(By not addressing the point, I assume you just support the further destruction of our economy and drastically decreased standard of living in the future? Okay

(By not addressing the point, I assume you just support the further destruction of our economy and drastically decreased standard of living in the future? Okay then, moving on to your different point...) Yes, I agree that we need people with the sense to reject empathizing with performative cruelty and the siren song of fascism. It never ends well. At this point, we'd be better off with criminals just on the streets instead of also in the White House. The fish rots from the head. I don't know what you mean by "our government" is doing a poor job at making safe/clean cities. I'm pretty sure we live in different states, and striking a three way balance of carrot-stick-chaos is the job of state and municipal governments. I sidestep the issue by living somewhere less dense, but yes the general inability to scale American cities while maintaining order and individual freedom is a failure of social technology (one that certainly isn't helped by the aforementioned rotting fish head!). On the other hand, cities have been getting better despite all of the sensationalist reporting - I would much rather walk around NYC in the present day than in the 70's. But I'd also expect that a lowered standard of living will make cities worse, so perhaps you should actually care about that issue too.