Sinking Expectations

I remember when we asked about the quality of schools before buying a house. Now we know, whether house shopping or not, the educational outcomes will not be good however better some than most, yet now we need to ask about the quality of the local police department before selecting a house where they might prefer battering rams to open doors over a more civil knock, might prefer shooting to asking questions. I remember when we asked how liberating from wars and violence and oppression our political candidates could imagine and rhetorically explicate, hope to promise. Now we too seldom hope for such vision of lofty and deeply rich heights, and we need to ask the Government Economic Analysts how many more will lose basic health and safety care-receiving, because we cannot choose to care for all in the latest version of the virulently fascist anti-health bill.