you hear the US fundies at full tilt they sound like they never really spiritually evolved from the thinking of their immigrant ancestors, that the US was goods gift to the righteous etc...., not dissimilar to the manifest destiny common in many European empires before WWI.