It is heartbreaking to see this extraordinarily talented man in such straits--so thin, starvation thin, no home, no decent clothes. This should be Bernie Sanders' iconic image--this music, this man. What has America come to? What have we let the uber-rich do to us?
I remember when Reagan evicted the mentally ill from state hospitals and dumped them onto the streets, way back when that fascist America-wrecker was governor of California. I had NEVER SEEN homeless people in California before that, though I was from a poor, working-class family. There likely were a few that I never saw, but nothing like what Reagan did. And now it is an epidemic.
I know that there are many homeless people who are less attractive, whose talents were never developed, who never had even that chance, who can't smile any more, who are treated as blights on our urban landscapes, and veterans of our wretched wars who never recovered from being used as "cannon fodder," and whole families on the streets. This is a symptom of the rot at the 'top' of our society and we need to pull together to address and solve both problems--the suffering of the homeless, the abandoned, the forgotten; and removal from power of leaders who caused this, or who tolerate it.
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