> Politicians of all stripes encourage such anxiety Encourage? More like enable. That is, those (i.e., politicians) that benefit and leverage the problem have

> Politicians of all stripes encourage such anxiety Encourage? More like enable. That is, those (i.e., politicians) that benefit and leverage the problem have little incentive to solve the problem (i.e., poverty, mental health, etc.) > But in fact, our era is the safest and least violent in human history. We are less likely to killed, assaulted, or otherwise physically harmed today than ever before. Yes. But that's on average. There are areas where danger is real. Perhaps not relative to history, but relative to where Karen lives the marginalized are highly disadvantaged. I live in NJ. I'm able to get the local news from Philadelphia. There are shootings daily / nightly. Those events are not evenly distributed across PHL.