D.C.: What a Depressing Place

D.C.: What a Depressing Place

There is so much in the way of beautiful architecture, but even a few blocks from the Capitol, it turns into a vast ghetto of decaying buildings, men drinking out of brown paper bags, and mentally ill homeless people.

Here's the Capitol:


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Here's the front of the Supreme Court building:


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Here's the view of the Capitol from the steps of the Supreme Court building:


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I can see why leftist politics are so big in places like D.C. It would be very, very tempting, if you believed that people were basically good, to assume that there must be some vast conspiracy to oppress poor people and black people. I mean, what's the alternative?

Very, very sad.