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Originally Posted by lillady85
Feel better? Just because our Gov is corrupt doesn't mean we as a people are corrupt. I know I certainly wasn't making fun of the issues in Detroit though I could. How does it feel? Pretty lousy, because now everyone assumes that we're all corrupt when we aren't.
ETA: AGDee, yes on Topinka! I voted for her (even though I am a Dem). I didn't agree with everything she had to say but even then it was obvious Blago would amount to no good.
As for generalizations, of course there are going to be those. I only mentioned Podunk, Iowa because I lived there for enough time to comment on it. I should have elaborated better that people always make generalizations on big cities. Even if they are unfairly deserved. What is annoying is when someone who has never lived (or even visited) cities like Detroit, Pittsburgh, Boston, etc, decides to make a comment to a citizen of that city that their hometown is "dangerous" just because it's bigger. |
I seriously have no idea what you're really railing against here, and I suspect you really don't either.
Chicago politics are basically implicitly corrupt at this point. However, nobody is claiming that the citizens of Chicago suddenly live in Gomorrah, or that Chicago is somehow insanely dangerous as a result of rampant political corruption. Rage, rage against the dying of . . . whatever?