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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one on the Acela corridor cares about the opioid crisis. It’s kind of like the polio epidemic in Pakistan.  Sad, yes, but a world away.[/quote]

This is untrue. There are people who live in DC who know people who died in this crisis. People care but it is a huge complex problem that needs real action but Americans care more about illegal immigration. This is what the GOP decided to fixate on. (Notice I didn’t say fix because they have made it worse.)[/quote]

We're in a weird state where it's clear to most people that there is some sort of drug crisis going on and our cities are increasingly filled with homeless people, who are increasingly young white people, with drug problems. But at the same time there's very little initiative to try to address the problem. The Republicans won't do anything because they don't care about poor people and believe them to be responsible for their own failures. The Demcorats won't do anything because it's white, not people of color, who are affected and the Democrats also don't like poor people either, which we clearly see in the utter failure of Democratic leadership to make any meaningful change in areas of deeply entrenched poverty in places like Baltimore. They'd rather spend their time writing pseudo-intellectual articles on some racial bogeyman as the origin of all problems rather than actually tackle the real roots of the problems behind opoids and other drugs. [/quote]

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