I don’t want to lead

Your answer in anyway to my question so I’ll just ask it (it also I suppose depends on when you went and if it was different, objectively, from when I did)…

How would you describe the condition of, not the “tourist” locations like forbidden palace and T. Square, but the kind of everyday “Joe Shmoe” side streets?

I’ll just tell you my feeling so it’s not a guessing game…

Dirty.

And I don’t say that like “oh look at the poverty” or anything remote like that…

It was clear that having, say, independent trash removal companies, competing for contracts by being the best at removing trash, is a superior way to take care of that aspect of a city.

Mounds of garbage pushed into corners… mountains of rubble from structures that made it to that phase of demolition but never past for whatever reason.

That trip opened my eyes. But not in anyway that was negative to America’s…well…other than between now and then we’ve been on a tear twards centralization and anti-diversity in terms of business and competition.

It’s amazing to me that I can say the things said in that last paragraph there and people think I’m some alt-right, anarchist who hates America…

No.

It’s “the people” who’ve become anti-American via violent willful ignorance.

God save us.