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Our small town had a local pedophile. He never touched me or my friends, but he got away with a lot. (Though poor, most of my friends and I had intact families.) In a small town, a little money can be thrown around in a lot of ways.
The town pedophile would donate money for parks and even to schools. The he would "volunteer" to watch children in the locker room. He'd hand them towels. Everyone in a position of power knew he was a pedophile, and no one every did anything. This was pre-Internet.
When you grow up poor, you FEEL the elite's mistakes before anyone. My dad aced all of the tests for the Illinois State Police. He was denied a job due to racial discrimination. Our lives would have been fundamentally different if he had got this job.https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1997-10-02-9710020230-story.html …
The worst part about growing up poor is other poor people. You leave your bike out, it might get stolen. Your windows might be broken. You might get jumped. There are a thousand annoyances like this, large and small.
When you grow up poor, you don't glamorize it. These new socialists, mostly spoiled white kids, claim to feel solidarity or some shit. It sucks. But poor people aren't bad. The problem is being poor damages your entire body and mind. Sapolsky is right:https://news.stanford.edu/news/2007/march7/sapolskysr-030707.html …
When you're poor, you're stressed. On edge. Life sets you off. Physiological level stuff. Multiply that across a neighborhood and you have a lot of street fights, domestic violence, drinking, smoking. That was when I grew up. Then people turned to meth and now opiods.
The thing about being poor....Everyone gets is wrong. My dad was high IQ, but there weren’t any jobs. Start a business! Selling to whom? Everyone was broke. These are complicated issues, I have an education, I lived in poverty. And the answers? I legit don’t know.
I do know that my life would have been different without Christianity. Poor people have the same problems, but poor Christians avoided the vices like drinking and smoking, and philandering. They had hope. Probably that’s why I’m such a pro-Christian...who is not a believer.
Marx called religion the opiate of the masses (though there is more context to what he meant). Poor people lost religion and found....opioids. Religion offered hope of another life. We can empirically see what post-Christian America looks like. A stadium of overdoes a year.
Factories closed. Towns fell. You know what saved a lot of small towns? Prisons. Small towns began competing to become the home of a new prison. (One reason decriminalization arguments don’t land is because crimes are prisons are jobs.)
Whenever you talk about poverty, people jump in to remind you it’s worse elsewhere. Why? Because poverty isn’t something we’re supposed to notice in America. It’s the forbidden topic.
I would rather have schools independently funded instead of depending on pedophiles for donations
I have a friend that grew up in a trailer park. They had a local trailer park pedophile, everyone knew but did nothing. It was just an accepted part of life when you’re poor.
Disgraceful what adults did for money over the children's well-being. Screwed up priorities.
Most people like to point the finger at all the elites but when you start looking around, enablers are everywhere and supposedly decent people turn a blind eye because that's the easy path
My hometown had a pedo like that. he would touch young boys & pay off their poor families & cops. He was a pillar of the community & local business owner. State police, who are not corrupt like the local cops, opened an investigation into this pedo, then he killed himself
Was his name Roy Moore?
Or coach kids at a Roman Catholic Football Club in Scotland? Except there were FIVE Paedophiles. It was covered up by the club, police, media and government from 1960s, until court action last month. One rapist got 2 years in jail. Two years. Media reporting basics only!
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